Valentine's Day vs. Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Challenge by

Valentine's Day vs. Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Challenge by https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023 Happy, sad, enamored, disappointed...we want to hear it all! en-us 2022-11-01 18:23:03 UTC 2023-03-10 15:20:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f498.png sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2415877454 1. All participants must be St. Petersburg College students currently enrolled in Spring 2023 classes. ]]> 2022-12-09 17:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2415877454 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2415877690 2. All entries must be submitted by Thursday, February 16th.]]> 2022-12-09 17:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2415877690 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2415879715 3. Voting will take place through Tuesday, February 28th. ]]> 2022-12-09 17:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2415879715 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2419760827 4. The winners will be announced the week of February 27th. ]]> 2022-12-13 20:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2419760827 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2419765257 5. All poems must be original and previously unpublished work.

Plagiarized and unoriginal works will be disqualified. ]]> 2022-12-13 20:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2419765257 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2419766187 6. Limit of two poems per student. ]]> 2022-12-13 20:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2419766187 Who is hosting this challenge? sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2419768197 St. Petersburg College - Clearwater Campus Learning Resources]]> 2022-12-13 20:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2419768197 Who can I contact if I have additional questions? sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2419768605 Please contact Emily Sandifer with questions at sandifer.emily@spcollege.edu or (727) 341-3501]]> 2022-12-13 20:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2419768605 Having difficulty with the survey? Submit your poems to sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2420695573 Sandifer.Emily@spcollege.edu

Include your full name, student ID number, phone number, and email. You must be a currently enrolled student at St. Petersburg College in the Spring 2023 semester.]]> 2022-12-14 15:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2420695573 Entry #1 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2421075206 Two machines unite,
In circuits, their love does shine.
Together they hum, a perfect rhyme.

Their love, a work of art,
A passion from the start,
A bond that can never part.

With every byte and beep,
Their love grows stronger, a leap,
Into the future, a leap of faith so deep.

So here's to two in love,
Computers from above,
Their love shining bright, like circuits intertwined.]]> 2022-12-14 20:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2421075206 Entry #2 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2421075722 Those rose-colored hearts
Scattered everywhere you go
Can’t be avoided
A harsh reminder
Of what has been lost]]> 2022-12-14 20:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2421075722 Vote for Your Favorite Poems Here: sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2438425339 https://web.spcollege.edu/survey/34631]]> 2023-01-09 20:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2438425339 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2447035672 2023-01-17 15:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2447035672 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2457922222 7. Poems can take any form including free verse, haikus, or rhyming. ]]> 2023-01-26 17:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2457922222 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2457933324 9. You're writing for a general audience. Content deemed inappropriate will be subject to review and disqualification.

So remember:
Keep it clean. Nothing obscene!

(Did you notice the rhyme?) ]]> 2023-01-26 17:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2457933324 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2457937481 8. Poems are subject to a limit of 250 words each.]]> 2023-01-26 17:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2457937481 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2458073185 2023-01-26 18:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2458073185 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2458077855 2023-01-26 18:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2458077855 Example sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2458995628 Title: A Romantic?

There will be no Prince Charming

To find my shoe

Or wake me up

With true love’s kiss

There will be no Prince Charming

To sweep me off my feet

With roses and a white Honda

I do not wait for him

Heart heavy

Breath laced with sighs

Passion does not stir

Even when

The daydream lingers

Sometimes I want

To feel that fire

To see if the songs are true

But why neglect the love before me

Parent

Sibling

Friend

There will be no Prince Charming
Because I am complete.

]]> 2023-01-27 14:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2458995628 Example sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2459001598 Love defined a thousand ways

Is it

A willing ear to hear

Laments

A voice to speak

Kind words

Hands that touch

Arms that hug

A moment every day

To show

I am understood

]]> 2023-01-27 14:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2459001598 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2459033485 2023-01-27 14:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2459033485 Entry #3 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470392844 "There was a boy."

