Love Elegy Poems

I am 15 years old.
They say my mind is scattered stars,
too many, too bright, too far apart.
A sky that sparkles wildly,
never settling into constellations.

I try....

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I thought the layers of dust had settled
over what used to be the togetherness of 'us,'
and buried were our last tarnished traces.
But today, I found...

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I opened it like a wound
unwrapping itself,
the envelope soft from time,
your name trembling
in a handwriting I had learned to forget.

You said sorry.
In ink, not voice.
In...

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All i remember is her glaring kindness 
Her wanting love and attention from any source 
She had a beautiful toughness about her
That strengthened all around...

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The day they kidnapped you
Was the day I found myself lost.
I found myself mostly numb
In a frosted layer of my own tears --
My eyes now...

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the snow
undissolved
amid my heart
wanders eternal
as does my avidity
its difficult to accept
“to move on to forget”
six feet yet unreachable
how will this feeling melt
my everything lost tomorrow
‘we’...

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Perhaps I’ll tear my eyes away
Let my crimson spill and stray
Sew my wounds with piercing thread
If you’d love me though I bled

Death does not seem...

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Black as the night
My sable soul sings
Songs praising Nubian
Ancestors dancing
To treed thoughts
Rooted in the womb 
Of my pregnant 
Poetic mind…

Such is the essence
Of poetic labors...

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I shed tears today for a lady I never knew
For so long my emotions faced exemption
My life, created in lieu of a tragic encounter, grew
At...

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It's darkness of the etheral night,
But still the lantern light.
I somber in my beloved's laps,
Who no longer "smells like life".
     ...

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Gone With The Wind


Gone with the wind so many years ago
Your song plays triumphant 
My heart still aglow

I've never forgotten
All the stories you told
All your...

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My friend, how deep can be your sorrows?
Through smoke filled maze of modern days
When time flies by in bleary haze
And we don't know about tomorrow?

Your...

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"WOW; What a task!", I had replied unto mine Master.

He had bid me; "Name Me one good n' pure, of recent human alabaster!"

I searched to...

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Shãnta

On th' night that I saw her...
Darkness had been shunned into day
She turn'd 'round eyes bright enlighten'd...
"Oh, my gosh...Randall, you're here! I can hardly believe...

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How do I continue to live this life that is no longer the same
How do I walk down the streets without searching for your face
It’s...

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