9/25/07
Paper flowers
The silver wishes are tarnished
The hopes are now flown away
The sincerity is gone forever
The roses fade to grey
All seem as paper flowers-left too long in rain
Of insubstantial worth and always full of pain
8/24/11
Scared/Elated (in Love)
My heart is pounding out of my chest
my dreams last night were full of death
but that is merely the symptom
of a much larger problem
(I think I'm in love)
I gave you the letter
and now I don't know if it was the better
thing to do, now there is a hole in my stomach
and I'm not hungry for anything except Nectarines
(I told you I'm in love)
I'm so scared of what your reaction will be
I'm so elated about the signals you're sending
I'm so scared that I've been imagining you and me
I'm so elated about the possibility that you and I
may be in love; might be in love (I hope we're in love)
We communicate in song lyrics
that my brother wrote and sang
and it's so sweet to be your friend
to share these memories and thoughts with you
(I love you)
The look in my eyes is full of such tenderness
when I think of you
and when I talk about you
I positively shine and glow
They say being in love makes you beautiful
well, they say correctly
If I'm beautiful now
it's because I love you
Paper Flowers! I still have my paper flowers poem from the same day. Good times, writer's group.
ReplyDelete"and I'm not hungry for anything except Nectarines" = awesome line.
This poem is kind of musical, in a singing-and-dancing-onstage kind of way.
Also, you're freaking adorable, mushiness notwithstanding (or, actually, adding to your adorableness. Do you mind that I'm calling you adorable?) ^_^
I mean, I've been called adorable lots of times over the past year. I'm okay with it (actually, I kind of like it).
ReplyDelete"Mushy"... I never thought I'd come to appreciate such an adjective as much as I now do.
ReplyDeleteI love you, Hannah.