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August 19, 2016
By caiagab SILVER, Bayport, New York
caiagab SILVER, Bayport, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. you're considered bizarre or eccentric. to me, it just means you know who you are." -tim burton


miles of endless restlessness and hands tied
together with string
(like delicate handcuffs with a summer-orange scent)
hiding within fields of oxeye daisies where lips hold yearning like a mosquito’s bloodlust for a certain syrupy red wine that’s held in containers of flesh and bone
the proboscis breaks the surface like an
embroidery needle and the sting is sewn
to the skin like round buttons on soft cotton tops
as they drink from the holy bodies sunk deep in cool soil kissed by pious rays of lucent starlight
and we itch from an insect’s touch
and a lover’s kiss



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hwoodruff98 said...
on Mar. 14 2017 at 11:06 am
hwoodruff98, Lititz, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." -Mahatma Gandhi

"What will your verse be?" -Dead Poets Society

"Write drunk, edit sober." -Ernest Hemingway

Beautiful imagery

on Oct. 31 2016 at 4:41 pm
TheGreat1 BRONZE, Cincinnati, Ohio
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I was confused in the beginning but it all came together in the end. And nice imagery