Starting Small, Just Like Spring

Dawn stirred

spring slid with the sun across winter's dead fields

leaves trembled over hard ground

it held everything 

she whispered its name

raising green from the soil again

begging life from the clay

Throwing Pennies At It

A neon sign burned red holes in the night

I wiped away spilled beer remembering unfinished hopes 

remembering you

I tried fitting you into words but got lost

thought I would take a chance

like sunrise i would just happen suddenly 

warmth and light

but it wasn't right 

not this time

so I stuck my heart in my hands and let it burn

i cried and wanted you

saw my reflection in the well

started throwing pennies at it

Spring will dawn in a few days; she'll lift her head and bloom.

Ink babble, and a lot of it…

Can you put it together

add light to the stars

can you see it in pieces

bringing shine to a pearl

a poem a song a prayer

from a girl

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look, i just sit alone

with a pen and drinking wine

you made me happy

like everything new

sunshine and rainbows

and god damn summer dew

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do you keep the bottle

and all my bleeding notes

do you feel happy

the smell of cigarettes in the rain and old smoke

i still wear your sweater 

in a silver fall rain

we wait for darkness 

for the end of a day

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it's spartan in here

i guess you can't see

a pastel plaster corner

where i kept no TV

propped up on coke and war memories

you threw Johnny Walker at the door

listening to music

who plays this peace creep stuff anyway

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love's a cold weather game

giving out little bits of heart

little broken crumbs

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Stars were sliding slowly on a blackened sky while small and far below i waited for a sound or spark or hint of light.

Light n Sweet

You live like a ripple

i live like a stone

i can't think about you

all i do is cry

i just want to touch you

i want to feel whole

i dream your name as i sleep

like it's something i stole

your eyes shine with longing

i should have given you control

but if i think about you

something crumbles inside

i remember your laughter

soft cotton laughter

i live like a shadow

you live like the sky

but one day i'll find you

one day i won't cry

Almost Love

let me just hurt tonight

i ran out of words for you

love isn't love

and true isn't true

i ran out of words for you

but the rain is coming

i smell it on the wind

whipping and screaming like a train

just let me cry tonight

what could i say

love like a waterfall washing away

but love isn't love

and true isn't true

i ran out of words for you

or maybe i do

believe in a kiss like sunrise breaking the day

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I Used To Be On Fire

he smiled

i loved him

i told him everything i had

but time started slipping

he stopped coming home

i stood alone in the cold

a swollen moon chased Orion

the two of them dancing forever that way

they've done this before

the lead and the follow

the heart and the hollow

i used to be on fire

i tore out the phone and died when he left

a long time of crying and beer

and strangers 

over and over were strangers staring at me

touching my hair

it's like they could see it

my broken light 

i used to be on fire

i locked the doors and cried myself raw when he left

i loved him

never pictured the end

then i saw his eyes 

her red hair mirrored there

he said he was leaving

the memory still stabs me

i used to be on fire

the heart and the hollow

such a perfect pair

It was a long time ago, but I feel it again. Beautiful love somehow changing.

So Tired Of This Unfinished Song 

I needed to spin in the softness

taste candy on your lips

i propped you up in butterscotch and fantasy

love me?

i don't even know you

just footprints in the snow

corner me

kiss me

push your hands through my hair

turn me and spin me 

the sun is still down

i trampled through midnight's fresh snow on the ground

spin me and kiss me

snow

shattered diamonds around

spin me and hold me

dusty prints stamp the ground