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Your skin has a memory.
In ten, twenty, thirty years from now,
your skin will show the re...
JANA ELSTON![]()
so your father told you once
that you were his princess
you won't see the castle
you ...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS And like flowers in the fields, that make wonderful views, when we stand side-by-side in our wonderf...
MICHAEL TYLER![]()
Compete, but not out of envy.
Contest, but not out of hostility.
Treat your rivals with re...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO![]()
...
You can colour your eyes…
You can put on your skin tattoo…
...
- ...
DEYTH BANGER We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us.
We dare not talk of the fire, for ...
LUCY H. PEARCE![]()
As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
PABLO NERUDA whatever you do
be gentle with yourself.
you don’t just live
in this world
or ...
SANOBER KHAN![]()
Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.
Feel it sweep along your skin in an inv...
VERA NAZARIAN![]()
KINGDOM OF THE WOMB
From her thighs, she gives you life
And how you treat she who gi...
SUZY KASSEM![]()
Dreaming at the Ballet"
The truth is, goddesses are lousy in bed.
They will do anyth...
JACK GILBERT Your smile breaks my heart,
And your laughter burns my skin,
And if I had to tell you how ...
MARGO T. ROSE![]()
From her thighs, she gives you life
And how you treat she who gives you life
Shows how muc...
SUZY KASSEM While they all ink their skin,
I crave something permanent within.
Bare your soul
Ope...
MELODY LEE![]()
You don't know when you're twenty-three.
You don't know what it really means to crawl into some...
RAINBOW ROWELL Nothing touches your skin of sweat
(meltdown of oceanic kisses)
when the purple light
BEAR STEP![]()
The greatest thinkers
have attempted to find
who we are
where we come from
a...
KAMAND KOJOURI over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink AMANDA LOVELACE Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker
do you remember
when the earth was just a bab...
MARCUS AMAKER![]()
Looking for Your Face
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI![]()
LOVE IS A FLOWER
Treat your relationship
As if you are growing
The most beautif...
SUZY KASSEM The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes.
Breathing your air…. touching yo...
RANATA SUZUKI I came up with a new reason
To write your name today
I plagiarized each letter
From a...
JUSTIN WETCH![]()
Make a memory with your children,
Spend some time to show you care;
Toys and trinkets can't ...
ELAINE HARDT![]()
XVI
I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
PABLO NERUDA …I went away from your side,
in love without knowing it.
Now I don’t know how your eye...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA![]()
The yellow glistens.
It glistens with various yellows,
Citrons, oranges and greens
Fl...
WALLACE STEVENS There's a depth in you that has yet been discovered.
Abyssal and buried
it terrifies your ...
B. YOUNGZ![]()
Read this to yourself. Read it silently.
Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound.
Listen...
BO BURNHAM Jagged needle, wicked lies
From under the skin, pluck evil eyes.
Destiny change from pain ...
LAWREN LEO Find out what faith is and how you can put it into practice.
Learn how to pray, and do it.
J. GRANT HOWARD![]()
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”
HARPER LEE ![]()
I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouth...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS tread carefully
into my life, my dear.
the currents
are strong.
you...
SANOBER KHAN![]()
I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI![]()
And tonight our skin, our bones,
that have survived our fathers,
will meet, delicate in th...
ANNE SEXTON![]()
forcing manhood
on boys with skin
still made of
silk and mother's love
is cruel
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO![]()
If I die today, will you remember me tomorrow?
The love I'm leaving behind, will you care to bo...
MUNIA KHAN You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap.
"Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay wit...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER![]()
To all those who care,
You can't forever.
Time steals the years,
And your reflectio...
CRYSTAL WOODS Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
T...
GREEN DAY I wonder what became of you, your Johnny
Rotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.
You'd have bee...
KRISTEN HENDERSON![]()
Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?
Mormon Mother: Well it has...
TONY KUSHNER We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE![]()
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
K...
