Neske Poetry

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• 260: I love how/(I think)...
• 259: This love is nowhere/it knows no...
• 258: How can I say (describe)/this meeting you (again)...
• 257: Walking/across the parking lot...
• 256: And I am singing/even though I don’t sing...
• 255: I long to be home tonight and/slightly drunk...
• 254: My eyes close in the middle of this poem/sleep deprived the motion...
• 253: A jumbo jet materializes/suddenly...
• 252: Show me the poem/which says:...
• 251: I love how/(I think)...
• 250: There is no happily/ever after for us...
• 249: I wanted to talk to you tonight/I wanted a conversation, thick...
• 248: I have recognized/(inside your glance)...
• 247: You have your/secret world,...
• 246: Cherry tree/Picture...
• 245: Sylvia Leaves/voices:...
• 244: O r a n g e/is the only...
• 243: The bicycles pass:/Electric moment...
• 242: Descending/my bicycle pushed...
• 241: I would like to say exactly/what I mean, but...
• 240: I don’t know/all these new people...
• 239: What do you really need to say…?/remove all your friction...
• 238: Where can we shout (our) poems to the stars?/I can’t think of one place...
• 237: I know there will be a someday/when I will no longer understand...
• 236: Where are you now, Kate O’ Brien?/Where do our lost opportunities go?...
• 235: sitting around/waiting for inspiration...
• 234: I wake up in a new/year with no pain in my head...
• 233: I’m listening to you as you sing/but I’m watching...
• 232: I’ve been without you for so long but/there still sings a seed of you...
• 231: Last night I went out/to stand on the small...
• 230: I want so much/my spirit is...
• 229: As soon as you imagine yourself/doing something holy...
• 228: Drunk in the park/four nights in a row...
• 227: I want you to turn away from me/turn away from the sound and fury of...
• 226: good morning world/I heard you this morning at dawn...
• 225: Our re-invention of newness/is a projection of our...
• 224: Why was I born with/only one...
• 223: This is not the poem/I wanted to write...
• 222: Jen yells:/“field trip”...
• 221: I cry/because I...
• 220: You are the new/life, and I want to tell you...
• 219: You tell me/you don’t know me...
• 218: I’m waiting/to cross the street...
• 217: 10:15 a.m./today:...
• 216: Climbing up out of the city’s/steel and glass center...
• 215: So I just saw you again today/it was the first time in 12 years...
• 214: I weep for you/I weep for...
• 213: I’m talking to you like/everything is completely normal...
• 212: I saw a muse!/a goddess! standing...
• 211: I was awake/when I awoke...
• 210: Five hours asleep/after 21 hours awake...
• 209: In Afghanistan/the Taliban...
• 208: I have put myself in/the arms of a woman...
• 207: When I go to hear a/“famous” poet read...
• 206: Sometimes/one step...
• 205: The only way the/wise may know anything of...
• 204: Yes, I am the fool/to save you from your folly!...
• 203: brown mud, excrement/and all of that other stuff—...
• 202: I’m not sure about this…/Every once in a while you find something...
• 201: I feel like Sleeping Beauty:/not alive, not dead, not awake, not asleep...
• 200: When I see you, I do not see/you as made of flesh...
• 199: I wake up/in the middle of my...
• 198: I don’t want you to ever/tell me...
• 197: What have you thought of/since our last time together?...
• 196: I want to touch your face/I want to be alone with you...
• 195: I want to touch you with the fingers/of my spirit and...
• 194: I enjoy just looking at you/quietly from across the room...
• 193: Waiting for the next train/in the station at somewhere...
• 192: The first time I saw you/I couldn’t believe you were real...
• 191: don’t hold on/don’t hold on...
• 190: I believe in the mountains/and the ability...
• 189: The first time/I saw you I didn’t...
• 188: Why do we spend so many of our precious notes/singing about what can’t be said, but only felt?...
• 187: What are you doing?/Live who you are right now...
• 186: Most of my poems are about the same thing/and most of them aren’t even very good...
• 185: My greatest fear;/my greatest fear is...
• 184: What is this drawing together?/We are but mere droplets...
• 183: It was one of those skies/with three layers of broken...
• 182: We go to places of great natural beauty/and you just sit with your eyes closed...
• 181: the first step/the first stone of the walk...
• 180: silence/my favorite topic...
• 179: Once when traveling i met a group of people leaning all in the same direction to hear a sound...
• 178: Don’t look for joy at the celebration/the counterfeits you find...
• 177: I know that I can perform miracles/NOT because I can feel molecules of air...
• 176.5: This is a buzz unlike/caffeine...
