ALTKim Addonizio, from “Happiness Report,” in Now We’re Getting Somewhere [ID in alt text]
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My thoughts are clouds today
They might rain or rage
Might turn into a rhapsody
Translated into lighting
Or a melodious thunder storm
My thoughts might be the casted
Sky today, and bring shade
To the scorching heart of mine...................
everytimeyousaygoodbye ©
“When I looked up at the stars, I saw us. You were the stars and I was the dark sky behind you”
-Jenn Bennett, Starry Eyes
A world of light
Where roses burn, soft petals lie scattered,
Exhibiting the bane of worldly weight
In their clinging to colours, damned to fade.
For a second there, I thought love mattered,
However, I see this miserly state
As proof of its expendable design.
Once purpose has been served, I am afraid
What love established, life will see battered,
Until all there’s left is a ruined slate.
However, that rose was never betrayed;
She never was claimed in ‘forever mine’;
She never did ‘want’, let alone too much.
She withers with grace, for she does not pine
A world of light, vivified by your touch.
—
16-8-2022, M.A. Tempels ©
There are centuries inside of me I’m too young to have lived, but sometimes far away can still be too close, and long ago can feel like yesterday. I ruin beautiful things because I am not one. you’re everywhere, but I can’t feel your fingers on my skin. if only I could be the sea, I would surround you wherever you swim. I don’t know how many heartbeats you have left, but I want to hear all of them. when you are not with me, neither am I.
You’re a beautiful storm and I long to get caught in the rain.
Mermaid
aren't you fatigued of those screams
or is it your only drink that can fill your glass
I wish it would overflow to the point of breaking
that a flood would bring you to me here
but the sun is obscured
by an eternal crepuscular curtain
where its rays are just nautical flashlights
and despite this profound drunkard existence
the depths in here sparkle like precious stones
that is not a tempting lie to pull you down
I am a mermaid who whispers naked truth
and hope your mind would believe her heart
I know you want to escape, life hasn't been easy
You tried and tried in vain to find your own path,
But I could show you how to swim through your nightmares
Every night, I could sing to you beneath the stars,
We could hide together at the bottom of the ocean
I'll bring the chalices, drink up so we'll stay young forever,
Make these dark waters finally bow down to us
Does it sound tempting, my love
A world where we never have to say goodbye?
--- alex-a-roman and h.harouche
@alex-a-roman my friend, Thank you for the inspiration and for this lovely collab ❤.
His words in bold-italic. Mine in italics
Kindness in faces of familiarity are the most dangerous to love.
They morph so easily into a splatter.
And it’s terrifying to know what it looks like.
How I wish they knew the love I held for them. How I wish I could have done more.
I would have been every sun and soft emotion. I would have been the deepest pocket of the ocean, to be the sanctum of summer tears - hid and frozen. I would have been the steadiest mountain to stay strong against every growing tide.
And if I had known that they would fall for heaven that day, then I would have been every fabric of their parachute.
I would have been everything I wasn't.
But now I am nothing,
but a funeral suit.
- The madness of grief
be your own universe
—
be your own universe.
I was my own once,
expanding
so vast,
stretching so far
my little mind could never explore all of it
but what it did know was
it saw such remarkable beauty when it gazed up in the skies
It found many secrets of who I really am
just observing the stars
showing life a love somewhere up above
I passed along the gift
and broke the curse
Be your own universe.
.•.peako green•.•
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