In the bluish greenish
Golden sunset of her eyes
Peace unveiled itself
Warmth erased fear
With a sweet soft smile
She healed the cracks
In my broken heart
Category: Accidental Life and Love Poems
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Careful
Lies you tell yourself
Hold a deeper danger
You will trap yourself
In a gaslit room
Of your own making
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Be wary
Steer clear of Mister Maybes
Wait for the gentleman
Who loves you
With his true heart
Always
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Authentic
Do not let insecurity
Rob you of your honesty
Your imperfect self
Is exactly who this world
Needs you to be
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Beauty and the Beast
In your life, you’ll be brave, kind, and caring
You’ll be unfair, angry, and hurtful
You’ll hate yourself, scare someone, save someone
You’ll do what’s right and not give up
You’ll lose hope and find it again
You’ll let someone in and let someone go
You’ll say I “love you.” before it’s too late
You will be both Beauty and the Beast
Of not so long ago
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Night Sky
My beauty is not defined
By your pair of eyes
No more than the sky decides
Which is the loveliest
Of its glistening night stars
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Architecture
We get to construct our lives
With evolving memories
Built more for our future
Than the fading past
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True Self
The key to happiness?
Be honest with yourself
You already know the answers
Dare to admit the questions
That is how you find your way
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The stage
Took a lot of bows
From center stage
For twenty years
Exited stage left
Out of necessity
When life zig zagged
Down a different road
Then the curtain went down
On everything and everyone
Who wanted a place in theater
For two hours plus
In it together
In the stillness
Of human connection
With the recognition
Of the familiar
Of all that is fleeting
Weeping from a heart awakened
Laughing from a soul relieved
A collective calm remembrance
Of what it is to be us
I offer my resignation
From the periphery
Entering stage right
Without an exit strategy
Out of necessity
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Us
I was chronically busy
Until I met you
My relentlessness faded
Your presence a lullaby
Calming my forgotten soul
When you gently held my hand
Unexpectedly one night
I finally saw the stars
In the delicate promise
Of our unfolding love
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Yours
Do not allow
Anyone’s assessment
Of who you are
Dictate your life
It is you alone
Who gets to decide
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Dazzling memories
Dancing through my heart and mind
Of what might have been
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Nowadays
Your greatest secret is
What you wrote down
Down on a piece of paper
Never showed anyone
Tore up and threw away
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Beauty
The beast was blinded
By the love light in her eyes
She could sense his pain
As he turned away
He was built to attack her
Instead she had broken him
She was free to flee
Yet she chose to stay
Her eyes had reflected
Love hidden in his heart
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Silence
What if you are
Both trying
To get up the nerve
To say how you feel
Yet stay silent
Convincing yourself
If he loved you
He would say something
If she loved you
She would say something
Silence is worse than fear
For affairs of the heart
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I have no list of adjectives
For a life partner
No type I am after
Only one question
Be my emergency contact
I will be yours
As long as we both shall live
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You are not ordinary
Abandon the exhaustion
To confirm your worth
In the eyes of others
Your simply being human
Will always be enough
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Luck in Love
If you feel unlucky in love
Follow your trail of I love yous
Go all the way back to the first one
Do not skip over the one that hurt most
Count the one that was unspoken
Admit you ran away from one
See the path and the patterns
Break them and heal your heart
Find love
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Waiting
He initiated it
She insisted
To her skeptical friend
He had ignored her
For three full weeks
It did not matter
She firmly insisted
He asked me out
He just never
Followed up
On our date
It was his idea
He meant it
She said desperately
Staring at her phone
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Quiet
When you are silent
Your heart will speak to you
Listen and feel the answers
To the questions
You are afraid to admit
You need to ask yourself
To find the peace you seek
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Beauty’s Beast
The beast was blinded
By the love light in her eyes
She could sense his pain
As he turned away
He was built to attack her
Instead she had broken him
She was free to flee
Yet she chose to stay
Her eyes had reflected
Love hidden in his heart
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Locked In
I have got the key
Here inside my pocket
Sliding it under the door
Please let me out
Depression locked me in
I try to turn the knob
It will not budge
I need outside help
lease let me out
Knock if you can hear me
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A Lesson
She had a bad habit
Of putting herself down
Wincing at compliments
Playing down praise
Not believing those
Who saw her worth
Until someone said
Sorry to criticize
You are too hard
On yourself
Always believing
Her critics
She decided she must
Be kind to herself
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A Fighter
A life of perseverance
Is a life well lived
You have seen the dark
You have found the light
You have been wounded
You have healed yourself
You have lost and won
Endured highs and lows
You have lived a life
You fiercely loved
You never stopped
Fighting for it
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Blush
Frantically trying
To wipe away
Her frozen teardrops
Giving away her feelings
He took her hand
She loved him so
Her hot tears melted
Her frozen ones
He wiped the water
From her cheeks gently
With his woolen scarf
Now warm with the blush
Of requited love
Poems of Pandemic Days by Alice Curley 