Category: poetry
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#005: Tomato Soup
We sit in a café opposite one another again He orders tomato soup I order nothing I watch his averted gaze Wondering If he’ll burst into a thousand ice chips If I say what I want to say . The bowl arrives Black pepper, salt Hold the soy sauce He slurps in an anti-clockwise spiral…
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#004: Bit by Bit
Live the waves Let the water undulate And cascade against your skin With your body Float then dip Then dive right in Salty water on tongues The fizz of first love Seaweed entangling the toes Like adolescent dreams that Won’t let go of the person you’ve grown into But the fish munch on, bit by…
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#003: Painting
You are the colour of borrowed books and fidgety feet The colour of last week’s lip print on a mug of ginger tea Impatience painted on the lips of thee Expended time with no receipt. . You are the colour of a love acknowledged Loud in laughter, drowned in delight Textured with our follies, our…
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#002: Chipped Bark
He held sand dirt in his palms Running into the sunset with two tiny fists The contents (like love) escaped his tightening grip like a sieve I’m a romantic And we are just kids trying to climb ancestral trees Searching for where our lives intersect with a legacy
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#001: Show Your Work
Show your work. Your ink-stained fingertips That grip the fountain of youth Speaking sweet-everythings Into the blue That wide-eyed wonder Virtuous view Enticing, inviting That curious you To tango with tense Samba with syntax Create on the page Merge fiction and deep facts If the process has purpose You cannot name it But here you…
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