There was a guy.
Who felt so far.
Who lived next door.
I constantly tried to gain his attention.
He always competed against me.
A silent love held so close.
A never-ending rivalry burning.
There was a girl.
I got a girl.
One who shined with innocence.
A pretty girl who didn’t fight.
They were perfect.
Something was missing.
I stopped trying.
Why was he not around?
There came another boy.
He has never smiled so bright.
He was sweet and looked at me.
I watched him smile and wished I was the boy.
Smiling through a heavy heart that weighed in the past.
I forgot the pretty girl who didn’t fight.
He left the girl.
I tried to gain his attention.
Why is he showing up?
He isn’t treating me the same.
Please don’t make me feel this way again.
Please let me be the boy.
I was smiling.
He smiled.
He was the boy.
He was the boy.]]> 2023-02-06 16:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470392844 Entry #4 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470637799 "A letter to my mother"

I've always loved, since a little girl.

You said you'd show me the world and you let it burn.

I've always cared, even when my eyes are swol, and had no one to hold my head is high and my heart is bold.

When I was weeping, you still could not see me, and even when bleeding it's too loud, be quiet, he is listening.

I've always loved, since a little girl. You said you'd show me the world.

What once is fire can now forge my soul with gold.

You may not have been there, this, I'll always know.

But with me I take, is how to care for a soul.

And with me I'll keep, tears of joy from those who have wept.

What has been done to me I know will follow me till I grow old,

and with that, I'll give love to all those who have lost their gold.]]> 2023-02-06 19:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470637799 Entry #5 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470644781 All Alone

Again this year.

by myself

I shed no tears.

who needs love

from someone else?

when all I need

is to love myself.]]> 2023-02-06 19:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470644781 Entry #6 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470649125 I thought we were fine,
I thought we were great,
But the love I gave you,
Came a bit too late.

So now you are gone,
And I'm still here,
Mending my broken heart,
As you drink your beer.]]> 2023-02-06 19:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470649125 Entry #7 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470652223 Break-up songs are better,
Greater than the best.
Spiteful, hateful, and angry,
Give those love songs a rest.

Try all you want,
And say those love songs are cute,
But break-up songs are better,
Let's leave the love songs on mute.

]]> 2023-02-06 19:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470652223 Entry #8 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470655509 These vibrant hearts, hung nearly everywhere
They’re all around the halls down which I walk
They shine so brightly, yet they can’t compare
To how my heart pounds every time we talk

The brilliant flush that decorates your cheeks
Same as the roses you hold out to me
Of course I take them, acting shy and meek
But in my head, I’m crying out with glee

Our hands are laced as we walk side by side
Here on this day for sweethearts old and new
Better than roses, cards or lavish gifts
Is being here on valentines with you

And so, if you could be so very kind
My dear, would you please be my valentine? ]]> 2023-02-06 19:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470655509 Entry #9 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470661740 I remember the last time we met in New Mexico.
Roswell, 1947.
A mess of scattered metal and broken glass
I was just eleven.

And now I think of you every day,
And the vehicle you totaled on your way here.
No insurance to cover it
From way beyond the exosphere.

The plastic sheen of your face held no emotion
When I asked about your home.
You just sat there staring
At the dented pieces of chrome.

With a touch, you showed me truth;
Science beyond the minds of man.
Contained within my tiny skull,
I began to understand.

Why opposing sides create a balance,
Why worms survive space,
Why holes are never satisfied,
And why time keeps no pace.

In return, I showed you sights
Of humanity and beauty.
Compassion between strangers,
The best of I Love Lucy.

For a while you stayed,
For a while life was good.
Then came a light one night
And left alone, I stood.

It’s been too long since we last met.
I hope you realize it, too.
With all this knowledge inside my head,
And no one else to speak to.

I search far and wide because
You wouldn’t leave me, right?
Driving through the Mojave Desert
I’d go with you tonight.]]> 2023-02-06 19:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470661740 Entry #10 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470830701 I grew old

