Dylan Rivera Poems

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1.
Those Who Cannot Speak

Owls create shadows that hurdle with trepidation.
Their eyes cut behind your ears
to keep you from listening to their words unsaid.
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2.
Identity Crisis

Stand tall on rooftops.
Make them dropp their gluttony holes,
buoy their focus,
and hinge their snickers,
onto uneasiness.
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3.
Travels

I shall not find a traveller
with heavy bags filled of tree bark
thick and brown
like the clothes I wear
and the weight I carry
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4.
Library

We’re all rats.
Our fingers typing,
Sounding like mice,
Scattering cupboards.
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5.
Father's Inspiration

Inspiration doesn't always come so easily.
I find it hard to create
when thoughts aren't always where they need to be.
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6.
Their Dreams

Their dreams landed just under the roof.
Ambitions last seen in lost fathers and soulless mothers.
Men illuminate the block with true inhibitions and become distant lovers.
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7.
Good People

Good people are like finding clean white socks
cotton,
and when the winter comes,
they protect any air
reaping through unknown seams on the bottoms of boots,
freshly cleaned from pure snow.
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8.
A Couple's Surprise

When you first meet,
it feels perhaps you know.
'I love you' let me just say,
because of course with time, we'll grow.
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9.
Ave Verum

I shivered as my body protected me from myself.
That cold feeling inside,
when you think of someone you love
is about to give you your heart back.
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10.
Lovers

We know they're fools.
Keeping their insanity clasped in their hands;
clenching their wisdom between their palms.
Down by the bay, they are stillborn
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