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Archive for May 9, 2008

somersault

Filed under: life, love, poetry, random, thoughts by lissa — 8 Comments

May 9, 2008

photo originally uploaded by Nikα Fαdul.

***

even now,
i fall for you
the way
fireflies
creep
to the
ground.
hesitant fearful flicker
you
always know
when to catch.

my butterflies,
ancient, decrepit things
still flutter for you
do a weird somersault dance
when you do that staccato laugh
you do
during tickle fight 78.
you cannot beat me.
stop trying.

–lissa

Tags: butterflies, fall for you, fireflies

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• come away with me. we can paint our dreams in bright yellow and purple hues and string them together with band aids and the little bits of love we can muster from our rusty parts. we can fly away on them and never look back. -- lissa
• "I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." -- Pablo Neruda
• "Through practice, I've come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are. Not wanting my self to be the way I am. Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I'm suffering, I find this war with reality to be at the heart of my problem." -- Stephen Cope.
• "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." --Tom Robbins
• "Barefoot,
  I drum up and down your back.
  In the morning I run from door to door
  of the cabin playing chase me.
  Now you grab me by the ankles.
  Now you work your way up the legs
  and come to pierce me at my hunger mark"
  
  --Anne Sexton
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