May 27, 2015
by amongmyfrivolousthoughts
Let’s be happy today
Because today is a moment
We shall carve into history’s skin
So hold it within your palms
A drop of liquid gold sunshine
Trickling away to infinity
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March 5, 2015
by amongmyfrivolousthoughts
She strung words together
Glass beads on a necklace
Weaving a weeping tapestry
Fingers bird-boned, nimble
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March 3, 2015
by amongmyfrivolousthoughts
She was all of five years then
An age that should be spent
Begging her mother for stories
Or for the moon on a string
To tie up like a toy balloon
But all she asked over and over
Was if Daddy would be home soon
war is what happens when language fails
― Margaret Atwood
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February 20, 2015
by amongmyfrivolousthoughts
I want to shred off pieces
Of my own skin some times
To shrug it off like a coat
And become someone new
But I’m a wavering ocean
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February 18, 2015
by amongmyfrivolousthoughts
He met her at a bookstore
Lost in millions of books and
Tangled in a thousand lives
She wore ugly red glasses
With mismatched old shoes
She seemed at first glance
To be just another lost girl
She was a thin golden slice
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February 16, 2015
by amongmyfrivolousthoughts
You’re a cool breeze
On a burning summers day
My antidote to pain
You take it all away
In a classroom of monotony
A lazy daydream to flit time
In a world full of darkness
A golden day, sublime
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February 14, 2015
by amongmyfrivolousthoughts
I’m handed one occasionally
Like a tiny shard of moon
Stardust nestled in tissue
Or butterflies in a jam jar
My heart aches for them but
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January 22, 2015
by Harry
I grow so weary of
Fluttering in wind
Wrinkled and torn
A lacey old scrap
Encrusted solely
With soot and dust
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