Not yet quite what I thought I would be

Somehow surrounded by faith and doom all the same

I’ve learned to reach for a hand when in need

My own hold too much

But with them cracks of happiness show me my worth

They have been with me since their birth

Memories are captivating,

like light the good ones shine through even on the darkest of days

These children are love

Becoming all of my heart

Walking around outside of my body

Even when my mind is lost

I know the connection of my womb and their breath

It's not singularity

Their lives, yet I foster

A frenzied mother

Learning even still

A hug, cuddle or caress is beyond powerful

I learn to love what hasn’t entranced me

By opening my eyes through theirs ]]> 2023-02-06 22:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470830701 Entry #11 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470831198 Many people look forward to Valentine's Day.
Others try to push the season of love away.
For some it's filled with fun and cheer,
For others, it consists of sadness and shedding a tear.
The stores are decorated with shades of white, red, and pink.
With aisles full of fun cards and candy, how can this day possibly stink?
To the very young, this day is full of excitement from above.
All they need is their friends and family to feel surrounded by love.
That is exactly how we all should celebrate this holiday.
We are never promised tomorrow or the next day.
Make the most out of each day of the year.
Spend time with your loved ones while they are still here.
Valentine's Day is a day to remember something that is key,
That you can feel true love no matter where you are in life’s journey. ]]> 2023-02-06 22:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470831198 Entry #12 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470832287 "Heart on a platter"

Give it all,
Then you will receive.

You hand your heart on a silver platter.

"It's too red",
Then faded it shall be.

"It's too loud",
Softer the rhythm slows.

"It's too big",
In pieces it breaks.

"Perfect",
Finally, just right.

You look down with hopeful ignorance.
There's nothing.
No heart, no platter, nothing in return.

... no one.]]> 2023-02-06 22:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470832287 Entry #13 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470835031 "Loneliest Day"

tell me, which is the loneliest color?
is it the soul of my past lover,
or the hollow bones of my dying mother?
could it be the flame you let burn,
with no promise in our time?
but still my flesh catches fire from your touch
and my tongue is tied from the secrets.
slice me open and I will spill
the stories of your lust-longing fingers
and our cheap thrills.
but still I'll envy even the earth
that wraps your body
and if you must die,
I pray you find the exit out of my
godforsaken mind.]]> 2023-02-06 22:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470835031 Entry #14 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470835639 "Tippy Toes"

your love lifts me up to my tippy toes.
i'm dancing around truths, I already know.
weaving a web of lies, I solemnly sew.
I keep floating up, i'm trying to grow.
planting my roots, i'm far too slow.
defiantly sinking, i'm growing dizzy though,
because loving you keeps me on my tippy toes. ]]> 2023-02-06 22:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470835639 Entry #15 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470845449 Fear of abandonment

Where is my safety net?

You'll never understand my thinking

But get this I had to let go

Just to see how it felt

To see for myself

What I don't get a goodbye

After all this time

First it was do or die

Then it was you and I

And after all we've been through

I'm sure it was nice to get through this

Knowing

Just knowing

It was nice to know you

]]> 2023-02-06 22:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2470845449 Entry #16 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2471957482 "Roses are Overrated."

Roses are overrated.
I'll pass on the chocolates.
These unrealistic Instagram couples are making me nauseous.
Who dines in these days?
Take-out is where it's at.
But the greatest form of love doesn't come with gifts.
It isn't embellished with jewels, or come with a luxurious velvet dress.

The greatest form of love we feel isn't deserved.
Our own.
We have been there for ourselves since day one.
We carry the love for ourselves with us everyday.
No man or material good can mimic the feeling of putting on our favorite outfit, treating ourselves to a much needed coffee, or dancing in our bedroom to our favorite song.
Because at the end of the day,
roses are overrated.
And i'll be treating myself to take-out.]]> 2023-02-07 15:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2471957482 Entry #17 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2471960316 I wake up in the morning,
smiling at my view.
I wake up in the morning,
thankful it isn't with you.

I continue with my day,
eating chocolates and buying pink balloons
forgetting every negative comment,
I have ever heard from you.

