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Striking and curiously rare
A beauty among the drought
Providence placed you there
A hope among the doubt
A succulent in an espresso cup…
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“My love is, because I love you. I love you, because you are. Such is my love.”
Stray Observational Questions from a Smiling Toothless Wayfarer with a Ripped Shirt
1. Do you lift the weights?
2. Do you eat the protein?
3. Are you from the country? You look like you live out in the country.
4. Are you from Missouri? In the corn?
The Starling
I walked along a quiet cypress grove
Lining a cool clear creek
And there I heard a muddled call
I looked and found a Starling there
Struggling in the roots, with an injured wing
I asked the bird,
“From where have you flown? And what has broken you so?”
The bird replied,
“I have flown from your heart and was broken by your desire.”
When I Saw a Speck of Brown in Your Blue Eyes
I traveled troubled miles
To stand on your shore
And take in, through my aching heart,
Your endless blue, stirring depths
To scan the white sky
Across and down
To where it meets your conflicting tides
I gained and lost the breath of your wild air
As I caught among your blue and dark whirls
A small speck
A distant island
Of brown sand
My soul longed and leapt
And leaned forward to say,
“I want to live there”
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Heart blush
Blood rush
Mind mush
Soul crush
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If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
~EMILY DICKINSON
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It’s all right
We’ve got nowhere else to be tonight
We’ve got nothing between us to hide
It was a pleasant surprise
To be here in your eyes