DR. SEUSS![]()
CALL YOURSELF
Look deep in the mirror
And say: 'I LOVE YOU'
And immediately
SUZY KASSEM![]()
Let our love chase all clouds away
Hold my hand and feel the day
Your footsteps guide my s...
MUNIA KHAN i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA.![]()
I wrote a poem to the moon
But no one noticed it;
Although I hoped that late or soon
Someo...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE If I could have just one wish,
I would wish to wake up everyday
to the sound of your breat...
COURTNEY KUCHTA![]()
She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched f...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN![]()
No matter how close, you are always too far
My eyes are drawn everywhere you are.
I...
CORA CARMACK![]()
Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You
take delight in vexing me. Y...
JANE AUSTEN Who was it that hurt you,
stole light out of your eyes?
Cut a hole in your heart
and ...
JOHN MARK GREEN![]()
No Goodbye'
The floods of tears,
Flow for thee,
As I remember how it used to be...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS![]()
A word of consolation
may sweetly touch the ear.
Now and then a quiet song
will clea...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume ADYASHANTI ![]()
I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or ...
TONY KUSHNER My friend once told me
she liked this guy because of his hands
And I found it absurd that ...
CAROL SHLYAKHOVA you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together. AVA. ![]()
MOTHER IS WATER
I wish I could
Shower your head with flowers
And anoint your fe...
SUZY KASSEM![]()
Does anyone in this room have it?"
"No, Chris, no one here has it."
"How do you know?"
CHRIS CRUTCHER do you dare to step in-
to the vulnerable black, stripped
to the soul with human blindnes...
BETH MOREY![]()
You write poems with your fingertips
And I keep listening to the songs written on my skin
...
SANHITA BARUAH![]()
I've missed you, Sebastian."
"Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the...
LISA KLEYPAS You are the king no doubt, but in one respect,
at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. ROBERT FAGLES ![]()
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet y...
DEREK WALCOTT![]()
Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON![]()
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. PABLO NERUDA ![]()
It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined
Half of the night with our old friend
Who�...
THOM GUNN![]()
The door is cracked
We used to meet
like water does land
no
not that
...
DAVE MATTHES I roam the streets, silent and still,
I look for You, in each and everything.
I have come ...
SYED MURTAZA HAROON Seek a sanctuary,
Respect it, as it is holy,
Walk into it with a bare mind, bare feet and...
MASTER JIN KWON![]()
My son, do not forget my teaching,
But let your heart keep my commandments;
For l...
ANONYMOUS Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single dis...
RYōKAN Villanelle - Roland Leighton
Violets from Plug Street Wood,
Sweet, I send you overse...
ROLAND LEIGHTON![]()
Better associations
__________________
If you associate yourself with a change maker...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR![]()
You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be
The familiar shackles you can't tell from ...
SANHITA BARUAH![]()
Better Associations:
If you associate yourself with a change maker,
Your life will b...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR![]()
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER![]()
I pity the woman who will love you
when I am done. She will show up
to your first date wit...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS![]()
Power
Living in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divul...
ADRIENNE RICH i love good cries,
loud sobs that soak your pillow
that kind that come at the end
of ...
MADISEN KUHN![]()
Love.
Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
Flowers I ache from the perfumes of s...
PABLO NERUDA![]()
BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLE
You can
Lose a child
Or a parent,
The lov...
SUZY KASSEM![]()
This is a day of celebration!
Today, we are divorcing the past
and marrying the present. KAMAND KOJOURI ![]()
I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
...
LANGSTON HUGHES![]()
For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE![]()
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE![]()
Funny thing, your brain,
how it always functions on one
level or another. How, even stuck ...
ELLEN HOPKINS![]()
WHAT IS TRUTH?
Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM ...flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender s...
MUSE![]()
Girl, bite. Girl, devour. Girl, don't forgive.
Girl, stay angry. Girl, be selfish.
Girl, w...
CAITLYN SIEHL we met one strange summer
in a regular tangle of sticky webs
you had the air o...
MOONSHINE NOIRE![]()
HOW
do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so<...
