

For youToo shy to say it then, and inexperienced, I thought I'd try it here. I know it's short and awkward; but then you're the poet. If I am a little quiet and seem withdrawn, it's just because my poetry's inside, and I don't know yet how your metre goes. But all I should have said, and wanted to, is will you be my poet?For you


the shutting of lidsI wore ribbons in my hairthe shutting of lids
for you today. But I needed to say something more like snow storms
and something louder than the six AM alarm clocks
that pull you back when you've only had a few hours sleep, but you peel hair from those frown lines
like a sticky toffee cake from its tin. My eyes are just not blue enough and my dirty pores are tiny peep holes, I drop out when you look in.
I wore dark jeans and a white vest top today, but I really wanted to slip under double sheets in pink pajamas and pull heavy-like-love covers over me
while thousands of people celebrated


Hope in a BottleNight is kind, smoothing away the miles until it’s all down to you and me again.Hope in a Bottle
Naked, for we don’t believe in clothes after dark, nothing between us but two cell phones and four thousand miles.
Nothing at all…
I always do this. I stay up too late and I drink too much, though you told me I shouldn’t. We talk like planets, orbiting around the giant star of “Do you miss me? I’m lost without you,” afraid to touch because we know it’ll burn.
You say you hate me, and I have to laugh- I’ve never heard so much love in so few words.
You’v


Tips For Editing Poetry***Tips For the Novice (and otherwise) - Editing***Tips For Editing Poetry
The blanket statement, "Editing/revision harms poetry," is simply wrong. It's akin to a photographer claiming that focusing the lens ruins the emotion of the photograph. It is the details, and the appropriate attention paid to them, that separate a photograph from a snapshot. Imagine a film maker slapping every frame he shot up on the screen without editing for continuity, for pacing, for effect. What a disaster. That is not to say that editing can't be destructive - there is such a thing as poor editing, just as there is po
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