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Standoffish Type

Posted on May 30, 2024May 30, 2024 by Erin B.
I am afraid that
the standoffish type
is the only kind I love.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged afraid, love, standoffish, type

Best State

Posted on November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 by Erin B.
In the silence
a heart beat heavily,
brooding
was her best state.

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Posted in Poems on Anger, Poems on SadnessTagged brooding, heart, heavily, silence, state

Dream Evaporated

Posted on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 by Erin B.
You aren't here.
You're a dream evaporated.
A hurt winding
in the ruins of me.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged dream, evaporated, hurt, ruins, winding

Icy Veneer

Posted on August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 by Erin B.
Under that icy veneer
of jealousy
was an apparent
expression of love.

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Posted in Poem on Love, Poems on SadnessTagged expression, icy, jealousy, love, veneer

Lonely Bird

Posted on May 6, 2023May 6, 2023 by Erin B.
She was a lonely bird
full of unchanging melancholy.
She felt a terrible appeal
to detach from everything.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on Life, Poems on SadnessTagged appeal, bird, detach, everything, felt, lonely, melancholy, terrible, unchanging

Self Pity

Posted on April 27, 2023April 27, 2023 by Erin B.
To be so wrapped up
in self,
is dangerous: self pity
and sense of woe
betray you.

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Posted in Poems on Anger, Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged betray, dangerous, self, sense, woe, wrapped

A Death Americanized

Posted on April 27, 2023April 27, 2023 by Erin B.
Barren
and weary of money -
a death Americanized.
How weary the world was.

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Posted in Poems on Life, Poems on Sadness, Poems on TravelingTagged americanized, barren, death, money, weary, world

Happy Enough

Posted on April 22, 2023April 22, 2023 by Erin B.
You make me
happy enough,
somehow.

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Posted in Poems on Happiness, Poems on SadnessTagged enough, happy, somehow

No One

Posted on March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 by Erin B.
You are a stranger
living
by yourself;
no one to love.

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Posted in Poems on Heartbreak, Poems on SadnessTagged living, love, one, stranger, yourself

Narrow Loneliness

Posted on March 2, 2023March 2, 2023 by Erin B.
I grew irritable and restless,
confined
to narrow loneliness:
sullen and silent
in a sleep
eternally.

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Posted in Poems on Anger, Poems on SadnessTagged eternally, irritable, loneliness, narrow, restless, silent, sleep, sullen

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