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Checkerboard Arms

August 21, 2013
By my.freedom.lies.in.free.verse PLATINUM, Tosa, Wisconsin
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my.freedom.lies.in.free.verse PLATINUM, Tosa, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
"I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into a void, and that oblivion is inevitable... and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you." Augustus Waters

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I love you
And the way you stand,
as if waiting for the next blow.


Bent,
Like your wrist as it flicks another stroke
Of a soft lead pencil drawing every curve
Black on white and all in between,

But nothing is straight
If no one is allowed to simply love someone
With a love that is more than just skin deep

And oh! how I wish to kiss your checkerboard arm
But we are all still dripping wet from a rain long past.
And I'm still writing, long since the pen has run out of ink.

© Michelle B., Blairsville, GA

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dancer25 GOLD said...
on Aug. 22 2013 at 3:10 pm
dancer25 GOLD, West Babylon, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"Hope will never be silent'

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This is wonderfully done. It is not fully clear and that makes it so much more deep and mystirious for lack of a better term.