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Unrequited Love

Unrequited love is the destruction of the heart

It is walking across an endless desert occupied with faded mirages that show you beauty like never before

Constantly consumed by its wonder, constantly consumed by the despair for your love for it

She is the mirage, you are the lonley aching fool in an endless desert

You are the one slowly suffocating by the boundless intesity of what you...

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anguish   beauty   despair   heartbreak   love   pain   reality   struggle   unrequited love

Higher love

As we get higher through the night 

The window to the bedroom lights the way

The sex gods and godesses apear 

They take ahold of us

As we rock back and fourth into the night

Stars shinning our way through 

Sexual fantasies end at a climax

Our body heat gradually gets cooler

Snores fill the air

Our bodies become a spoon

Our minds filled with love and happiness

So fa...

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Risking Fantasies

Every breathe is an orgasm

Risking our fantasies into reality 

Testing our limits 

Loving every second 

Concentrating on the tingle of every thrust

When I see you or look at you 

I feel trust and passion in every touch

Releasing of this tention is a mind and body sensation

The comfortable absence of talking 

The symphony of our moans 

Climaxing is too unbearable for u...

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Beauty   love   passion   Sex

Beauty's Bounty

Following July's discussion of beauty, here are a few of the advantages beautiful people enjoy:

http://www.businessinsider.com/studies-show-the-advantages-of-being-beautiful-2013-6?IR=T

 

 

 

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Beauty

Blame the trees...

Love brightens even more with the trees

My inner thoughts of you are translucent on my body

Every second with you feels like infinity 

Infinite beauty 

Infinite scares that you leave 

Anything is possible with you

When I get lost 

Your there to show me the way 

I hope this explains how much I love you

Sometimes your love puts me in a trance

Words are difficult 

Bod...

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love   Beauty   fantasy   mind   body soul

Notes From Underground

The whole of life cowers in a shadow
as I sprawl undone on the leather sofa
those lingering promises blown apart
their bloodstained shards 
decorate my mind

O beauty, beauty
you'll be the death of me
I say nothing when I hear you speak
I hear nothing but my voice saying
'give yourself to me'

And you can choose not to remember
you can opt not to partake in recollecting
but the guilt...

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self   lust   beauty

Old & New

Shuttles soar with seemingly unprecendented motion.
The children's eyes gaze to the floor.
The ground is green and brown and yellow.
The world below cannot bellow.

Bellow whole-heartedly,
Sing and hum its' tune.
A melody, sweet melody.
A rotation for all of you.

Its' sweet chillness pressed against the nostrils,
Its' gentle warmth against the skin.
Allow the gaze of the star above,
...

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life   change   progress   destruction   earth   space   children   thought   expression   poem   inside   remember   color   beauty   science   melody

Layers

I’m gonna be so pretty for you,

She says

As one layer falls off and tumbles to the ground -

Hugging your feet

Like a lash of waves.

I’m gonna be so pretty for you,

Let me be pretty for you,

I will be the prettiest I’ve ever been,

She says

As one layer of flesh peels off, along with her clothes.

One layer of soft lips melts from her features -

Layers and layers till...

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insecurity   gender   sex   beauty   unconscious   subconscious   human   layers   destruction   unravelling

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