• 176: This is a buzz unlike/caffeine...
• 175: Again I find myself saying these things/that I have said so often before because...
• 174: I want to be free of/all these supposed to’s...
• 173: This week I wrote 187,000 poems/each one is a mile long and...
• 172: Nathan read one of his poems/one of his heart-breakingly beautiful poems...
• 171: I like to read and interpret signs/in all the ways they weren’t meant to be read...
• 170: Dream/as if waking were the dreaming...
• 169: Somewhere in the world/there is a saxophone playing...
• 168: I want to say thank you/to you who come here...
• 167: Monday night at the poetry open mic/two lovers making out...
• 166: What do you say/to the most beautiful person you know...
• 165: There is a new poetry growing/one not governed by lines or characters...
• 164: In a minute/I’m going to count down from three...
• 163: It is spring, and so/I go...
• 162: I see you looking at me/and I want to turn to you and say:...
• 161: I’ve seen you naked/on stage, in front of a microphone...
• 160: I want to know why/you can’t just walk up to some one...
• 159: I will no longer let myself be censored/by cultures, groups, or individuals...
• 158: It was on the mountain that I learned to do nothing...
• 157: we/are...
• 156: No matter how much I talk about freedom/the deepest part of me...
• 155: If you found/the very top of the world...
• 154: I asked you/what you had to say...
• 153: All of our thinking/lullabies our true consciousness...
• 152: These endings are what I have/the most problems with...
• 151: How long is ten minutes?/or eight?...
• 150: Be quiet/here the softest tear...
• 149: I find it so hard to believe/the child growing inside you...
• 148: There is no poem/that can say the...
• 147: I understand your wanting to be quiet with me/so we can see what is between us...
• 146: We neglect to mention/the backs of our hearts...
• 145: I’m always telling you what I won’t do/all my limitations...
• 144: I’ve been so afraid since I met you./Saying this to you scares me,...
• 143: I get so angry at myself!/Too many times I find myself doing...
• 142: When we start talking/we create a space around us...
• 141: I have no idea/what to say to you...
• 140: I like to come here and/watch the fish breathe...
• 139: There is no waking/and no sleeping...
• 138: So how do I tell you/I think you’ve found...
• 137: We don’t know each other/as we should...
• 136: “What kind of poem do you want?”/you asked...
• 135: You’ll never know how hard it was/for me to tell you...
• 134: Ask:/What are we searching for...
• 133: All this time/I’ve been saying poems...
• 132: Standing in the gateway/amid three open archways...
• 131: Sometimes you meet some one/and it’s like an explosion...
• 130: Some days I’m so in love/basking in the light of everything...
• 129: All your concerns/can all be dismissed...
• 128: My creator is a dance/a great molecular flow...
• 127: Falling water/empties...
• 126: I still have poems to write to you/whether you like it or not...
• 125: In the sun I get so excited and manic/when I smell the rain coming...
• 124: Everything speaks with a different language/the broom, the grass, this pen...
• 123: We go out into the wilderness/great mountains and virgin forests...
• 122: We pretend we are strangers/you and me...
• 121: We climb to reach these heights/to be purified like water...
• 120: I’m feeling this drawing-in again/this opening of possibility...
• 119: I look around and/Here you are again!...
• 118: I want to say something to you/without words...
• 117: Why do these poems/keep raising my voice to you?...
• 116: I cry out:/How can you remain so far away?!...
• 115: It’s one of those days/that I want to know the...
• 114: No more poems will I/write of you...
• 113: All this time/I’ve wanted to say...
• 112: It’s so hard to realize you’re alive sometimes/All this breath is so fleeting...
• 111: I slept outside last night/and dreamed of you...
• 110: None of these poems have titles/I cry them out of my center...
• 109: What were you doing/before this moment?...
• 108: People tell me that my poetry/reminds them of Rumi...
• 107: Your silence and distance obsesses me!/I want to be close enough for...
• 106: Every time I write these poems about you/they’re always saying the same things:...
• 105: How can you not want to/Strip down,...
• 104: I’m with you, moving, following/as you lead me through...
• 103: I am wind/life bestowing breath...
• 102: I go out/with all my wanting...
• 101: Individuality is not the truth/I want to unfold the folds...
• 100: What are you fighting for?/life and death?...
• 099: We are so much more/than ourselves...
• 098: Every time I'm drunk/tears burst out...
• 097: The pear tree/is blossoming...
• 096: We fall prey to this/severing quiet...
• 095: When you think you look foolish/I only see adventure and beauty...
• 094: Why am I so quiet with you?/mist rises up off the morning pond...