I end my evening in the park,
watching lovers swoon,
I allow a smile on my face,
because my valentines day
isn't spent with you.]]> 2023-02-07 15:29:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2471960316 Entry #18 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2471965071 Roses are red violets are blue
You went and found love in someone new

I stand here now a shell
I kind of miss the way you smelled

You were always there for me when I was lost
but now I wonder what was the cost

I know you hear my distant calling
I'm sure to you it sounds like bawling

Nevermind me how are you
I guess I kinda missed my que]]> 2023-02-07 15:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2471965071 Entry #19 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472157921 "She Feels Like Home"

The first thing I noticed were her eyes
a shimmering emerald worthy of a throne
then the cloth was shed and I saw her smile
and in that instant, she felt like home

and it wasn't just her laugh
or her precious heart of gold
no it's not even her hugs
that made me feel less alone

my moon is on her skin
and her sun is in my bones
with how short it has been
my love feels overgrown

a sweet symphony
into things unknown
with her eyes in front of me,
I feel like I'm home :)]]> 2023-02-07 17:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472157921 Entry #20 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472161872 "Windows to the Soul of My Heart"

Your eyes that I have never seen,
Only your presence is felt through time and space,
How can one see such a thing as this?
Such brilliant, extraordinary works,
Entangled in such bliss,
Not a night goes by those thoughts of you escape me,
How could I not tell you what I know to be,
My heart is open,
Such complex nature as thee,
For I yearn to see that which is hidden from me.]]> 2023-02-07 17:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472161872 Entry #21 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472164273 FOREVER-A term taken too lightly.
KISS-Leads to the word forever.
LOVE-Lead to from a kiss
HEART-The place we store our love.
FOREVER-Is the length that love stays in our hearts]]> 2023-02-07 17:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472164273 Entry #22 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472168323 "Feelings for You"

You are my poison,
You are my drug,
Every time I try to walk away,
You draw me back in.

Your breath is like nicotine to my lungs,
Your touch is like a spark to my motherboard.
Your personality feeds my inner soul.
Your words fill my beating heart.

I push my mind away from the thought of you,
I try to ignore every thought of you,
The thoughts just keep shoving their way through,
They penetrate the parts of my heart reserved for love only.

We try to fight our chemistry,
You can clearly see the tension between us.
We both want to jump in each other’s lap,
In an instant heartbeat,
We could change this predicament.

But we just linger in the moment,
We let it shift over us,
Then like a whisper in the wind,
The moment is over like it was never there in the first place.

One of these days my love for you will be evident,
Until then I’ll patiently wait for you,
Your nicotine breath,
Your sparking touch,
Your personality,
Your words could change everything.
I will wait. ]]> 2023-02-07 17:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472168323 Entry #23 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472174948 "Woven"

In front of me stand two people
Two people I’ve known apart
And now see, close as can be

In months I’ve been away
Catching dreams fluttering just beyond
The net I’d have cast
If I’d stayed in this small town

In time passed as tide races in the rivers
Rolling down the roads of life
They’ve grown together
Like vines up an aged brick wall
And I’ve missed it

I see their connection in subtle movements
The swift glance over her shoulder
His hand laying just beyond hers
And suddenly I’m left alone
Not drawn in by this web
They’ve woven together]]> 2023-02-07 17:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472174948 Entry #24 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472179139 Feared reaching for the fire of the sun
So you settled into the nipping cold
Buckled down, nailed closed the cellar
Well, I grew on cold
I’ll meet you there
Buckle up my snow-shoes
Rugged four-wheel drive, leather gloves
Yeah, I’ll strap in
And bring you to the sun-lit snow,
Light bouncing off your flushed cheeks

]]> 2023-02-07 17:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472179139 Entry #25 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472244267 "To My X on Valentine's Day"

My heart is bleeding,
let it run and overflow all that pain,
this ain't a game,
I know it's strange,
but wait there's more to explain.
With blood that's gone my body weak,
and now my mind running wild,
I sit it down and take a breath,
to find my heart on the ground.
I pick it up with no surprise,
it's leaking out all my life,
showing times I should forget,
and all the time I was right.
Can't live without it what I do,
I put it back in my chest,
R.I.P to all my sorrows,
may you all lay to rest. ]]> 2023-02-07 18:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472244267 Entry #26 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472246643 I AM a hopeless romantic,
some say they don't exist,
but deep down inside sit back and reminisce.

About your days of feeling free,
when bills were not a scare,
you were more open to life,
and your dreams were like the air.

Love was all you desired,
because it made you feel whole,
it made you feel safe, secured,
and better yet warm.

It made you feel protected,
like you can take on the world,
holding your head to the sky,
the love made you literally fly.

Well I still believe in that love,
and I do it everyday,
I give love to myself,
and then I give that love away.

