PoetryAssignment.com » sleep http://poetryassignment.com { clever words go here } Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:02:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 This Old Year http://poetryassignment.com/2009/12/this-old-year/ http://poetryassignment.com/2009/12/this-old-year/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:45:31 +0000 Heather http://poetryassignment.com/?p=709 No fireworks, please
This one should go quietly,
alone in its sleep

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He would not stop for me
I chased Him hard with all my charms
But He said, “stay away!”

He resented me for leaving Him,
Jilting Him for books
But now I wanted Him back
Not just for His good looks.

He didn’t care; He ran away
Although I loved Him so
He took His case before a Judge
And got his TRO.

*With apologies to Emily Dickinson!

Assignment: Sleep

]]> http://poetryassignment.com/2008/12/insomnia/feed/ 0 Proposition in the backseat of a taxi http://poetryassignment.com/2008/12/proposition-in-the-backseat-of-a-taxi/ http://poetryassignment.com/2008/12/proposition-in-the-backseat-of-a-taxi/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:50:15 +0000 melissaoyler http://poetryassignment.com/?p=32 “But if I sleep with you I will fall in love with you,”
she said with eyes lowered and husky voice
her red lips so close to his that one false move
meant they’d be in over their heads.

They breathed into each other
and this decided everything.

“I have already fallen in love with you,”
was his response and she wondered if
this perfect man on this perfect evening
simply had the perfect words …

or was she – dreaming?

Cab ride home – one stop, not two

She took his hand and led him
down the hall and to her heart;
opened up the bedroom door
stopped to consider her own soul

wondered about turning back
pushed thoughts aside and let him in

because after all, if she was dreaming
that means this was only sleeping …

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