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letsbeapoemtogether · 1 day
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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
Ernest Hemingway
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letsbeapoemtogether · 2 days
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At night when it's quiet, I imagine a world full of love, happiness, and peace, and I wish I was made for that.
Abhilasha
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letsbeapoemtogether · 2 days
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Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
Poppy Z.Brite
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
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letsbeapoemtogether · 2 days
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Sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.
Robin Sikarwar
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letsbeapoemtogether · 3 days
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Louise GlĂĽck, from "Blue Rotunda", Averno
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letsbeapoemtogether · 3 days
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“Have you ever noticed when you’re tired, your fingers don’t grip things as tightly as they should? That things slip through them more often than you wish? I feel as though I am those fingers and life is slipping through me.”
— Kelsey Danielle, from “Life And Other Things.”
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letsbeapoemtogether · 3 days
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“More love is found in grief than in love itself.”
—Lang Leav, September Love
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letsbeapoemtogether · 3 days
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"In every poem etched into the pages of my existence and in the empty spaces between the lines I wrote, I named my loneliness the yearning for your presence." 
Abhilasha
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letsbeapoemtogether · 4 days
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She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. If I could wear it like a friendship bracelet, I would. Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and to swallow in silence here with her. To taste the same thing in the same moment.
Nina LaCour, We Are Okay
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letsbeapoemtogether · 4 days
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I would spend eternity peeling off the white bits of an orange, just so you can enjoy it.
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letsbeapoemtogether · 4 days
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"In a world full of chaos, let me be your constant. I will hold your hand, dry your tears, and when life gets tough, I will peel you oranges."
Abhilasha
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letsbeapoemtogether · 6 days
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Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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letsbeapoemtogether · 6 days
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People start to heal the moment they feel heard.
Cheryl Richardson
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letsbeapoemtogether · 6 days
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"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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letsbeapoemtogether · 6 days
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"With every breath I take, I inhale your essence. If I say my heart is yours, would you be more careful with it?"
Abhilasha
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letsbeapoemtogether · 7 days
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George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner, from Poems translated from the Greek; "XVI,"
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