ELLEN HOPKINS Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirab...
WILLIAM MARTIN Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins."
"I will kill twe...
STEVE HOCKENSMITH![]()
Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look like a world, lying in surrender.
My ...
PABLO NERUDA
In ten, twenty, thirty years from now,
your skin will show the re...
JANA ELSTON
so your father told you oncethat you were his princess
you won't see the castle
you ...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS And like flowers in the fields, that make wonderful views, when we stand side-by-side in our wonderf...
MICHAEL TYLER
Compete, but not out of envy.Contest, but not out of hostility.
Treat your rivals with re...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
...You can colour your eyes…
You can put on your skin tattoo…
...
- ...
DEYTH BANGER We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us.
We dare not talk of the fire, for ...
LUCY H. PEARCE
As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
PABLO NERUDA whatever you do
be gentle with yourself.
you don’t just live
in this world
or ...
SANOBER KHAN
Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.Feel it sweep along your skin in an inv...
VERA NAZARIAN
KINGDOM OF THE WOMBFrom her thighs, she gives you life
And how you treat she who gi...
SUZY KASSEM
Dreaming at the Ballet"The truth is, goddesses are lousy in bed.
They will do anyth...
JACK GILBERT Your smile breaks my heart,
And your laughter burns my skin,
And if I had to tell you how ...
MARGO T. ROSE
From her thighs, she gives you lifeAnd how you treat she who gives you life
Shows how muc...
SUZY KASSEM While they all ink their skin,
I crave something permanent within.
Bare your soul
Ope...
MELODY LEE
You don't know when you're twenty-three.You don't know what it really means to crawl into some...
RAINBOW ROWELL Nothing touches your skin of sweat
(meltdown of oceanic kisses)
when the purple light
BEAR STEP
The greatest thinkers have attempted to find
who we are
where we come from
a...
KAMAND KOJOURI over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her
that
the ink
do you remember
when the earth was just a bab...
MARCUS AMAKER
Looking for Your FaceFrom the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
LOVE IS A FLOWERTreat your relationship
As if you are growing
The most beautif...
SUZY KASSEM The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes.
Breathing your air…. touching yo...
RANATA SUZUKI I came up with a new reason
To write your name today
I plagiarized each letter
From a...
JUSTIN WETCH
Make a memory with your children, Spend some time to show you care;
Toys and trinkets can't ...
ELAINE HARDT
XVII love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
PABLO NERUDA …I went away from your side,
in love without knowing it.
Now I don’t know how your eye...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA
The yellow glistens.It glistens with various yellows,
Citrons, oranges and greens
Fl...
WALLACE STEVENS There's a depth in you that has yet been discovered.
Abyssal and buried
it terrifies your ...
B. YOUNGZ
Read this to yourself. Read it silently.Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound.
Listen...
BO BURNHAM Jagged needle, wicked lies
From under the skin, pluck evil eyes.
Destiny change from pain ...
LAWREN LEO Find out what faith is and how you can put it into practice.
Learn how to pray, and do it.
J. GRANT HOWARD
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—” 
I am not the first person you loved.You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouth...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS tread carefully
into my life, my dear.
the currents
are strong.
you...
SANOBER KHAN
I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
And tonight our skin, our bones,that have survived our fathers,
will meet, delicate in th...
ANNE SEXTON
forcing manhoodon boys with skin
still made of
silk and mother's love
is cruel
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO
If I die today, will you remember me tomorrow?The love I'm leaving behind, will you care to bo...
MUNIA KHAN You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap.
"Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay wit...
LUCY CHRISTOPHER
To all those who care, You can't forever.
Time steals the years,
And your reflectio...
CRYSTAL WOODS Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
T...
GREEN DAY I wonder what became of you, your Johnny
Rotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.
You'd have bee...
KRISTEN HENDERSON
Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?Mormon Mother: Well it has...
TONY KUSHNER We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE
And will you succeed?Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
K...
