What I thought I wanted and
What I really want are not the same
My obsession with your lips
And wanting to kiss them
I thought was my ultimate goal
In my dream you leaned against me
And kissed my cheek
Not softly, but intently
... – by Kaytee | 119 Views added 12 days ago
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To my first love
Why did I think first love lasts forever
Maybe because they are indelible
I’m still thinking about you
You needed to leave and
Invited me to be your anchor
I needed to save myself
Letting you go was the hardest lesson
I... – by Kaytee | 63 Views added 24 days ago
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Does he know I admire him from afar
I notice the crinkle of his eyes when he smiles
I see joy I wish to grasp but cannot touch
Longing
Does he know I watch his lips as he speaks
The curve of his mouth is beauty to behold
A treasure painted... – by Kaytee | 180 Views added 1 month ago
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What lies behind your secret sadness
Is it a deep cavern or shallow pool
I know the answer but don’t want to presume
I’ll raise you a dose of melancholy
Is it a deep cavern or shallow pool
Your secret sadness is beautiful
I’ll raise you a... – by Kaytee | 259 Views added 4 months ago
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I am one who chases wolves who enter my dreams
Night tales speak of your bravery or stupidity
I am not sure which fairy tale you believe
Who has the claws and who has the soft belly?
I am not one you should pursue
I will bare my teeth and my... – by Kaytee | 58 Views added 5 months ago
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I saw red and ran the wrong direction
The wildfire asked to be tamed
How can a healer ignore such a request
Is that ego, ignorance, or martyrdom?
The wildfire asked to be tamed
Was it sincerity or trickery
Is that ego, ignorance, or... – by Kaytee | 262 Views added 7 months ago
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The things I do not say out loud
The secrets and the absurdities
My silence speaks volumes
Yet you fill the space with nonsense
The secrets and the absurdities
Rattle and shake like twisted snakes
Yet you fill rooms with nonsense
Loud... – by Kaytee | 50 Views added 8 months ago
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The longer version:
Split open, show your core
Sink down in padded moss
Ancient whispers, echoing in the wind
Hear the sorrows and joys
Before old rites vanish into fog
Spirited away to oceans
Forgotten by humans
Heard only by fishes
... – by Kaytee | 218 Views added 9 months ago
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I am not the mother or the crone
I am another creature entirely
I am in between worlds
Spiritual realms and realness intertwined
Barriers of my own making
Tricked me into solitude
Damned by the expectations of others
The doctrines of polite... – by Kaytee | 237 Views added 10 months ago
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Sadness is a stealthy seductress
She whispers alluring words
Offering the comfort of familiarity
On well-worn paths into the darkness
She whispers alluring words
Begging me to come to her once again
On well-worn paths into the darkness
... – by Kaytee | 151 Views added 1 year ago
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Every cloud has a silver lining
Every devil a silver tongue
Which silver is better
Or worse
Lovers paint words gold
Hoping to seduce
Alchemize
Hypnotize
Drunk on your lies
I rationalize
Synthesize
Forming a solution
that is no longer me... – by Kaytee | 645 Views added 1 year ago
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Wandering without purpose
Is my useless purpose
Branches reaching towards me
With twisted arms welcoming
And blocking passage at the same time
Do branches speak the language
Of the world, my world, the fairy world
The languages I am yet... – by Kaytee | 181 Views added 1 year ago
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My mission was written in stone
Hoping to mend itself with the rain
That seems unreasonable, now
I predicted the outcome before the start
Dancers before you were too
aggressive or too passive, never just right
They must have been
... – by Kaytee | 256 Views added 1 year ago
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Awareness comes to me as a surprise
You confess your melancholy without regret
that is peppered in daydreams and delusions
vaporizing like the morning dew
Depending on which identity I chose to reveal,
I recognize your profile from museum... – by Kaytee | 150 Views added 1 year ago
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I want someone who can hear a painting
Someone haunted by a line of poetry
A soul who is comfort and
pulse raising at the same time
I want to be deeply understood
Although I am not sure who I am
I want to remove the masks I have worn for so... – by Kaytee | 145 Views added 1 year ago
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Oh how looking in the mirror
