You Fade by Kathryn Dixon. Moment_in_time.jpg (266×400) Survival. If you were the sky and I were the sea. by Duck. If you were the skyThen I'd be the seaAnd when you shined brightIt would reflect in me.When you're at restThen I am steady.If you wanna get roughI'm always ready.Past closing at the barsIf you show me the starsI'll open right upAnd cast them out far.And on the darkest nightIf you won't shine a light.Then I'm silent alongside youUntil you feel right.We'll meet at the horizonWhere lovers will stareAnd wonder with passionWhy they can't meet there.And you'll share me a kissAs bright as two suns.When they meet in the middleI'll know the days done.And I can tell that's your way of saying to me.Goodnight my love.If you were the sky and I were the sea. Lessons by A Thomas Hawkins. Stone Telling: The Magazine of Boundary-crossing Poetry.
By Shira Lipkin the girl's voice the changeling voice I have studied so hard to pass as one of you. I've spent a lifetime on it. I have tells. Blisters, tremors, bruises, all the signs that I was not meant for your world, was not meant to be contained in your clothes, your shoes. When I was little, I asked my alleged mother,what's a girl? She saidyou,you're a girl, and she laced me into dresses (that I tore off in the school parking lot, in line for the bus). My dancing was different. And everything is about containment is about being delicate and pretty laced into corsets whalebone stays digging into your ribs because it's not beauty if it doesn't hurt. But I studied. None of it is in my nature. I am something larger, more fluid, less constrained. Shira Lipkin is a writer, activist, mother, and nexus. Read Shira's discussion of this poem over at the Roundtable! Photography:Untitled, by Graham Blackall.
PANK Magazine / Jeanann Verlee. The Open Man « Driven to Verse. I Am The Shadow by irrelevance10. Andy Weaver - A Little Love Poem. William Carlos Williams, DANSE RUSSE. Your Feet - Pablo Neruda. Graphicpoetry.net presents: dreaming out loud. Poetry of Nazim Hikmet Ran. "Whole" by Lys • The Most Aggressive Defense Of Teachers You’ll Hear This Year. A Manifesto For Creativity In The Modern Era. George Watsky- 'Drunk Text Message to God' SHE IS A BOOK. Beautiful poem. "untitled. " by dearhonestyx. I carry your heart. If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda.