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  waking

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  love is here in the room with us- your skin smells like sleep and your breath like coffee and your eyes are crusted half shut with morning and sheet marks leave red, sunken road maps across your warm face. love is here in the room with us- I know because you're the most beautiful thing ...
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  your eyes

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  In the dredges of your coffee cup I saw a faint shimmer Mixed among the last grounds And it seems you had brought up a bit of your soul And what a lovely color it was until, By mistake, I washed it down the sink, Distracted by daydreaming of Your eyes....
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  Spinning Top

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  They say the earth is Spinning in space Alone Whirling away.. I disagree. It is hanging from a string Webbed spider silk, shimmering like stardust, Spun by a great arachnid who Sits on the moon and makes sure her Handiwork serves its purpose- We are sitting atop a giant hourglass The sand...
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  silhouette

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  Remind me how we danced- Bare feet or tap shoes, Midnight or three in the afternoon, Drinking lemonade or sweet tea, The smell of rain or fresh baked cookies, details we can’t remember Remind me how we laughed- Secretly or flamboyantly, Shoulders hunched or heads thrown back, Shaking sil...
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  Love on Monday Mornings

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  I would love you forever and any days that come after that. even on Monday mornings when no one is lovable, you would be to me....
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  A Summary of Us

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  Warm eyes are home in the winter and cold eyes are sweet in the summer. It’s all well and good that eyes are the windows to the soul, but what of the other parts of us? What of bitten lips and feet overcome with wanderlust? What of palms tattooed in deep pink crescent moons where fingers ...
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  Sunken

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  I loved him, but not as much as the sea. She, being far too fond of him (and of his ship and of his crew), pulled them beneath her borders, white sails slipping beneath white caps of her passion. Mermaids sang them to sleep on a bed of kelp and sunken dreams....
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  Knots

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  I am struck And I am stuck And I am Whirling away and Twirling towards Fate but Its changing every single Sentence I am a pencil And I am tapping knee I am a Guitar I am a piano I am music and I am Fingers that Play the melody and I am chaos! I am a girl with words all Choked and...
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  Memories

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  City lights invite you to Reminisce as the Bus bumps along the Road And your face is warm But your hands are cold And you expected tears but For now you just Bask in the glow And the lights are off and All around are whispered conversations And soft snores Of people hugging blankets An...
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  Love.

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  Oh Irrational Uncontrollable Butterflies Bursting from my Stomach to my Heart Up my throat Please Be Still....
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  Coincidence

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  Notice how our hands fit perfectly together the spaces between our fingers are just right. You can't think that this is just coincidence....
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  Some Things Should Be Left

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  Why would you catch a firefly Or dust over long residing footprints Why would you freeze a moonbeam Or cage a wandering soul Why would you batter down stars Or play quietly a fortissimo piece Why would you paint the rainbow monochrome Or smash through truthful mirrors Why would you turn away...
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  Why We Walk

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  What if all we can do is fly- On broken feet, run, take flight Open mouths and scream To the endless eternity above us. What if we were meant to soar But long ago Our fairy dust was stolen In an attempt to keep us grounded So we wouldn’t pollute the Sun, too. What if soon we’ll shine...
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  You Chose The City

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  I bet you’re somewhere far away, In a city with bright lights in the night A place with racing cars and Loud sounds And people (you always loved the people). I bet that you don’t Think of me, Here, Across the country, In the same old town where we both grew up With the same people ...
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  Daylight

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  Sometimes I stretch up and stand on my toes and let sunshine touch my fingertips and I cup the crescent moon in my hand and bite my lip as I let wind blow through my hair and I skip along on wrinkled leaves and find bliss in golden daylight....
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  Iridescent

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  Do you have dreams? I think I've seem them- They passed my window, late at night, while I was watching the moon. They were beautiful- iridescent and wonderfully imagined. I wish your pretty pictures filled my head too. Fairytales may be a nice refuge and rainbows make me glad....
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  Secrets

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  Doesn't it seem you could whisper secrets into the night, blow them into flames, so your voice would float up as smoke taking refuge among stars in a moonless time of night and all your broken promises would stop haunting you- stop whispering, teasing, crying- because you have been h...
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  our island

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  We made an ocean. We dreamed it out of tears and rain and July afternoon lemonade. And in it, we put an island. A white sand island with green trees and brown bark and a vibrant color scheme. And on that island, we built a mountain. A tall mountain, a huge, proud, cloud-defying mountain. Its peak ...
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  green eyes

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  There’s something wicked in the green eyes. Something cruel about the emeralds that with each blink sing out you’ll-love-me-you’ll-love-me. Brown eyes fall for tricks like that, brown eyes fall for boys like that. Brown eyes try to reduce things to science- “it’s okay, we learned...
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  Dog-Eared

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  You should not give your heart to these hands; they're too small, too cold to hold it well. I may trip, stumble and fumble with your soul. I may return your love to you all bruised, dog-eared, and coffee-stained, like a good book that was far overdue....
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  dark eyes

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  Dark eyes circumvent the feelings. Dodging, ducking, chasing. I’ve seen it before, I’ll see it again, dark eyes on lonely nights running on rooftops and along crumbling tops of wild old walls long since overgrown with forest. Dark eyes hopping into sailboats, one hand on the ropes and a matchbox...
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  matches

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  He asked her to burn the city. She did so willingly, with blind eyes she lassoed the sun. She pulled it down to their level and set the skyscrapers alight with the temperamental dynamite of left-behind dreams. The moon was lonely in the sky, the stars were no comfort when the brightest of his life h...
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  calendar

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  I loved you in February’s clutches, when we were ready for snow to melt. I loved you in March when sodden grass appeared in spurts like evading pixies, but appeared nonetheless. I loved you in April when flowers poked through the earth and in May, when those buds began to bloom into moons and morn...
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  education

  

  By ubiety, Byron Center, MI

  they were learning each other. figuring each other out. there was no textbook, no equation, no handbook, no rules. they were trying. experimenting, testing, working. they learned each other by trial and error, secret by story by fear by passion, baby steps, then bigger, then bigger –but ...