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POEM STARTER
‘The absence is still keenly felt, but now the gaps can be refilled.’
Write a blank verse poem that closes with this line. Blank verse poetry doesn't rhyme, but normally uses strict structure to build a melody through rhythm.
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Seven years of ups and downs,
Highs and lows and everything,
That lies between. It was,
So beautiful, so bittersweet,
Until it all came crashing,
Down, down, down.
I thought we had forever,
But little did I know,
Forever isn’t long at all,
And time is a clever one,
It has this way of slipping through,
Your fingers, just like sand.
And in its swift dissent,
It grabs you by the hand,
It...
If You were to see this
It’ll probably explain how I felt
In a time that shouldn’t matter anymore
You should’ve been someone who doesn’t matter
Yet timing says otherwise when you find a way
Back into my mind
Like you didn’t leave my heart in pieces
Pilled too high for me to get over
melancholic waters you taught me to swim
Thankful to be alive
Held together slowly with space and time
The...
Come sit by me
and squeeze the
hope from my kiss.
My toxic levels
settling on your lips.
Sacred are these
words that fit,
when they’re filled
with the emotional
bile pumping from my chest…
Play me to the beyond, and call me lovely today. Perhaps, then I will stay. Though truly you never will be able to tell where I’ll wind up, once my crazy heart goes on display. For, it’s a gamble, you...
Warm light,
pasted nights,
glistening upon the curved edged line,
of sight,
Nutmeg induced inflected irises,
Cast back Amphitrite falls,
Intertwining with one’s Lacrimal Papilla,
Chalk white, just might,
Performing the inevitable,
of being pale and transpare.
Oh how blanched and waxen it is,
to the oh bawling palette,
of becoming Eros.
Absorption to foe glaciers of shards,
Yet to be procl...
Crease free sheets and cold coffee cups,
A room hollowed out and clothes untouched,
In place of a body or a hand or a heart,
Is nothing but dust and worn faded cloth,
Time heals at slow pace and repairs the broken things,
She mends worn out cords and stitches open cavities.
For a while all is upheaved and the room tidies itself,
The clothes end up on other bodies and the world is fr...
You two were gone
The fun nights
The happiness
The laughter
The feeling of carelessness
All gone
New people
No similarities
Below them
I am below them
A new language
I don’t speak
Don’t understand
I cant talk
Communicate with others
I am mute here
Unable to express myself
Meet others
I don’t want to
But I want to be able to
To talk to others
Meet others
Feel heard in this web that I call life
...
Every word you’ve said to me
Has either been
I’ll stop keeping secrets from you
I’ll always be your friend
I’d choose you any day
I promise
I didn’t believe you
It kept happening
She left us
I thought I was becoming a third wheel
I got cursed at
Accused of not telling you at the beginning
But I did
You were too in love to realize
What I felt
Even though I told you
A lot
But you’re way better than...
You reminded me of my childhood and all the whimsical things I never had a chance to do.
We melted together like the wax of a candle, molding together so firmly yet so soft.
You gave me life when all I had was death surrounding me, planting wildflowers in all my cracks and crevices.
We were conjoined at the hip, our belt loops fixed to each other.
Family vacations, birthdays, holidays. You and I w...
absence is something familiar
it no longer brings surprise,
to be abandoned
the absence of love hurts,
but it is understood
when it was destroyed,
i felt the absence,
four years later,
i still do
what would have happened if we had stayed
if he hadn’t been so sick
would i still understand the absence?
but i will not now
the absence is keenly felt, but now, the gaps can be filled...
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