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  Supine

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  Day 1. I wake up. I am me without you. There is a witch’s tears on my pillow; a matitunal glow outside my window. Day 2. I wake up. I am me without you. I look in the mirror. My mouth is sewn shut. I am silent as a star. Day 3. I wake up. I am me without you. My footsteps pound t...
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  New Romantic

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  In this place where all girls are faceless lest they're beautiful, a girl like me is invisible. But every time I see you, my schoolgirl heart surges with some mad hope. And centripetally, all those things that a girl needs that I do not allow myself to want have come to mean you, you, who remai...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Flicker Of Light

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  I turned around and saw He was looking at me. My heart paused; immobile. I didn't notice at first. Sipping on his drink, He held a pleasant scene. Ebony curls, earnest looks. Brown eyes were bashful. I smiled in my heart. There was a song playing, My thoughts somewhat wavered. ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Wolverine's Heart

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  there is a hollow in my heart where the walls reverberate your name (in the quiet of a derelict temple) the Mermaid howls, the Cailleach weeps on the Griever's throne, and the Girl In The Storm coils up like a bullied animal. the hollow is where everything good and happy falls into....
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  Crossing Novembers

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  2047 days. All I ever catch myself thinking about while I'm lonely looking out the window of the train as it goes through like a noisy shadow in this strange place which you are not in, is you. Just you. Some nights, much like this one, I imagine what you're doing, where you are and ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Cigarettes and Tangerine

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  (the nearness of you invoked a loneliness i never knew before) Only when I sleep, am I awake. Sleep, and reels of thoughts spin on infinitesimal hope and sound waves lock with ropes of tears Sleep, and I'm drifting on the black waves of slumber, dreaming of your opaque eye...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Last August

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  A night after a heavy August rain, the warmth shooting through chest when you arrive and the undeniable hummingbird beats of the heart. Put that day in a poem lest forgotten; the rain-perfumed roads. you in a flight of laughter; a smile too profound for tears. The shape of your profile tr...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Dream Catcher

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  through the fogged glass, i look for your manifestation; and here, you left a mark. amongst knolls of bluebells, those snowdrop fields, you, the songs of early birds, chaste beads of raindrops; quaint reveries, repeated. sonorous, my foible dependence... you, my dream catcher but th...
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  Hold On, Love

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  Cruising in the cool, closed car under the just-before-midnight sky, wishing I could open your heart and read it like a book. But life is always like this: Your fingertips meet with your lover's and you learn that silence can be heard. The barista carefully slides the coffee across the table to y...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Body of Love

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  Take me down to your river. I am the azurite voice of the waters. I am the light burning within the stars. I am the body of Love. Pray Melaina not touch me, pray Thanatos not choose me, pray may Somnus guard me. The wind will part my garments. It will run its' fingers through my hair. ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Moonlight Mile

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  In a seam of silence where the night cradles the world inside its blue heart, I open a vein. Stars align, like the freckles in your eyes. Through my window I have seen the white stars of snow falling. Sometimes the image of you passes by like the shadow of a train. My sight goes tr...
• Poetry > Ballad
  Litany

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  Grief is a sheet of rain falling on a lachrymose ocean and my soul but a lonely shore facing heavenward towards an ever-night sky, only living by a glimpse of sunlight cosseted in the pallid Moon Sending wings of prayers heavenward, alas Heaven is beyond what my soul can reach In a...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Moonlight Mile

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  In a seam of silence where the night cradles the world inside its blue heart, I open a vein. Stars align, like the freckles in your eyes. Through my window I have seen the white stars of snow falling. Sometimes the image of you passes by like the shadow of a train. My sight goes tr...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Self Placatory

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  Waiting behind the door for too long to hear you breathing on the other side hoping that you would anytime now knock (and i would answer) but nothing collides and it hurts like getting a placatory pat on the back after losing and hearing “Try again next time” as if it could...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Stifled Bud

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  I remember a young flower perfumed with rain, rain water gathered in cups of frost-crisped leaves. An orphaned butterfly capering under the silver edge of the moon. Yes, I used to watch and say the night is wonderful. You'd smile and say nothing lasts forever. Everyday then, this wo...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Wonder That Was You

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  There is a cypress tree beside your headstone of argent scribe and obscurants of the mourning cloaked moon outline adumbral limbs of this tree I am supine beneath. From between the boughs the emblems flash abysmal signals and I feel like a widow weaving yarns of despair as she sits ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Sayuri's Dance In His Remembrance

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  It was a funereal afternoon. My thoughts were like waves that bled into a wash, to a windswept cadence. My body heaved with sorrow as I started moving to my heart's song. I imagined him watching me, and my movements took on a depth as if I was interacting with him. My arms swept acr...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  You and I

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  i You came like a rush of wind. A cantabile, in the desolate space of my soul. Then, you are a windswept cadence. That widowed wind howling in the desert of my heart. ii I saw rings of starlight in your auburn eyes. I should have recognized instead, that the gaze of t...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Beautiful Spring and Snow Maiden

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  I sit on a griever's throne lulled by a broken world crying itself to sleep. Singing verses of melancholia when those sepia dreams hanging behind my eyelids are sliding into the yesterdays when you were a portrait of pulchritude. Barefooted on the shoreline, you were dancing to...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Rising

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  Tonight, my heart longs to speak the black language of my sentiments. Crush the mosaic of grievances cosseted beneath my skin and recall the possibility that ies on the bridge of the tongue - to find a peace I could rise to. I want to break the mould and find in its' malachite he...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Crossing Three Novembers

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  In silence, I find no pride or problems. Like writing letters where there speaks no reply, and staying with the moon until the stars shut their eyes. Gazing at you behind my window, that gap in the constellation where a star used to be. Hoping my dreams could reach up to meet you. The...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Self Placatory

  

  By CammyCalliope, Georgetown, Malaysia

  Waiting behind the door for too long to hear you breathing on the other side hoping that you would anytime now knock (and i would answer) but nothing collides and it hurts like getting a placatory pat on the back after losing and hearing "try again next time" as if it...