Lovelorn Poets

From Anchorage to Zebulon: In Search of Missed Connections

Lovelorn Poet in Savannah, GA: The Aperture

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Early One October Morning by Nick Kenrick

Early One October Morning by Nick Kenrick

I am happiest in the half-light
of early morning; before lovers
find their clothes, and hangovers
smoke cigarettes; before the
aperture narrows and whispers
become hurricanes; before the
world is divided into hope and
hopelessness; before luck plays
its part in all this; and before
God’s and my own excuses.

-Bison Jack

 

Her Two Cents

 

 

before

the aperture narrows
in early morning half-light

hangovers, cigarettes, whispers, excuses
hurricanes, hope and hopelessness

I am happiest in the before
of before

find before
become before 

Lovelorn Poet in Denver, CO: Sunken Hopes

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World Water Day by Ibrahim Areef

World Water Day by Ibrahim Areef

Hopes and dreams
Of two dozen pence gleams
At the bottom of shoals,
To which we relinquish our souls.
Where the Earth sunders
We deliver a plunder,
As though with time
Our words will rhyme.
Just look for a moment,
And the glint is absent.
You can hold onto yours,
And earn what you implore.
Keep the water clean
As you pursue a dream.
Your life will begin
Once you see what’s within.

Her Two Cents

 

 

Hopes and dreams                     Of two dozen pence gleams
At the bottom of shoals,            To which we relinquish our souls.
Where the Earth sunders         We deliver a plunder,
As though with time                  Our words will rhyme.
Just look for a moment,           And the glint is absent.
You can hold onto yours,         And earn what you implore.
Keep the water clean                As you pursue a dream.
Your life will begin                   Once you see what’s within.

 

Lovelorn Poet in Flagstaff, AZ: My Constitution

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Declaration of Independence by ArteZoe

Declaration of Independence by ArteZoe

I look at her words thru glass
the way one looks at the Declaration of Independence
And I have two copies
One is a Xerox
that stays in my left shirt pocket
like an invisible protector
The other hangs on my wall
Better than the best Picasso
And when I feel the weight of my scars
I look at her words

Her Two Cents

 

 

The Declaration of Independence

I look
the way one looks at the
other best Picasso

I have
in a left shirt pocket
my two copies
one is better than the Xerox

and when
I look
at her words
at her words thru glass

I feel
the weight of my scars
like an invisible protector
that stays and hangs on my wall

Lovelorn Poet in Raleigh-Durham, NC: To Miss A Kiss

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The Kiss by Constanza

The Kiss by Constanza

Did we catch a memory
Of you and me
Of you and me
And now I see
That you SEE
You in me
You and me

Oh, what did I Miss
With a kiss
And a kiss
Do I Miss
Do you Miss
Miss our kiss
Miss our kiss

Souls together in A’maze
In a maze
In A’maze
And for days
And days
It’s a maze
It’s A’mazing ways

And our Love, like a dove in nigh’
We will sigh
We will sigh
Our sigh’n language
Of Love,
As morning comes
Morning comes
Two lone doves
We’re In Love
We’re In Love…

~your poet~

Her Two Cents

 

 

 

Did we catch a memory
now I that
Oh, what did with

Souls together for a’mazing ways
like a dove nigh’ sigh’n language

Of
As
Two lone doves

Lovelorn Poet in NYC: For All We Know

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for all we know

For All We Know

For all we know
This might only be a dream
Truth is..
We come and we go
Like ripples in the stream
Tomorrow was made for some
But tomorrow may never come
We may never meet again
Until the last minute
I’ll hold out my hand
And my heart will be in it

Her Two Cents

Lovelorn Poets Her Two Cents Icon Tomorrow was made for some
This might only be a dream
We may never meet again
Until the last minute

But tomorrow may never come
Like ripples in the stream
I’ll hold out my hand
We come and we go

For all we know
Truth is…

And my heart will be in it

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