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What Patience Said To The Beast

Posted on January 15, 2022 by T.N.

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If that is sothen let it come from your heart,not your ego.Let the genuine and tender be apparentalong the lines, furrowsvalleys, plateaus of your face;and the hairy underbelly of your nature.Let it be that you could have mined herfor all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry Tagged #Poetry, #writing, #writingcommunity, Beauty and the Beast, Disney, Fairytale, love, Love Poems, patience

Closure

Posted on November 7, 2021 by T.N.

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No.No need to rehash the past,to hear an apology,to roll out punishment,to unload my side of the storyin order to move on. Close the door behind yousilently or otherwise.Our actions,they speak for themselves. There doesn’t have to be a haloinnocently … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry Tagged #Poetry, #writing, #writingcommunity, love, Poetry, relationships

Hell’s Saints

Posted on September 5, 2021 by T.N.

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I had forgotten how to lovewhen you built a stairway to my hell. …my inferno: a mangled mass of existential curveballs, bleeding mess, piercing misery. There you transfigured thistles and thorns into the strong kind of tender -work we’re always … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry Tagged #Poetry, #writing, #writingcommunity, Good People, love, Love Poems, Poetry, Saints

The Colour Series (Part 1): Hues Of Possibility

Posted on August 8, 2021 by T.N.

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I had never seen the colour greenSo he told me what it’s for:To bloom from that which we promised,To fume with envy when luck walked byin favour of another. I had never seen the colour greenSo he pulled up a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, The Colour Series Tagged #Friendship, #poetrycommunity, #writingcommunity, friendship, love, Poetry, The Colour Series, Writing

Family Ties

Posted on July 25, 2021 by T.N.

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I could describe to you how my chest complainsas I lie forehead-first on my bedin the middle of every night…But that will only grieve you. I will let you proceed into memory,none the wiser of just how deeply the wound … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry Tagged #EstrangedFamily, #Family, #Poetry, love, Poetry

Enigma

Posted on July 13, 2021 by T.N.

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I do not love you,for I don’t know what “love” means.Rather, I respect you.I understand your weightin an era desperate for special beings. I see you as a people sees a resolutionwithin a nation’s hour of need.If that resolution had … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry Tagged #LovePoems, #Poetry, #writing, #writingcommunity, love, Poetry

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