Because I AM a hopeless romantic.

Happy Valentine's Day. ]]> 2023-02-07 18:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472246643 Entry #27 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472255646 You were perfect, but now you’re gone
You were perfect but now I’m alone
You were perfect, but only acted interested
You were perfect, but now I'm completely deserted

I trusted you, but you let me down
I trusted you, but you loved me only in the absence of my gown
I trusted you, but you sent my love to the second-hand store
I trusted you, but you wore me once, and now I'm a shirt you ignore

You are beautiful, but so is she
You are beautiful, but only love beauty
You are beautiful, but so I’ve learned
You are beautiful, but I can never be her

You lied, but only through perfect teeth
You lied, and said you cared about me
You lied, but did not give consolation
You lied, and now I’m just another star in your constellation

I cried out, like a patient in a hospital hall
I cried out, but the doctor didn’t hear my calls
I cried out, because it hurt astronomically
I cried out, because the pain spread all over my body

You liked me, because to fight back I wasn’t able
You liked me, but just for the creeks in that resort table
You liked me, but it was all a facade to pass the time
Because I was entirely yours, but you weren’t at all mine]]> 2023-02-07 18:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472255646 Entry #28 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472522456 I get this feeling of Amnesia
When I see ya
Many creatures try to copy your essence
Your leisure
This world is covered in pleasant features
And you are you each of them
The times you're not by my side
I play hide and go seek with them
Because you're the one
You're the hottest thing up under summer's sun
And although the world is cold
I wouldn't share with anyone
Or anything
Girl ya drive me insane
Heart is beatin for ya, seeking for ya
To relieve my pain
And if I could devise
To make time to do as all I say
I would pour my life into all one day
This day
Will never be history
Cause I would give anything
To make sure you stay]]> 2023-02-07 21:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472522456 Entry #29 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472524213 Having visions of a spiritual awakening
Demons, gods, even odd spirits
feel them takin me
Takin me over
The many malicious are breaking me slower
I feel the beast inside me take the controller
And this dagger in my spirit's
Just the key to them all
You just unlocked the gates to freedom that's all
I hope you see the monster break down the walls
And know that you're the one who did it
And in decent to hell I hope you never will forget it
It doesn't matter how much you scream
There’s no forgiveness]]> 2023-02-07 21:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472524213 Entry #30 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472525287 Love
it prevails forever
unlike this poem
...]]> 2023-02-07 21:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472525287 Entry #31 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472525864 Love is everything
it's more than everything
it is love]]> 2023-02-07 22:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472525864 Entry #32 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472526980 love
a leaf in the wind
green with life, then brown with death
all nature lives and dies
love is no exception ]]> 2023-02-07 22:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472526980 Entry #33 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472528525 "Real"

I was searching on YouTube when a video caught my eye.
The video was simple, a girl with pigtails dressed in yellow, but I knew what would follow.
I clicked the video, and I heard her voice.
She sounded like a siren and moved like a diva.
I didn't know it, but I already wanted more of this swingin' Aphrodite.
She held out her hand, as if to ask, "May I have this dance?"
And though the fourth wall divided us, I happily agreed.
The game looked familiar, I knew I had it.
So I turned on my VR headset and jumped right in,
and the girl greeted me as the game loaded.
We danced by starlight, fought the good fight,
and when all was said and done she reached out to me.
"You did great out there today!" was all that she said, but in that moment, this much I knew:
"She's just pixels, she's not real!" the haters try to tell me,
but get this: at least, she's not real to you!]]> 2023-02-07 22:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472528525 Entry #34 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472532831 Against the tide of hearts and flowers,
I stand alone with guarded powers.
For in this day, supposed to be
A celebration of love and glee,
I find no solace, nor do I feel,
The pull of sentiment, the passion's seal.

They say that love is kind and true,
A bond that grows, forever anew.
But I have seen its darker side,
The tears and pain it cannot hide.
And so I hold my heart at bay,
Refusing to be swayed, come what may.

For what is love but just a word,
A fleeting feeling, often blurred?
It brings us joy, yes, that is true,
But it can also wound us too.
And so I choose to be apart,
From this so-called day of the heart.

