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for lack of a simile --

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every saturday,
i scribble away at words
that have prettyyellowcolours, but mean nothing.
because if i told you what was true about the both of us, it would be:

we had something special,
but now it's gone.
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that's all.

because i don't have any clever similes about
magic and love and how fire falls into ash.


there's just me, and the page, and the stories
i tell you about how we are fire, we are the ocean
and we are the shore.
if you misread that title carefully, it says 'for lack of a smile'. that's what i love about those similes -- it's almostmaybepossibly saying something else about things that are as bright as your grin.

anyway, do let me know what you think! :heart:
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betwixtthepages's avatar
Hello!

As part of a Found Poetry: Titles as Art project ( brought to us by =SilverInkblot and used in our new group, #TheTitlePage ), I've used the title of this beautiful deviation in a poem here:

Moonlight Affairs

Thank you so much! :heart: