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ihatetulips

I’d even swallow tulips for you

No matter how many purple hyacinths fall from my eyes sweatpeas still grow upon the earth above you

-rest in peace knowing we’ll take care of your family through this rough time and remember you always 2001-2020

Challenge
Write a haiku about Summer
5-7-5 syllable breakdown. Add a encore if you don't have enough words or an explanation of your piece.
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ihatetulips in Poetry & Free Verse

Summer on Katahdin

I miss the trees and

Sea of ebony and green

Of tall forest ferns

{the end}

Challenge
Butterflies
A symbol of hope, dreams, the tiny feeling in your stomachs, a delicate idea, symmetry, a weapon of mass destruction. Write a poem about anything as long as it includes butterflies (or a butterfly if your that person).
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Mazzmyrrheyes in Poetry & Free Verse

Winged Garden of Grace (r/p)

With black bodice features

She burrows through peat

Amidst humble creatures

Oft’ crushed beneath feet

She’ll become a winged garden

Eyes, blind to behold

Her future, yet hidden

Daydreams to unfold

Tears fall from Grace

Feast of leaves, her last bite

Spring winds wipe her face

While she spins her silk kite

She places her life

Into Destiny’s hands

Without fighting or strife

Trusts her creator’s plan

Grace falls to sleep

Charis’ chrysalis tomb

Slow to gold dust, she seeps;

Born of wings, waxed en womb

Sun wakes her, unshelled

Stunning brilliance of light

Grace falls, unveiled

To her garden in flight

Gold rays ’luminate

Woven colors, divine

Nectar dreams, she creates

Sugar sips from the vine

Grace falls on me

Flutters hope, soul aloft

When her beauty I see

Whilst her former self’s lost

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countingstars

her kiss was bursts of a hundred honeyed suns exploding in my mouth.

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LittleBugs

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good morning, my friend:)

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countingstars

the death of icarus.

his broken wings ignited from apollo's rays

tumbling down into the wine-dark sea

he set the world on fire.

Challenge
I stood on the bridge and waited...
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ihatetulips in Fiction

Golden Gate

I stood on the bridge and waited peeking over the edge beyond my white shoes and clattering kneecaps,

I think I should be falling now and of the long way down,

now I’m sitting by the windowsill as she sits beside me,

My hands run through her honey-colored locks,

while the scent of lavender fills my lungs and i wonder,

"why do I do this for you," and she replies, "don't stop I'm in love,"

but did you mean the feeling or me because I'm standing at the edge,

wondering if the truth of us is enough to keep me from falling into you,

and I know that maybe you'll hold me close but it won't be for love nor hope,

it will be for lips pressed to lips and chest to chest and kiss to hips,

while our chests heave and we execute the dance of death without the eternal sleeping,

still I won't cry for you and you won't stop me from leaving,

but I left orchids at your doorstep because deep within my bones,

I know I shouldn't care if you leave but I want too

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countingstars

starry spirits.

she sipped moonshine

washed over by milky spirits

and falling in love, starry-eyed, with the goddess of the moon.

Challenge
Guess the song
Write a single verse to a song, and guess other songs.
blossom1208

I Feel Like Many People Need To Hear This(Guess The Song)

What if I told you the world wouldn’t end

If you started showing what’s under your skin?

What if you let ’em all in on the lie?

Even the homecoming queen cries

Yeah, what if I told you the sky wouldn’t fall?

If you lost your composure, said to hell with it all

Not everything pretty sparkles and shines

And even the homecoming queen cries

Oh yeah

Even the homecoming queen cries

Challenge
What do you look for in a friendship? comfort? challenge? intrigue? love?
200 words or less.
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TW

Dedicated Distance

I look for someone who won't mind if we don't speak randomly for a year or two, but will still pick up the conversation with enthusiasm however many months later we talk again.