• 093: Somehow a seed of you/was planted in me...
• 092: I find myself always/looking for you...
• 091: Stop being an audience!/You're making me nervous...
• 090: A single strand of hair/moves...
• 089: Who is Jonathan?!/It's difficult to know...
• 088: I never knew the air was/so dense so palpable...
• 087: My friends are always telling me:/you always interrupt yourself...
• 086: I am thirsty for you/swimming inside you...
• 085: I'm starved for you/tonight...
• 084: My whole life there's been/all this distance...
• 083: How can I stay here late/when there may be...
• 082: What is this awe/I have for living...
• 081: I fear/I will never know you...
• 080: Ocean heal me with your/hurricanes...
• 079: Are you listening?/This is only breath,...
• 078: How safe and accepted barriers are!/How dangerous it seems...
• 077: How can I say/anything...
• 076: Sometimes I think of you/and have no idea what to say...
• 075: Like a deep drum beat/the echo of a rock...
• 074: I don't write these/poems about you...
• 073: I have no token/to give you...
• 072: These words I write/to you and give you...
• 071: My love/is so silent...
• 070: There/just over there...
• 069: The price of/all this joy...
• 068: During this quiet moment/we call dawn...
• 067: I wanted to know you/but I knew I would've...
• 066: I have to fall in love/before I write these poems...
• 065: Some do not like to read/these poems they've written...
• 064: How can I reach past/all this air...
• 063: I try to write/words down to you,...
• 062: Last evening/I glanced into your eyes...
• 061: When I found out I loved you/I attacked the person who told me...
• 060: I smooth the waters to a/serene stillness...
• 059: I cast my soul out into the ocean/a circle is spreading across the world...
• 058: I take another/step on the dusty road...
• 057: I'm tired, so tired of/these words...
• 056: These late nights/why do I write words to fill them...
• 055: This resounding silence/surrounds, penetrates, encompasses me...
• 054: Be careful/How quickly...
• 053: There is nothing/that is not totally alive...
• 052: I don't want you to listen/to what I am saying...
• 051: What you see/It lies to you and...
• 050: It's not out there/It's not out there...
• 049: Mystic wine/Mystic wind...
• 048: simplicity is emptiness/emptiness is simplicity...
• 047: I am the ocean/I want to drown you...
• 046: There is so much to give up/so much to let go of...
• 045: These poems are not about/understanding...
• 044: A deep gash opens the inside of me/I am bleeding all the blood that...
• 043: I am hungry to fill you/with passion for existence --...
• 042: The sun is a god/it stands itself...
• 041: If we saw ourselves like this/we would be terrified...
• 040: Amid this sun and rain/what can I say...
• 039: distant street light/shakes...
• 038: I want to stop the world/to look for you but...
• 037: I try to savor this/alchemy, this simplicity of...
• 036: I want this wind to be/a road wrapped around this...
• 035: There are so many things/I can only say to you...
• 034: silence, (sweet) silence,/silence...
• 033: I only know what I want to say/but the words are strangers...
• 032: Take my bones/consume my desire...
• 031: I want to go/where the glaciers...
• 030: I remember love/that familiar stranger...
• 029: These words/are pale substitutes...
• 028: Today is a day of poetry/of motion...
• 027: I want my life to/be a dream an ecstatic...
• 026: The light/drops and...
• 025: I climbed the mountain/hawks were beneath me crying...
• 024: I eat the poem/trying to consume it...
• 023: Those seeking immortality all/eventually go to the mountains...
• 022: In the summer/the earth's surface is...
• 021: In this heat everything distant/is a shimmer...
• 020: I was complacent when I first/climbed these mountains and...
• 019: I fall in love so easily--/like a flower turning,...
• 018: When I see you/all my banished...
• 017: I watched as the wind/married the white...
• 016: The rain greets/me like a young...
• 015: I drink poetry/like caffeine...
• 014: I climb only/to choose...
• 013: Walking home I/touch a tree and...
• 012: One of John Constable's/skies is over me...
• 011: The sun is so/much higher than...
• 010: Did you see the sun/rise this morning?...
• 009: Sunrise on a cloudy/morning...
• 008: I'm running/blind...
• 007: The cold blue beauty of morning mountains/rises from the horizon and travels up the...
• 006: I want to run into the sunrise and/embrace that golden nectar until...
• 005: I revel in my mania./I cry out,...
• 004: I look/down at...
• 003: The day is wonder/Everything I see appears to be glory...
• 002: Green!/The grass is green as green as my soul is gold:...
• 001: Ha, ha! /I laugh at them; only fools could think...