“Love” – Demya Gaskin
Love is a warm embrace
Love is a passionate kiss
Love is giving
Love is caring
Love is listening
Love is understanding
Love is intimacy
Love is safety
Love is attachment
Love is vulnerability
Love is friendship
Love is desire
Love is spiritual
Love is harmonious
Love is compassion
Love is measureless
Love is never-ending
Love is sacred
Love is rare
Love is powerful
If you have love you have the most valuable thing in the world
To be loved is the best gift anyone can have
“To Be Loved” – Katie Taylor
I just wanted to be loved in the way my mother loves my father
The way the moon loves the sun
And to love the way
That the universe loves us all
“I can’t stand the rain” – Anna Shoup
You wish it would rain for longer
So you could hold me while I don’t sleep
To the sound of the house shaking
The rumbling of the sky drowns your snores
And your twitches are made small by the evening’s roar
Gutters regurgitate, bearing shingles overworked
Weakened window panes give way to a muddied front lawn
I can’t stand the rain
Though when you wake up I’ll tell a lie
And make myself a heaping cup with no sugar
You’ll say you wish I could stay for longer
And I’ll leave you the empty house
Never promising to stay gone this time
To not return
And try to stand the rain for you
“Cyclical” – Krishna Poroori
I am
I am with you
I like you
I love you
I loved you
I liked you
I am without you
I am
alone
I am
I am with someone new
I like them too
I love them too
They liked me
They loved me
she left
I am
alo..
“thoughts of july, in january” – Mariam Janad
fated certainties fall apart at the seams
and i learn to swallow the
density of the summer air
whole.
the fabric of my lungs
bursts with the ecstasy
of tomato leaves like upturned palms,
hailing summer rain.
a january cold brews apathy for the
hungry birds.
stitches fray from back pockets
and I pay for tulip bouquets,
like heads dropping in prayer,
with one-dollar bills.
“Tomorrow” – Brie Buckfelder
When you’re a chronic overthinker
Your farewells carry the weight of anxieties
The unsure difference between a pleasantry and a prayer
Saying “see you soon”
Or “drive safe”
Or “goodbye” with crossed fingers behind my back
When you’re a daydreamer
Your dreams come in two forms
Sometimes it’s hard to tell which one you’re in
One brings a kind heart
And quick wit
And a promise of tomorrow
Another brings a goodbye
Where I forgot to cross my fingers
When you’re both
You worry about time too much
Will the air feel the same twenty years from today
Will I remember to pray enough
That I won’t have to worry about my farewells
That I can be certain
When I say “see you soon”
That I will
“Yearning” – anonymous
Knees weak.
Heart open.
I want to seek
What can’t be broken.
Oh happy fault
I cannot balk.
I’m out of my vault
But how do I walk?
His eyes are so brown.
I look up at him.
They shimmer on down,
And I can’t swim.
A moment of weakness,
A heart wrenching confession.
He likes another missus,
And I can no further question.
I write a sonnet,
The sappiest one ever.
Then I accept
That it might be never.
But then his eye gives a gleam
And he leans in.
I can’t help but dream,
That he may kiss my soul within.
