Vanessa Kingsley Poems

Smash! Crash! Screech!
I hear it in the street.
Bang! Boom! Clang!
There it is again!
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Waiting every night
For an ominous phone call
Resenting waking up alone in the night
Swollen with pride
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I’ll keep running.
No stopping.
No walking.
I’ll keep running.
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Resolve the lies and the truths that spin around the room like an electric currant causing problems and heartaches.
With an intimate look into the past, reach for all that was not obtainable and jump through the break.
With a scowl in your heart and a vivid reminder of why; the world crumbles around you.
I realize that forever is absurd and that love is persistently always in the back of my mind. Egging me on to take a shot.
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We are impulsive.
Quick to judge.
Quick to hate.
Quick to love.
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He loves me
He loves me not
I hope that isn't so.
He loved me
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Life is an allusion.
She’s a wicked witch. He’s a nasty Grinch.
We can’t be placed into a genre.
We’re as unchanging as the seasons.
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Yesterday was wonderful
The sky a perfect blue
Yesterday was wonderful
All because of you
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I sat for hours lookin’ at the street
He was still nowhere to be found
Never got a call
It never beeped
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Dark against the chandelier’s light
Alone in this big house
The truth is starting to seep through the walls
I forgot they had ears
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