you can find out why
when the night smacks you around
… you know, you know… begin.
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turn the other cheek (haiku)
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Socialite on a Ferris Wheel
lambent dress laps
carnival lights
glowing in colors of a diamond
she rides
high above
spooning honeysuckle and
wearing fireflies
flippant.and in Denmark
they pour another
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.
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insecurity
it takes a quiet
tear
to track the ways
silence
highlights every
wrinklethese insecurities
are
the way fog rolls
down
from the tops of
mountains
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online stalking
the keys
allow my fingers
to stroke your
face without
you knowing,finds me watching
every twitch
the phone makes
each post a secret message
to deciphereach click click
a gentle massage
and oh the tap taps
the best type of
caress.
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the desire to be thin
only only only
if i could
look like you
it would be
so
thrilling
what it must be like
to have
those stares
those flowering words
those bones
so
light as air.
-
traveling around the world
my first time around the world
i had short hair
and packed every lotion and anti-wrinkle cream
till my white t-shirts
stained brown
and i had to leave
a piece in every country.my second time around the world
hair had more split ends tied back
and my pack held what i learned
from those
wandering souls on the
road more worn than i had
ever originally guessed.now… i am wandering, hanging out
and my hair is a wild kingdom of creatures
living quite contently with me
barefoot, light weight as air
each step
leaves an imprint
till bit by bit i’m gone.
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silk road (haiku)
at 4 am it
seems like a razor slices
the narrowest vein.till ribbons of silk
take to the road on camel
leaving naught but dust.
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dreams like those
with every sleeping breath
a reaching sigh
a thought a desire
sends twisting sheets
into knots.
Poetry by JC Snyder 