With wrinkles and jiggles in places that used to be firm
Hurts my heart and makes me wince and quiver
Remembering the young girl with a perm
The outline of my silhouette is no longer curvy in the right places
I use... – by Aging ain't for sissies | 166 Views added 1 year ago
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I am not afraid of the dark
I am afraid of the shadows
The darkness hides me from the monsters
And if I cannot see them they cannot see me
Shadows curve into villainous crones
Ghosts that scratch at windows
And threaten to steal you in the... – by Kaytee | 59 Views added 1 year ago
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What if I cultivated stars instead of whispering your name
What if I forget to remember you today and feel more sane
What if I communicated with the crows
What if I sensed the magic of the crossroads
What if I danced under the moon
What if... – by Kaytee | 134 Views added 1 year ago
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Sometimes I forget my age until I look in the mirror
Am I my mother today or my father
I have my father’s mouth but speak my mother’s
words
When did I start complaining so much
Do I annoy my friends by complaining so... – by Kaytee | 290 Views added 1 year ago
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Grown women wear making underpants. I am
A calico cat in red panties and a black bra. I am impersonating
An adult. I am unsure of myself and I fidget constantly
I appear to pay attention but insecurities rattle in mind
As I nod and gesture... – by Kaytee | 82 Views added 1 year ago
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The heart doesn’t forget what it came here to do
It loves impossible creatures
And sadness and strife, it never picks the easy route
It takes me through forests when I know I should flee
The heart doesn’t forget what it came here to do
It... – by Kaytee | 86 Views added 1 year ago
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I sat down today to write an apology to myself
I made a mental list of all the things I regretted
I read the charges and pleaded no contest
Realizing there is no need to name the knives
I have driven into my own heart
Christening the blades... – by Kaytee | 91 Views added 1 year ago
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In the darkness of loss I am undone
You remind me of trees with silver moss
Swaying in the breezes of the marsh
Your poetry echoes in my ears
You remind me of trees with silver moss
Memories of you take away my breath
Your poetry echoes in... – by Kaytee | 201 Views added 1 year ago
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I tried to save you but nearly drowned
The waves of your past crashed into me
Pulling me into rip tides of your suffering
With shipwrecks full of ghosts wanting company
I became one of the specters for awhile
Disappearing from my life and... – by Kaytee | 295 Views added 1 year ago
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“Unrecognizable” the headline screams
Heckling the latest actress who dares to show her face in public
Code for old, fat, or changed by plastic surgery
How dare she have laugh lines and forehead creases
Or cover those “flaws” with fillers
Look!... – by Kaytee | 51 Views added 1 year ago
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I can no longer stand in the Sun
It is too bright and revealing
I need to walk in the shadow of moonlight
There I can reveal my untainted parts
And hide the decay of regrettable choices
Some say at the end of life we regret the things we did... – by Kaytee | 78 Views added 1 year ago
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I glimpsed my melancholy in the mirror
The sadness of my spirit impossible to hide
I go through the motions everyday
Trying to push back thoughts of you
Even happy memories of my children make me want to cry
Those moments far away and gone
... – by Kaytee | 330 Views added 1 year ago
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New Orleans always feels like home
I could never live there
It just the place we meet to rekindle what no longer exists
It helps me forget that you belong to someone else
And I have a life I can’t give up
We planned to go to the zoo but it was... – by Kaytee | 73 Views added 1 year ago
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We are mismatched you and I
Day and night trying to converge
I think we have collided for lifetimes
You trying to light the pyre
Me attempting to put out the wildfire
I am the eye of the storm
And you are the fury
I longed for the ONE
To... – by Kaytee | 110 Views added 1 year ago
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I dreamed of you last night
My dreams won’t even lie to me
They showed you barely there
Giving me just enough attention to keep me from letting go
Revealing that dark dance we performed for way too long
I woke up and could not breathe.
The... – by Kaytee | 88 Views added 2 years ago
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