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  Emergency Contact

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  In case of an accident: It's O positive, no allergies but pollen and grammatical errors Only (official) medical condition being asthma - I never could stop to breathe - Because those other, complicated issues don't apply here, The diseases that I don't need a doctor to explain t...
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  Eight Years Too Late

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  Too late I was reminded of those words I shouldn't say I only saw the dam once it had crumbled into pieces Once the waters were bearing down on me with unforgiving force The door that always should be kept locked tight opened Because I’d forgotten that those words held the key I only not...
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  Angry Words

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  Angry words in a text message that buzzed quietly Suddenly glad, for once, for the distance For the rift that divides the two separate worlds Glad, suddenly, that I wouldn't have to go home to that To the angry face that matches the angry words The raised voice and threatening stance that ...
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  From Careful Lips

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  These words are meant to be whispered Born into this boisterous world with barely a sigh Drifting from careful lips to straining ears Their fragile wings flutter with every breath of sound While they hold their course determinedly through the stormy seas of noise And they threaten to fall apart...
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  Hope - a poem

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  She watches from behind her glass window Pulling the curtains across to shut out the light But he sits beneath with his back against the wall Humming a lullaby...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Nonsensical

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  I can hear everything you're saying The implications of this conversation are completely clear You made your neatly outlined points and I listened You spoke your evidence calmly and I sat composedly But now the truth rings in my ears My eyes ache from looking seriously and politely into yo...
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  Note to a Friend

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  So the words that had been bumbling shapeless in my brain Finally navigated their way onto a page After weeks of stewing and teaming up with friends The emotions flowed out into tangible ideas that I tried to express Through the medium of blue-inked pen on blue-lined paper Carving out every let...
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  The Call of the Wind

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  The bedroom window rattles violently as an unnatural scream rises up from the ominously dark night outside. “Mom!” Penelope shrieks from under the protection of the covers, her reedy voice shrill with terror but muffled by her blankets. “Mom!” “I’m coming, Penelope!” An answering voi...
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  Never Alone

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  Ashamed to be near you To be affiliated with you and your words I know how they can sting and throb How much more it hurts when ringed in alone Now, reliving that pain, I watch from the sidelines With fearful eyes and a timid voice stuck in my throat I see myself in his face and the hunch of h...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Intangible Time

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  Yesterday is gone Tomorrow never here Today's always too late Or sometimes all too near A month away seems far too long So much time to lose But years go by with just a blink Suddenly all old news Time escapes our desperate grasp It cannot be explained It leaps, it slogs, it dance...
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  Heartbreak

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  It seems that the most heartbreaking romances Live in books With their passionate love and impossible obstacles With wrenching tears of agony and voices afire with fury Touchingly beautiful and unbearably sad Yet somehow it all works out in the end Wounds heal, broken threads tie, promises are...
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  Letters From You

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  To see my name Carefully printed in block, all capital letters And address in wobbly numbers of curls To open the envelope Sliding my finger under the taped-shut flap Hoping to leave it as if unopened for rereading To pull out the paper Feeling the jagged edges where it was ripped out Gl...
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  They Failed Me

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  That day I walked in With wounds on my skin Angry red lines that burned They were fresh and new Deliberate too Punishments I had earned My clothes couldn't hide The proof that I'd tried To end hurt with more pain The pattern laid bare The secret to share On my body a stain...
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  Sonámbulo

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  She sang of a sleepwalker in Grenada Sweet voice teasing notes from the evening air Guitar humming in her hands While she offered open arms I walked through those streets in which I'd never set foot I stared, entranced, watching the words flow And feeling within them the absence of you L...
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  Moving Ahead

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  Something new in our lives A sentence begins with unfamiliar words Perhaps the start of a paragraph Or maybe this new something stretches for a page Even a whole chapter But though we write our own tale There is no way to read ahead A theme may be toyed with, dismissed in an instant A charac...
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  Hallways

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  Familiar hallways Cluttered with a surprisingly large number of people I recognize The shuffle sidestep "no, after you" dance I hadn't forgotten Shortcuts I find in some slightly dusty maps drawn in my mind Ready with my notebooks and pens at the slightest mention Easily navigati...
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  Day to Remember

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  I was too young to understand it Or remember it My earliest memories of it are from stories Recollections from others, years later I grew up in the shadow of it My childhood held the first few memorial days Moments of silence in my elementary school classroom The truth unfolded more as I adva...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Lonely When You're Here

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  Seems like it's worse to see you After a long time apart When we barely have time to say hello Then goodbye My heart twinges painfully While we waste our fast disappearing moments I am missing you for when you will be gone It makes me hate the idea of you You who have stolen away my hap...
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  Broken

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  It's frustrating when they break their promises The ones who also promised to keep their promises You really should have expected it Any promise like that begs to be torn apart But every time it happens it's like you'd forgotten It still clamps your lips shut and turns your head ...
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  Darlin', I'm Here

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  Darlin' When you feel you aren't much And you're sick of being you Stuck in a shell too small Or too big Painted a color chosen for you Your features derived from a random Pick and choose Your body imperfect When you wish you could tear at your face Rip off what others tell ...
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  Sailboats in the Sky

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  Cloud sailboats Float past on the sea of sky While wishes wave on green stalks In skies of shivering grass Huddled for sunshine sharing In the empty bed chill of the lonely wind Stoic trunks stand with arms outstretched Forever watching the changing horizon For that long-lost childhood memor...
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  The Eyes of Your Reflection

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  What does it mean When you can't meet the eyes Of your own reflection? When you're afraid to look Terrified of what you will see In your own sight Ashamed of the fear Embarrassed by the fool That you are making out of yourself A fool you can only feel And be You can't see t...
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  If the World Died

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  If the world died Would the people despair? Sobbing as they cried, "This just isn't fair!" If the world died Would the people look 'round? Searching for a guide For a sight, for a sound If the world died Would they not understand? Pale-faced and wide-eyed Desperate...
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  When You Can't

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  That feeling when you want to cry But can't When you look away And blink When you lean your head against a wall And sigh When you rest your face in your hands And breathe When you gaze into the distance And dream But your eyes are dry The tears won't fall The day moves past An...
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  Nothing

  

  By bluebird943, Portland, OR

  Watching the moon With you beside me The night is cold I shiver You offer no warmth The night is dark I cannot see You are blinded Watching the moon With you beside me Wanting to share The beautiful sight Of spectacular brightness in the sky But I say nothing I know the words...