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Lydia Rae Bush Poetry

Tag: romance

Harbor

February 3, 2023 Alphabet RavineLeave a comment

Your respect for me stands as tall and immovable
as the cliff. You ebb and flow,
as the lapping waves.

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Collide

December 23, 2022December 30, 2022 Alphabet RavineLeave a comment

I love you with
all the relaxation

in my shoulders
as your lats

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Together

November 11, 2022November 10, 2022 Alphabet Ravine2 Comments

If I love you and you love me, 
we both I Love You, even as
we flip each other’s pronouns ’round, 

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100

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Alphabet Ravine2 Comments

old words, new ways
different chapter, same change
always some cents short

hazel

October 3, 2022 Alphabet Ravine5 Comments

mosaic around irises,
glowing between eyelashes

green, gold, yellow, and brown,
like fresh leaves on autumn ground

each glance I give:
my heart’s footprints

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The Nameless One

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 Alphabet Ravine5 Comments

Loves- older, newer-
convene,
form a cohort,
whisper conjectures to name her love.

Love is ever Strong,
eight months hardly Quick,
and the greatest myth
is that love cannot come again.

Loves come closer, with
Ardent, Intense.
Yet, still they puzzle
on their multitude.

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Excruciate

April 6, 2022February 10, 2023 Alphabet Ravine2 Comments

What I don’t know how to describe is the pain,
the brutality of saying no,
the agony of walking away,
prying my own hand, and making him go.

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Our Old Getaway

March 1, 2022February 28, 2022 Alphabet Ravine7 Comments

The heart building… … …All the good, true,
right, and real … locked inside-
I will cherish it,
wear it
like
a
locket,
open it up
and smell,
inhale
deep,
cry myself to sleep,
and smile
one of the genuine smiles
as each of the surround miles
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The Break-Up

February 22, 2022February 21, 2022 Alphabet Ravine6 Comments

Severing,
shredding them off of your side
in a burn that will twinge with each
move and stride.

It will only sear
a lot-

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More Than All the Space

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Alphabet Ravine12 Comments

You have no act or game,
but the boy with the guard up gets pretty far,
so you follow him at a distance, down the path he paves.

You take my consent to him as your encouragement,
and though it would have been so unlike you,
you should have used your privileges sooner-
You had them before he did.
Still, your truth is perfect-

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