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119. Floetry by JulietKego: Knurling My Heart
Tag Archives: Quotes about heartbreak
#POETRY. Senryu Verses #24. Via Dolorosa (Love’s Way of the Cross)
111. #Floetry by JulietKego: Awakened in Love
Floetry by JulietKego: Awakened in Love
Sleep floats away
Words take her place…
A bouquet of your poems
I inhale their perfumes
Spicy, sweet, sharp,
Stinging, soothing,
Then STIRRING,
The dams burst and
I curl up and weep…
Like a sardine of songs
Packed into the spaces
Of a scattered mind
Their oils pour out
Spilling into and staining
My wall-less nights and days
Fingers cannot keep up
With the flood of words
I am drowning here
In an angry storm-sea of love…
I should have engraved
Your poems only
as temporary tattoos
on my forearms
Now I find your image still here
Deeply entrenched,
Permanently etched
Into the walls of my heart…
And I cannot get you out
of the linings of my soul
Unless love ends;
or I cease to breathe
Confused, I pause;
I inhale; I decide to live
I exhale; I choose to love
And so I know
That I shall carry you around
(The breath of my love),
All the life of my days
Like a mesh of beautifully
knotted, stirring, aches…
Sleep floats away
and love takes her place. ❤
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#63. Death in Heartbreak.
Someday soon, I’ll look at life in blissful wonder anew.
Till then, I’ll look at the outside world and wonder if it knew
that my heart, in stealth was killed, – I am here but not quite here.
Stripped of love, slowly fading away, ’til finally, I fear I may disappear.
