Stevie Smith Poems

The faceless-ageless friends didn't find her hiding.
Instead there was a special gift,
the ability to hide in creases of time.
It hung there motionless on the wall as it had minutes ago.
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Sinking into you is something I find myself doing all too often.

If only you made this easier by being ignorant or oblivious.
Instead you wear the gentlmen well and I can never fault you for that.
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Waned and weary with only toil and trouble
my limbs could only travel this journey tired..

In my head to in my mind
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Looking back,
In your previous attractions the role playing usually involved more than a pretty target.
Although it was unknown to you at the time, with each new growing experience, your perception as well as reality began to find you less subtle while betraying your most important values.
Making you cloudy as you forget that you are the one who decides if you will continue, a most clever rouse.
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Curious Natures
In a more weak world the most aggressive advantages
don't always deal in what is referred to as 'fair consequence.'
Being an empire built of sharks, snakes, wolves, and rats-the most basic of beasts-
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For a moment,
Looking upward,
I suspected they had fallen from the sky.
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In the most unusual manic-panic creep,
Wildly lurking behind every corner,
The Shadow was about to recover some ungraspable but always constantly desired idea..
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His voice faltered at first then faded off..
He watched her slink closer,
carrying her flesh sensuously as some women can.
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Feathers torn from the gaping napes of wind began to dwindle and resist in spite of the gravity crushing tsunami.

Trapped in a facade of impersonating flowing rain every feather dived to their unplanned descent.
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