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"Poetic" MAG

September 11, 2013
By stillheartless PLATINUM, Eugene, Oregon
stillheartless PLATINUM, Eugene, Oregon
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Favorite Quote:
"I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you." -Jenny Downham


I told you once
that I stayed up
all night
to watch the sun
rise on my birthday.
I couldn't see it
from where I stood,
so I climbed
onto the top of
my brother's
friend's van,
and waited,
wrapped up in a blanket,
and sitting on a towel,
because it rained through the night.
I sat in awe
as the sky erupted
into egg-yolk
yellows
and bubblegum
pinks.

“Poetic,”
you had said.
That sunrise,
of course,
could not hold a candle
to that moment when
you looked at me,
smiling,
not with your lips,
but your eyes.



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on Feb. 8 2014 at 8:06 pm
theSunfloweredCrow PLATINUM, Green Bay, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Can&#039;t keep my eyes from the circling sky,<br /> Tongue-tied and twisted<br /> Just an earth-bound misfit, I&quot;<br /> ~Pink Floyd<br /> <br /> &quot;Now is blessed<br /> The rest<br /> remembered &quot; <br /> <br /> ~Jim Morrison

I LOVE your descriptions of the colors in this piece. This poem made me smile it's so beautiful! Ok I'm adding this to my favorites you totally deserved to get this published! Its amazing. I'm really happy for you. :)