Poetry Corner Friday: I need you like…
I only need you
like I need sunlight,
which I’m sure I could live without…
I only need you
like I need sunlight,
which I’m sure I could live without…
This New-York-on-an-early-autumn-night scene could have been painted by an artist with a curious imagination, and here I am surrounded by it, living it, breathing it.
...read more here…Your face flickers
before my increasingly blurry vision.
I want you…
We sat together in the dark bar with our hands in each other’s hands. His face was aglow with appreciation as he watched the band and sang along with blues covers even I didn’t know the words to. His tie (he had dressed up for me) was undone and draped around his neck. Dear God, the boy was beautiful.
...read more hereI feel your warm lips
calming the chilly primal shivers
that stiffen my breasts…
But it was so strange… I couldn’t even believe it as it was happening. It took all of my will power to stop the words from pouring effervescently out of my mouth, to stop them from bubbling up and betraying me.
“I’m losing my mind,” I kept saying over and over.
...read more hereYou make me lowercase.
You make me small.
Somewhere in the dark glow of Your brightness
i think i lost my upper case.
you tasted like
the african gods
before they met jesus…
There’s no title. I sent it to him in an email on the day I wrote it with a caption that said simply “To [his name].” I don’t know what I should call it… let’s discuss.
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