Caroline Bulleck Poems

You caused my tears to flow
Frightened me for enjoyment
Why do you hate me so?
Did I deserve such torment?
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I feel the crushing pain in my soul
That knocks me out of my body
And collapse into a black hole
How does it still hurt when I'm empty?
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All
Bats
Course
Downwind
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Life to me, is like a pair of jeans
Some of them shouldn't be seen
Others are too short
Or has begun to distort
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Hiding behind the leaves
Tightly wound amongst its thorns
The drooping bud grieves
When full petals it adorns
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I want to make the pen dance across the paper
The ink to reflect what I feel
I want the rhyme to match the beat of my heart
The reader's breath I want to steal
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She carries every misshapen, rough problem
Works over them tirelessly until she reaches the sea
Where she releases her smooth stones of wisdom
To go where they need to be
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I run inside, lock the door.
Clutching you close to my chest,
No one will interrupt us evermore.
Not wasting time, I get undressed.
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