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The Harvest MoonThe lunar eclipse, the harvest moon
Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing
A vast balloon,
Till it takes off and sinks upward
To lie in the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon

The Harvest moon has come,
Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon
And earth replies all night, like a deep drum.

So people can't sleep,
so they go out where elms and oak trees keep
A kneeling vigil, in a religious hush
The harvest moon has come!

And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep
Stare up at her petrified, while she swells
Filling heaven, as if red hot, and sailing
Closer and closer like the end of the world

till the gold fields of sti

Atoning with BloodI look down
At my horrid skin
And close my eyes
As the past sets in

The scars once cuts
To take the pain away
Now the cause
That's there to stay

I remember the blood
How bright it shone
And for all the deeds
I had to atone

The marks still burn
So again I look at my leg
And for scars to disappear
I silently beg

Savannah Greenhalgh
July 27, 2012

Summer Breezethe sun arises too initial,
throbbing like a sore headache
with heat to laud summer official
leaving us beneath its wake

thus, like water we are flowing
in and out of midnight hours
with only slivers o'er us, glowing,
vivifying like rain showers

you are the movement, I the air
upon which our comfort rides
in cycle - which is only fair -
growing, falling, like the the tides

old flames will have due chance to burn
until the winter gets its turn.

ashit escapes
from your lips
like a muted song -
one lone melody
to catch
your breath
and trill along
your cheekbones -
an inhale of
temptation
(my weary fossil love, my sin)
an exhale of thin-fingered
hope
but no note
to carry on

SmallSometimes, embarrassing things happen to you. Things that people laugh at. They brush it off carelessly, not even checking to see if you're okay.

You're so small, no one would even know you were serious if you said you weren't okay.

Remember when we went to the movie theater to see the Avengers?

"One ticket for the Avengers," you said, handing the man with glasses and a greasy ponytail your money.

He said, "You need an adult with you if you're under eleven."

It was quick, but I think I saw your mood falter. You frowned, our friends laughed, and then you got over it.

"Yeah, I'm nine," you joked.

If there's one thing in particular I admi

Dream~Dreams~
Replies of wide eyes
And finger to lips –
Hands beckoning me to follow.
Silence is golden,
But the rays of the full moon
Are silver.
Creeping forward with stealth,
And pulling the blanket of leaves back
Reveals what made my heart clench.
Suspicions made true,
My mind's not deceived.
In the most tender of ways,
The sweetest smile
Visibly glows in the dark.
And across from that smile is another,
With train tracks
Running through it.
The smiles meet.
My heart chokes.
My palms sweat.
My eyes flutter open.
I wish on the stars above me
That I could call it a dream.

Inside OutA warm summer
in prison, late morning

orange on gray.
A forest held behind

barbed wire
leans in, ready to hear

the whispers of
guards and their keys.

Smuggled by the wind
is one low whistle,

then another.

haiku of late autumn

window
shutting out the chill
moonlight spills in

the kind of destruction only i deserve.i'm sitting on a throne of thread spools
with technicolor knots wound around my wrists,
and i thought it would be enough to hold me together.

i am weak - thread-lines etched into my skin
because i always tie myself too tight,
convinced that if i add an inch,
i'll melt between cotton molecules, liquefied.

and i figured that i'd finally gotten it right;
between the bulges of my skin and bindings,
i'd managed to shut myself up, and shut you out.

i even installed double-paned glass into every window
so that if the wind ever came to welcome me home,
i wouldn't have to chatter my teeth,
like I was pretending to converse.

it wasn't en

how to become treasurei. figureheading
dawn smothers
my uncovered eyes

the possibility prime
as the sea's shine

sing me the designs
of isolated isles

for I plan
to return
with a smile

ii. the expectant sextant
made to behold
and be held

I measured the distance
between where I was
and where you dwelled

when last the stars
unknotted

the current seems
atangle, inexplicably

have I dexterity enough
for the course I plotted?

iii. assailed
I caught wind
of oasis

adjacent
to previous havens

my ears caught the tune
of the sirens in bloom

and my tongue
cursed my stasis

iv. a love of ankles
drowning
in a foreign body

my lungs must drink
les

either wayshe dances like a raindrop,
collapses on the ground,
and all of her bones shatter,
made from thin, liquid glass,
her voice ripples on the surface
and it screams
the soft syllables pirouetting on your eardrums
her fingertips tapping
can you hear them?
they are cotton balls
being dropped on the asphalt
can you hear them?
(it's the wind carrying her feet across the air)
and she dances like a raindrop.
you can catch her
and she can shatter in your palms.

numbering the steps.I'd like to count the number of times you fucked me over, but I only have ten fingers and toes.

-

I never mentioned this but I really should have.
Because it was so hard that you were blowing me off, especially after the third/fourth/fifth/fourteenth time.

Or in September, when your eyes could look everywhere but mine – when I finally stopped telling you, because I knew you weren't listening.

Oh, and you killing yourself last April. There's that.

(Your note said: "Tell Scarlett I'm sorry." And oh God, Charlie, please believe me, I tried so hard to make it right, I did.)

-

Fourteen days, two hours, and fifty-nine minutes: how long

POP! goes the Bubble .I'm twirling in ecstasy, feeling high on life,
almost as if my fingertips are caressing the sky;

I'm living in a bubble, think the air around is cursed,
so please don't rush in heart-first like a fool

and make it burst.

Sapphire CastlesLavished in celestial streams of rich azure,
her voice weaves thru star-systems with song
Depthless eyes fabled in mystery furnish worlds,
as conquests of time fold into silence...
She is the mystique of the cosmos — 'elixir immortale,
embalming the wilderness of dreams
O'er a thousand skies captive in the fever of her ocean;
my breath anchors, where a life-time of souls drown
in brushed whispers of candle flame

Kingdoms of passion unveil in ethereal tides,
as the sun traces her finger tips over my skin
Burning in Pleiadian mythology — I reach into vistas
of indigo towards the lips of a Goddess
Unto sapphire castles I s

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The Candlemaker

by ~blackdahlia911, Aug 18, 2012, 12:22:14 AM
Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

_{Heat,
the space between cold and ice,
sweat is raining down your telephone pole neck,
now it's even hotter, pushing 90,
the air is thick and begins to clog your lungs,
dragging September's fog through your trachea,
smoldering your larynx and taking control of your entire body,
burning down bones like candle wicks,
now you're a waxen pool on the bedroom floor,
but wait, tender hands start to take a hold of you,
molding you a new spine made of incense,
hips out of honey,
and a heart out of the horizon,
beating, burning slow,
you release a floral smoke,
drawn in, between the candlemaker's cigarette licked lips.}

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