Sweet Hermione




7th poem

I really like the assignment or whatever you like to call it, this time. 'Cause what gets your poetic soul fired up more than music? Well, I wrote this poem and I got myself inspired by listening to Bold as Love by John Mayer (originally it's not his, it's Jimi Hendrix's, I think?), but then I based my poem upon Love like Winter by AFI. I've always loved the line love like winter, 'cause I love love and I love winter, and especially the last line is sort of about that. 

It has no title, but I'm working on that. 

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cover me fast in poems of paperback 
i'll write down my soul for you, even if i lack 
a million words to tell you in a thousand ways that 
the question's written where i fold 

do you know the lies i've sold 
to a ice-cold crowd of bright red eyes? 
but only yours illuminate the cries 
that creep out of the pause 

hesitant in the voice of a lover 
i hold you close, mouth seeks for cover 
oh, those ruby eyes that ruby shine 
wrap your heart around the warmth i've missed 

i'd forsake the blue lips of those softly kissed 
"you never know, you know?" 
words drawn from your lips 
"no, for i never know" 
now's the right time to exchange our whips 

dress me slow in novels of old 
i'll whisper the saddest story ever told 
a thousand words to tell you in a million ways that 
the answer's revealed as i unfold 

slow and gently, shivering, into your hands of cold.


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