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shi in Poetry & Free Verse

spiderweb

You said my hair was like starlight

And it covers you in your dreams like a web

All tangled up, you wish upon the stars that you don’t wake up

I feel your breaths on top my head, all wrapped around you now

And I dare not fight the tiredness, dare not to open my eyes

so I don’t wake up from your dream.

shi

burned bridge crosses the oasis

I danced on the green grass at the other side. When the smoke subsided and I saw you standing across, there must have been a thousand things I wish were different. But I had already been welcomed by the warm arms that promised to never bring me that anguishing fire again. I won’t be consumed again by my own hollowing rage...

I felt the smallest grain of darkness land in my belly and betray The Happiness. It becomes a seed that grows weeds on my green grass. When I lay under the warmth, they grow pricks to wake me of this all too good nirvana.

shi

I used to write in blue

Hoping these inky tears will drought.

shi in Poetry & Free Verse

Shopaholic

She smells like coco Chanel

Cause she couldn’t buy that dress.

Dear you,

Put your lipstick on, the richest shade of red. you’re going to impress.

Slippin the dress. It’s been too long feeling this good.

It’s been far too long feeling this good.

It feels like cigarettes when it’s going to rain,

Smokey eyes, thinking about how the next morning I’ll be here

Drinking my coffee under the sunny morning sky.

Light one up.

I close my eyes

.

I like the sound of the crickets humming tonight

And the traffic zooming by

I know I’m only a road away.

shi in Poetry & Free Verse

You’ve got the key, meet me

Do you look at her like someone precious you wanna hold

And swallow up into the belly of someone who craves love

Can you ever find the reason in yourself that I wasn’t enough to make you feel full

Drown with you, I did

In till I couldn’t even feel my body slipping away

Was I the only one

Who was so intoxicated I thought it was real just like one of those movies when we danced in rain

Drank in till the morning till it was time to say goodbye

Can you explain the reasons why you came knocking in the morning

And yet you need another after you’ve

Consumed it all, just got the bones to chew on.

shi

The party doesn’t stop

You got your cigarettes

The dollar bill’s rolled up

Oh oh

Roll up

And pick up

It’s not a weekend, but we’ll live it up everyday

Roll up and pick up

Drinks in one hand

And we’re yelling oh oh yeah yeah

To a beat that we’re all too familiar with each night

And we got the drip on us, that makes us checking the mirror

Oh oh roll up, and keep up

To the sound ohh

You better look away

Shh.

shi in Poetry & Free Verse

falling

Bite my teeth

Hold my breath

And hope this isn’t real

Summer love, it’s all coming to an end.

Sun sets at 6, an uneven glow

Cast by my grey

I burn no more, with all these tears running down

Been biting my lips trying to hold it all in

Tried to drown out all this pain by trying not to find the words that would make it all okay

Find the words that made everything true.

You can be my endless love, hun... and I know it’d be all a lie, but didn’t you like to feel our skin to skin, sweat on sheets

And I can fake it if you can too.

Summer love, it’s over.

I bury my love in the falling leaves

Hope it counts as a wish like we used to do, blowing on the dandelions.

Challenge
Tell Me What Love Is
Tell me what love is. Poetry or prose. Tag me in the comments.
shi

Loveis..

I once saw love as a red ballon

Obtuse and pregnant

Full of hope

The wild childs’ hands play

What brings happiness to the corner of their mouths

And it’s let go

Suspended for a second, before it gives up trying to stay unleashed

They cry, want it back

And it’s too late

Now seeing this bloody balloon

How easily let go

It gives me a nice heartache to go along with the headache (shouldn’t have had that bottle that makes me forget about love)

If you see ‘it’, you should be scared

Next time I think I feel love

Abort! Abort!

shi in Poetry & Free Verse

Cue the sax

Ohhh, just yesterday

I loved you soo much

Red, pink-

Now bruised blue

Yesterday was like dreaming in the safest arms

Now I lay awake

With an open heart ache

You gotta stab me a few times before I wake

And I don't want it to be yesterday again

It's not worth today's ache if you're not aching too

Cause who really needs you when you didn't love me too

The yesterdays have past

Now I know...

How it feels to love you.

shi in Poetry & Free Verse

“Waiting for you is like waiting for the rain”

You’re hoping for the sun

I’m still living in the rain

Give me a break

For all we know

You’re just a cloud upabove

Another one of my storms and you’ll

Fall like rain

Next morning after

You’ll be gone

Just when the sun has come.