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Poems by Ikiru, by newest first

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  • Distance
    Love is a string of fragile moments
    when two people fall together.
    by Ikiru 17 lines, on Sep 23 2:36 PM 2008
  • The Worst Thing You Can Imagine
    Johnny said it was a snake. A big fat
    snake. All slimy with it’s coils.
    by Ikiru 18 lines, on Sep 23 2:32 PM 2008. In Personal, Life, Society, Sad
  • I Know
    I know your lips softly open in your sleeping,
    your dream-twitching, and your snores.
    by Ikiru 15 lines, on Sep 23 2:30 PM 2008
  • My Dearest Love
    I feel your first heartbeat as one feels
    a sucked cut throb against the tongue.
    by Ikiru 43 lines, on Sep 23 2:11 PM 2008. In Personal, Hope, Love
  • Going Away
    Then wonder how empty space can have a silver lining.
    by Ikiru 116 lines, on Sep 23 2:03 PM 2008. In Sad, Personal, Thoughts
  • Abort
    The small scar sits
    Between my thighs, and breasts,
    by Ikiru 9 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 20 5:30 PM 2007. In Pain, Sad, Personal
  • The Gaps
    I don’t know how I should describe / how I have been since you checked out. / But this gaping is now so wide / I think I could slip through without / a fuss. / I must, I think, before this noise / and uglines
    by Ikiru 12 lines, 1 comment, on May 24 8:51 AM 2007. In Sad, Personal, Dark, Other
  • After Words
    Afterwards, in darkness, you just wondered / what I was thinking. Oh, if I could find / words to describe the image in my head / of childre
    by Ikiru 5 lines, 1 comment, on May 15 5:11 AM 2007
  • Father's Day
    It wasn’t much, just a CD or book, / once Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky. / Tossing it aside you joked you mistook / it for a doorstop, it was so heavy. / The hardest part was finding words to stuff / that b
    by Ikiru 16 lines, 1 comment, on May 15 5:06 AM 2007
  • Calling you, Paul.
    Eleven numbers, that is all there is. / Eleven numbers between you and me / And nothing else. Sat here I can hear his / voice, chewing the
    by Ikiru 17 lines, 1 comment, on May 7 1:08 PM 2007
  • Study 1.
    My teeth are loose
    And one by one
    by Ikiru 17 lines, on Apr 24 4:20 AM 2007. In Love, Sad, Personal
  • The Pebble
    I wish my heart were a pebble:
    Cold, in your hands, and perfect,
    by Ikiru 20 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 1 10:30 AM 2007. In Love, Sad, Personal, Other
  • Fragments (of thoughts and memories)
    I
    A night so dark
    by Ikiru 62 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 13 4:32 PM 2007
  • Getting Carried Away
    I
    I woke up asleep
    by Ikiru 38 lines, 12 comments, on Aug 21 3:55 PM 2006. In Personal, Society, Dark
  • Whisperscreaming
    They were at my window again last night;
    Chattering silently in improvised tongues,
    by Ikiru 51 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 1 7:44 AM 2006. In Sad, Personal, Society
  • Elephant
    For a moment it stopped:
    One second with no buzzing,
    by Ikiru 25 lines, 3 comments, on May 14 3:28 PM 2006. In Personal, Other, Dark
  • The Escape
    Take your hand off my mouth,
    Can’t you feel it?
    by Ikiru 44 lines, 3 comments, on May 12 3:28 PM 2006. In Society, Love, Dark
  • Awakening
    Take my hand, I'll lead you down,
    the stairs.
    by Ikiru 53 lines, 1 comment, on May 12 3:24 PM 2006. In Other, Love, Hope
  • Black, Black Pools of Black (An Ode to Online Offerings)
    The bells, the bells, tolling their inexorable doom;
    Here in my room, my tomb; and soon
    by Ikiru 35 lines, 9 comments, on Jan 10 1:16 PM 2005. In Humor
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