Poems I submitted to the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest

He=It

Left

Left me here

I cried

I wanted it

Him

Not to go

It left

Never to come back

Did it see?

Can it see?

Did it realize?

I wanted to leave

Leave and never come back with it

Fly through the sky like they did

Fly like they did in already take me there

Listen to the songs with it

Move from place to place

Knowing there will be a let down

That oh so beautiful letdown

Waiting for me

It left

I said nothing

No protest

No fight

I didn’t even try

It left

It left me with that one moment

Its smile

Its breath

The smell of gum

The dislike of jolly ranchers

Brown eyes

Brown hair

Gone

Maybe

Maybe next time

I’ll dare to move

Ask it not to leave

Stay a little longer

Before it leaves for greatness

For the chance to play

I never knew

How could I

It never told

I never asked

And it left

And I’m proud

Proud of it

Proud of me

And this pride will tear me down

Every picture already does

Every reminder of its existence

Brings me so close to insanity

The tears the laughs

So much closer to insanity

If its there then I want to be to

So much closer to my sanity

It’s an obsession almost

You could say that

I pray every day

And it brings me so much closer to my sanity

Beauty

Human Beauty

thrown in a batch

mixed together

with a hint of God

just a hint

imagine Human Beauty

with more than a hint

already so beautiful

and then more

unimaginable

beauty so great

its only purpose

is to be seen

to remain untouched

beauty so great

the need to touch is unnecessary

the only thing needed

wanted

is to see

and to look

to see illustrious beauty

Inhumanly Beauty