As warmth beams through your eyes
Our bodies intertwine simultaneously, it feels like eternity
us two, me and you,
uninterrupted—
A garden filled with sunflowers that tickles your feet
Feels … Read More
Category: Student Work (Page 3 of 4)
Where love in masses should belong
They have zero boundaries, oneself an object forbidden
within lust, the soul released
forgiven-
eyes watching the world from afar
songs from the mockingbird … Read More
(Revised Negative Poem, the first draft follows).
Darkness, restless, relinquishes me without taking
my sharpness from neither constraint.
After midnight, the prison frees me from my shackles,
sharpened by the … Read More
Before I was not yours and
yours from some temporarily kinda twain soul
owned with forbiddance, the soul is continuous
seamlessness-
that earth closed unlike the public knowledge out the … Read More
They say happiness will find you,
But I think sadness will find you too,
It sneaks up on you in darkness,
Just when you think you’ve made it through,
It … Read More
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with … Read More
What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
“Life is but an empty dream!”
For the soul is dead that slumbers,… Read More
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell … Read More
By Maya Angelou
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size
But when I start to tell them,
They think … Read More
Solitude
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough … Read More
