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a reflection

by skyy

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January 04, 2024

IV

oh to be silent when everyone is yelling maybe its not silent, perhaps you’ve lost hearing i can’t imagine a fate worse, just think of all the amazing songs now gone, silenced oh to be quiet by c...


i could tell you that even in my own company i felt movement as if just thinking about it would give legs to my now physical manifestation senses on heightened alert even if all i heard was the...


you go down like a fine liqueur soft silk smooth dare i say with your hand here that speed giving me away you dont know what i am saying anyway [i do get that alot] truth be told on the last day ...


September 28, 2023

sheer

todays your birthday and you’ve been on my mind if we were together for this celebratory day i’d sing you tiny dancer, or maybe i could be talked into birthday from the white album you know i’ve ...


September 18, 2023

shadows

i felt the sharpness of each word you tossed like a gauntlet at my feet tiny daggers draw blood too [there’s never duct tape around when you need it] i was never the best friend or the main love ...


September 15, 2023

coll.ide

dont you know, cant you see. im in pristine condition but really i am doing spiritual somersaults. you so careless with your words mean spirited, malicious. you kill me a thousand times over and ...


August 31, 2023

response

oh how you entrance me weaving me in sunshine and rainbows butterflies on my toes my eyes close and i am safe, secure, warm i don’t dare open my eyes i don’t even want to think how your teeth wou...


August 30, 2023

spir.it

you think whispers will go unheard, unnoticed eyes in shoegaze mode but i see you i hear you my skin screams out for but a touch i inhale you like liqueur oh so near i feel you pulling me close ...


August 24, 2023

confess

you smiled at me as i fumbled words spoken not written there are things you will know how fast do you travel these days i’m not for want when it comes to running, i’ve done my time, my path softe...


August 17, 2023

edge of my ocean

you weave words around me and i fight the urge to close my eyes aware as you encircle me i’ll follow you as you slip words at my feet feasting of your intellect you knew how strong a pull you had...


July 26, 2023

python

soft whispered dreams disguised as low hanging fruit slightly out of reach, oh for a lit path at my feet, no wobbles or pratfalls really, you thought it was as easy as willing it so. there’d be ...


July 11, 2023

words, lost

i hear you i said to the night my words lost in the dark i know you heard me recognizing my wandering bumbled thoughts i never tell you all the times you are on my mind or the times i pull you cl...


June 08, 2023

look where we've been

as we converged i lifted my finger and traced my words as they fell off your lips how do you do that i wondered how do i speak in your voice nothing gets to me it doesn’t hit too home but i’m fla...


i move you move my feet move in rhythm hand in hand you always feel like whispers dancing in a rainstorm we move the way we always did so soft so slow so smooth sometimes i feel so obvious


it was more of an observation than an accusation still your eyes told me you once again felt my sting sometimes i wander off and still seem surprised when i return and the tip of my fingers still...


January 13, 2023

Arrive, without travelling

she placed her hand against my heart and closed her eyes to an unheard rhythm the warmth of her hand against me did i imagine in that very moment we synched i felt her closer to me than if our l...


December 29, 2022

Gabriel, lost

i looked up and saw her. you know the scene in films, where their eyes meet and you’d swear that not only was time standing still, but that they suddenly had the power to say more in a look than ...


we’re too fatigued to dream the lyrics are off and i’m weaving about the chorus wasn’t i about to make a breach anyway back to the crime the hero wanders imagine not even hearing the sirens wake...


December 28, 2021

no thunder

i’m sitting in the back seat of our car there is a thunderstorm all around us loud, everywhere you seemed unfazed but she and i are on the floor kneeling we aren’t praying i am older, its my jo...


May 26, 2021

camou.flage

You came into my life like a whisper, a beforethought. The first time I heard you I felt your words in me, digging-into-my-dirt felt you. I remember thinking that few things surprise, entrance an...


September 08, 2020

Wanting

in the darkness i can hear taste feel you breathing your fingertips in figure eights dancing over my skin and when you want to hear me louder you’ll dig those perfectly manicured fingernails in ...


July 13, 2020

still sweet tonight

what could be more lovely than to hear a pretty melody with lyrics that make you all warm and toasty until it slips in between your ribs and just rips your still beating heart out you look at ...


July 08, 2020

travelling

if you knew being happy and sad aren’t two different paths but the start and the finish of the same road would you walk would you run would you run there or run the other way if you were a paul w...


June 22, 2020

full circle

i know you want to go on ahead catch up to your friends catch up to him please its all over his face and yours yesterday it was well yeah i know you remember its a warmsummerday the windows rolle...


June 17, 2020

Whiskey, no Bourbon

she laughed at what she called my old man music my hand rolling the whiskey i had in my glass contemplating a clever retort leaning in, her hand held my face as she kissed me ohsolightly taking...


Book Description

there are things seen and unseen. do you ever want to rewind and say what you didnt say? not say what you said?