DR. SEUSS
CALL YOURSELFLook deep in the mirror
And say: 'I LOVE YOU'
And immediately
SUZY KASSEM
Let our love chase all clouds awayHold my hand and feel the day
Your footsteps guide my s...
MUNIA KHAN i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA.
I wrote a poem to the moon But no one noticed it;
Although I hoped that late or soon
Someo...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE If I could have just one wish,
I would wish to wake up everyday
to the sound of your breat...
COURTNEY KUCHTA
She had blue skin,And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched f...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
No matter how close, you are always too far My eyes are drawn everywhere you are.
I...
CORA CARMACK
Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. Y...
JANE AUSTEN Who was it that hurt you,
stole light out of your eyes?
Cut a hole in your heart
and ...
JOHN MARK GREEN
No Goodbye'The floods of tears,
Flow for thee,
As I remember how it used to be...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
A word of consolation may sweetly touch the ear.
Now and then a quiet song
will clea...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume
I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or ... TONY KUSHNER My friend once told me
she liked this guy because of his hands
And I found it absurd that ...
CAROL SHLYAKHOVA you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.
MOTHER IS WATERI wish I could
Shower your head with flowers
And anoint your fe...
SUZY KASSEM
Does anyone in this room have it?""No, Chris, no one here has it."
"How do you know?"
CHRIS CRUTCHER do you dare to step in-
to the vulnerable black, stripped
to the soul with human blindnes...
BETH MOREY
You write poems with your fingertipsAnd I keep listening to the songs written on my skin
...
SANHITA BARUAH
I've missed you, Sebastian.""Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the...
LISA KLEYPAS You are the king no doubt, but in one respect,
at least, I am your equal: the right to reply.
Love After LoveThe time will come
when, with elation
you will greet y...
DEREK WALCOTT
Voodoo GirlHer skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
It was your birthday, we had drunk and dinedHalf of the night with our old friend
Who�...
THOM GUNN
The door is crackedWe used to meet
like water does land
no
not that
...
DAVE MATTHES I roam the streets, silent and still,
I look for You, in each and everything.
I have come ...
SYED MURTAZA HAROON Seek a sanctuary,
Respect it, as it is holy,
Walk into it with a bare mind, bare feet and...
MASTER JIN KWON
My son, do not forget my teaching,But let your heart keep my commandments;
For l...
ANONYMOUS Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single dis...
RYōKAN Villanelle - Roland Leighton
Violets from Plug Street Wood,
Sweet, I send you overse...
ROLAND LEIGHTON
Better associations__________________
If you associate yourself with a change maker...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from ...
SANHITA BARUAH
Better Associations:If you associate yourself with a change maker,
Your life will b...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How far you go in life depends onyour being tender with the young,
compassionate with the...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
I pity the woman who will love youwhen I am done. She will show up
to your first date wit...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS
PowerLiving in the earth-deposits of our history
Today a backhoe divul...
ADRIENNE RICH i love good cries,
loud sobs that soak your pillow
that kind that come at the end
of ...
MADISEN KUHN
Love.Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
Flowers I ache from the perfumes of s...
PABLO NERUDA
BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLEYou can
Lose a child
Or a parent,
The lov...
SUZY KASSEM
This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the past
and marrying the present.
I will take your heart.I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
...
LANGSTON HUGHES
For Equilibrium, a Blessing:Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and sways
The heart ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Funny thing, your brain,how it always functions on one
level or another. How, even stuck ...
ELLEN HOPKINS
WHAT IS TRUTH?Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM ...flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender s...
MUSE
Girl, bite. Girl, devour. Girl, don't forgive.Girl, stay angry. Girl, be selfish.
Girl, w...
CAITLYN SIEHL we met one strange summer
in a regular tangle of sticky webs
you had the air o...
MOONSHINE NOIRE
HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so<...
ELLEN HOPKINS Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirab...
WILLIAM MARTIN Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins."
"I will kill twe...
STEVE HOCKENSMITH
Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,you look like a world, lying in surrender.
My ...
PABLO NERUDA
