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  Heartbreak

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  It’s finding out that the person you love so much can’t save you. It’s realizing that you used to stay awake dreaming of their smile, and now you’re crying yourself to sleep. You discover that you’re hanging on, simply because you don’t know how to let go. It’s losing yourself tryin...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Sweet Darling Girl

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  In the storm she stood, lightning ripped the sky Grateful for the rain so no one could see her crying Not letting go, clutching the pieces of her broken soul It’s all she has, her hope torn to shreds, she nears the edge Always afraid of falling, and all her lucky stars are gone. He wanted t...
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  Winter Nights

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  is this any way for you to spend your winter nights? emotions hibernating never emerging hesitating, always pending and undermining every desire that craves to have a place with you everything winding, twisted by a knave of foreboding into knots let the opportunity pass you by sigh, lie yo...
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  Tightrope

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  letting on and letting go cause you better know now that this is real as of now there's no turning back we're getting pretty good at taking chances there's no one I’d rather walk the rope with you never thought it'd go this far I never thought I’d be so lost in you but it’s here now so...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  The Morning Sun

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  the morning sun is a miracle on your lips that sing to me like birds while dawn is breaking to look into your eyes is to gaze out onto the earth through amber glass and see summertime and time stops and all we know is each other's breath spiraling into the air like every moment overflow...
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  Tempest Tossed

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  Tempest tossed, I am torn Can’t you set my sails again? Can’t you hold me again? Like the waves caress the shore I am reaching for you But all I’m finding is the storm Tempest tossed, I am torn Between a love I crave And a love that is not meant to be Why did you turn away, And sin...
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  Optimist

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  close your eyes; you never see anything quite the same the second time. you look at a fun house mirror, yet you're the only one who sees what's really here. I see you on the corner and I know your face; I have to step twice as much to keep up with your skipping pace. you throw your head back a...
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  Pacing

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  I'm on the floor and you're walking all over me as you pace back and forth, unsure, I am breaking I am pieces of glass under your bare feet yet you show no sign of pain on your face I am crunching and cracking under your stride can't you see me breaking? can't you see what your pacing does to ...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Oh Boy

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  i want to believe in something, and you’re the first thing that comes to mind; you taught me it’s about what you’ve already lost, not what you find. and that rainy days don’t matter none in heaven, as long as it isn’t your angel who’s crying. that saying sorry is at best a waste o...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Little Fire

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  you struck a match, just to see how long it could last the flame, you knew, as brilliant as her smile licked at your hands, she won't let it burn you, anyhow just a spark next to the light she gives off now. oh, angel of yours, love with all your heart and all your soul, warm palm against p...
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  Ghosts

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  tonight, tonight is almost over tonight, tonight, tonight will never end that constant pressure never relenting, everlasting your words are suffocating me tonight all i know is i can’t sleep tossing and turning and i would do anything, anything for you but i don’t know why you do th...
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  A Heightened View

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  do the mountains know you're calling? do they know you're coming to climb their peaks? the only way you keep from falling is to climb as high as you can reach. did you know, that everything you touch turns to gold? you're peering at the heavens through the sun, their amber door. your feet can...
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  In Everything

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  you are everywhere...to me you are the clouds in the sky the white foam on the sea you are a summer flower full in bloom you are the subtle glint in my eye the cold chill of a smile-filled room you are the breath in my lungs you are the light through the trees the notes in any song i'...
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  Almost Broken

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  the thing is we all know where you stand. when a line is drawn across the room you’re on the side closest to the door so when the conflict starts you can run. it doesn’t matter what’s going on, you’d rather take flight than stay and fight. disguise yourself so no one will see you the...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Writing

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  The writer's mind is filled with incoherent, intangible thoughts. Somewhere in her head, underneath present pressures, ideas form slowly, their design dim, fuzzy, slowly focusing, like the sound of a worn-out radio tuning into the station. At that moment inspiration's spark – swift, lucid, free ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Gravestones

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  Staring at that house again, I didn't want to go in. My sweat-soaked palm clutched the handle of my beat-up leather suitcase. Somehow, knowing all I had was in there wasn't nearly as scary as the thought of walkin' in that house. When you run from a place the way I ran from that house, you don't ...
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  Small Joy

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  I sat at a small table in The Wildflower Bread Company, drumming my fingers on the wood while I waited anxiously for my food. I tried to sip sparingly at my fresh lemonade, but I knew I would drink at least most of it by the time I got my food. I looked toward the chefs. Goodness, what was taking...
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  Midnight Loving

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  kisses on her neck leave her undone you're close to claiming the prize you now have won her hands on your shoulders pull you closer even though all you wanted to begin with was to hold her you never get exactly what you ask for but that only means you should simply ask for more come on now, ke...
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  Amanda's Poem

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  it is the kind of love, that is simply understood not merely spoken of. it is the kind of bond, that finds itself and blooms and cannot be thrust upon. it is the kind of bravery, that forces you to be courageous when you are too scared to be. and you can be sure, that this raw emotion is the clos...
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  Amanda's Poem

  By Cozette J., Mesa, AZ

  it is the kind of love, that is simply understood not merely spoken of. it is the kind of bond, that finds itself and blooms and cannot be thrust upon. it is the kind of bravery, that forces you to be courageous when you are too scared to be. and you can be sure, that this raw emotion is the clos...