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 Sep 2013 Amy Leigh
Cassie
I'm hungry for what lies between your ears
Within your skull
But I know you won't tell me what's been blossoming behind your eyelids
For everything you see, a thesaurus unfolds
You won't let me thumb the pages
Your dialect reflects your well read imagination
Is there passion?
Or was this just a class?
A grade?
A presentation?
You might have me fooled
Hearing you recite your carefully crafted words
Sends me good vibrations
I hope you were serious about wanting to be a master of English education
end rhyming horribly but is there always passion behind poetry? or can we be fed *******?
Black and White
I once heard they flow like negative and positive,
no and yes,
the unknown and known.
The duality of everything
one thing's for sure
it's not a battle between good and evil.
Its about getting the right tint or shade for the bigger picture
how big is your picture?
Better yet how far can you see?
Because by understanding the duality
even some blind men can see deeper than I.
 Sep 2013 Amy Leigh
Annie
Profligacy
 Sep 2013 Amy Leigh
Annie
The elephants can't stand anymore
Their feeble legs
Can't afford the weight of their profligacy
While the ground cracks beneath them
The whistling of the earth
In the center
There's a coal burning
It sends its energy
To each of its residents
A woman scraping her eyelids on the street
A decrepit cactus plant  
The drunk father next door
Who beats his wife, spares his children and loves his dog
But the elephants are happy
If world is for our enjoyment
Why does it **** us over?
 Sep 2013 Amy Leigh
erin barton
love is an illusion
it’s just oxytocin;
a chemical in the brain
it’s not real
but the
magnocellular neurosecretory cells
must be very good
at making it
and the posterior lobe
must be very good
at releasing it
into my blood
because it feels
pretty **** real
to me
The birds fly across a blackened sky,
Cold humid air encloses our bodies as we watch,
We try to comprehend the spectacle, trying to attach a meaning,
Incapable, we have each other, is that what matters?
We hold hands, warm, clammy, tears roll down his face.

They talk about the meaning, the birds.
What have they done, he thinks a vision maybe,
A premonition, tears, sweat, as he struggles.

He tries to break free, as they stand on the cliff,
She wont let go, the birds were bad,
She holds tight, he looks into her eyes, confused,
The birds he says, almost screaming, didn't she see them,
Doesn't she know, the tears come,
She holds tighter, he struggles, what is she doing.

He then sees,
The birds are coming back, what for?
The pain, the sorrow,
The tears subside, he calms, he breathes, did she know?
Only birds.
"I love you"
should be a little more difficult to say.

There should be advanced language classes
revolving around complex sentence structure,
advanced clauses and arrangement,
complicated syntax,
so that
"I love you"
means more than loving anything else.

Ich liebe dich.

Te amo.

Je t'aime.

I love you.

Saying "I'm sorry" in German
is more difficult
than "I love you."

Why is it that in order to apologize for something,
I first have to learn about reflexive pronouns,
and reflexive verbs,
and that the same word for "the"
can also stand alone as the subject of the sentence?

Das tut mir Leid
is more grammatically complicated
than Ich liebe dich.

And yet one wonders why love
seems to have become so clichéd.
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