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“Two rules for kissing:
1. Don’t kiss someone who’s in love with someone else.
1a. Especially if you love whomever you’re kissing.
2. Don’t let someone who loves you kiss you when you don’t share their feelings.
2a. Especially if you’re in love with someone else.”
— S.M., Things High School Has Taught Me
Tagged: Kissing, Love, True Love Waits, Poetry, poem, Writers, Poets, Internet Poetry
“They say in this case
the first love
will be the last love
so what if
the boy that got away
thinks of you as
the girl that got away
and what if
fate pulls this trick
on you too?”
— Annelies, "Long Time", Excerpt from the series Morning Wild Boy Hair
Tagged: Poetry, Love, True Love Waits, Writers, Poets, Heartbreak, Distance
“How I would like to believe in tenderness.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Moon and the Yew Tree
Tagged: Poetry, Literature, Soft
“I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves”
— Jeff Buckley, A quote by Jeff Buckley
Tagged: Haunted, Love, Music, Psychology, Poetry
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet.”
— Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna
Tagged: Best Opening Lyrics, Song Lyrics, Poetry
“I don’t know what brings broken people together
maybe damage seeks out damage
the way stains on a mattress halo into one another
the way stains on a mattress bleed into each other.”
— Warsan Shire, A quote by Warsan Shire
Tagged: Poetry, Lovers, Relationships, Writing, Broken People, Togetherness, Damage, Psychology
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it.
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.”
— Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Heartache, Poetry
“She lit a burner on the stove
And offered me a pipe
'I thought you'd never say hello,' she said
'You look like the silent type.'
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century.
And everyone of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul
From me to you.
Tangled up in blue.”
— Bob Dylan, Tangled up in Blue
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Poetry
“I am sick of writing this poem
but bring the boy. his new name
his same old body. ordinary, black
dead thing. bring him & we will mourn
until we forget what we are mourning
& isn’t that what being black is about?”
— Danez Smith, not an elegy for Mike Brown
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, Poetry, Police Brutality
“I demand a war to bring the dead boy back
no matter what his name is this time.”
— Danez Smith, not an elegy for Mike Brown
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, Poetry, Police Brutality
“An essential part of actualization
is recognizing your spine,
its exact longitudes and latitudes,
its corresponding weaknesses
where the algae grows.”
— Claire Bowman, A Serious Desert
Tagged: Actualization, Understanding Yourself, Poetry, Spine, Growing, Weakness
“Here lovers linger in the afterglow of intimacy, not yet concerned about the future, only enraptured by the dizzying dance they shared in each other's arms.”
— Wendy Maltz, Intimate Kisses: Poetry Of Sexual Pleasure
Tagged: Love Poetry, Love, Poetry, Intimacy, Sex, Making Love
“We crawl
through each other
and back again
guided by our blood-
electric finger tips.
I swim in you,
you in me until we
drift down, slowly”
— Roger Pfingston, "Occasion," in Intimate Kisses: Poetry Of Sexual Pleasure
Tagged: Love Poetry, Love, Poetry, Intimacy, Sex, Making Love
“i want to paint a love poem
all over the sheets and you”
— Trudi Paraha, "Whaia i te Po," in Intimate Kisses: Poetry Of Sexual Pleasure
Tagged: Love Poetry, Love, Poetry, Intimacy, Sex, Making Love
“Her veins flowed
with liquid poetry.
I stole the words
from her mouth
with my kisses.”
— j. m. green, via Pinterest
Tagged: Love, Intimacy, Making Love, My Favorites, Connection, Poetry, Two Souls
“I would put my lips to your canvas, taste where the sweat dripped from the paintbrush, and the thick, metallic earthiness of your skin.

I would run my tongue over the ridges of your beautifully crafted surface, kiss where the colors meet the edge of the frame. Claim it all as mine.”
— Marisa Donnelly, If You Could Be Art
Tagged: Love, Sex, Intimacy, Art, Poetry, poem, Favorites
“becoming dragonfish to survive
the horrors we are living
with tortured lungs
adapting to breathe blood.”
— Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Tagged: perseverance, Trauma, Poetry
“The poet keeps the image from becoming motionless.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Poetry, Word & Image, Keep The Truth Flowing
“The image offered us by reading the poem now becomes really our own. It takes root in us. It has been given us by another, but we begin to have the impression that we could have created it, that we should have created it. It becomes a new being in our language, expressing us by making us what it expresses; in other words, it is at once a becoming of expression, and a becoming of our being. Here expression creates being.”
— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tagged: Poetry, Expression Creates Us
“You keep making poetry
out of people who never stayed
as if all the pretty words
in the world can
cover up the heartache.”
— Genefe Navilon, via Tumblr
Tagged: Heartache, Heart Break, Pain, Love, poem, Poetry, My Favorites, Poetry From Loss, Poetic Words

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