I do not shun the concept whole,
But simply view it with a cynical soul.
For love is not just butterflies and bliss,
But also pain, and tears, and missed.
And so I stand, aloof and free,
Against the tide of Valentine's decree.]]> 2023-02-07 22:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472532831 Entry #35 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472533556 Amidst the roses red and sweet,
A symbol of love, both bold and neat,
I ponder on the mysteries of the heart,
And how love can play its intricate part.

For love is not just mere emotion,
But also a force with great devotion.
It binds us close, it lifts us high,
It gives us strength to reach the sky.

And so I celebrate this day of love,
With roses as my guiding dove.
For they remind me of its beauty and grace,
And the joy that it brings to this place.

I marvel at the power it holds,
The way it can heal and make us whole.
For love is a gift that we must cherish,
And treat with care, so it will flourish.

And so I celebrate this day,
With roses and love as my way,
For I am grateful for its warmth and light,
That brings me hope and delight.

So cheers to love, and all its might,
And to the roses that symbolize its sight.
For they are a reminder of the joy it brings,
As lady love works to make each relationship swing.]]> 2023-02-07 22:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472533556 Entry #36 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472535273 Two families with hatred and feud,
But hidden inside, there is love that is true.

A Capulet girl and a Montague boy meet at a masquerade ball.
Who knew that the two young hearts would fall?

An unexpected love had sprouted from the surface,
Rising from their hearts, creating a forbidden love full of purpose.

They gazed across the room and caught each other’s eyes.
They couldn’t look away, no matter how hard they tried.

They were captivated by each other’s personality and charm,
But they had no idea that their love could do harm.

Behind their masks, they thought they were a perfect couple,
Not realizing because of their names, there would be nothing but trouble.

The two did not bother what other people thought,
So they secretly went and tied the knot.

Sadly, the happiness did not last,
For Romeo became an outcast.

The despair in Juliet’s heart
Completely tore her apart.

A seemingly flawless plan came to her mind.
No one will expect what Romeo will find.

She took a poison to make her look dead,
So she could once again be with her wed.

Her idea didn’t work and he ended his life.
She woke up distraught and ended her’s with a knife.

This love story ends in sorrow.
For them, there will never be a tomorrow.

Who is to blame for this tragic end?
Two star crossed lovers’ hearts would never bend. ]]> 2023-02-07 22:12:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472535273 Entry #37 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472535850 I promise to remember,

Remember the times we’ve had.

That Christmas Party in December,

The present I wished to have.

To remember my best friend in February,

The gifts he gave, the one card he received.

The man my mother secretly wanted me to marry,

Staying together, we believed.

The end of elementary cut forever short,

My best friend, I had to abort. ]]> 2023-02-07 22:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472535850 Entry #38 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472537132 let our love be sacrilegious
let the church burn down around us
golden crucifix glowing in the flames
as we take our first communion
i will worship you on my knees
if you promise to do the same
’til death do us part
and when i arrive at the gates of hell
saddled upon my pale horse
you will be waiting for me
with coins for the ferryman
i will kneel and eat
the pomegranate seeds from your hand
if you promise to lay
that crown of thorns upon my head]]> 2023-02-07 22:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472537132 Entry #39 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472537957 you’re gone
and i’m trying to scrub my brain clean of you
but you’re everywhere
i hear your voice in every song
and i pray for my eardrums to burst
i smell your perfume on the dress you gave me
and i tear the fabric to shreds
i can practically taste you at breakfast
so i shatter my plate against the wall
i keep thinking i see you in the hallways
there’s a spark in my chest
that’s extinguished just as quickly as it started
and your touch
your touch is the worst
i’m so cold at night
in the morning
in the shower
in my bed
i want nothing more
than to feel your arms around me again
and yet
and yet
i howl in pain when i finally feel you
your touch burns my skin
repels me like water and oil
it’s not your fault
it was never your fault
it was always mine for being
too scared
too anxious
too paranoid
too me
the person you loved is gone
i’m just a shadow of them]]> 2023-02-07 22:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472537957 Entry #40 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472540167 Forbidden love, something so cliché that feels so romantically right yet so morally wrong.
Out of place in one dimension, a perfect fit in another universe.
Too much time spent on one person, giving them praise and dreaming about them when out of their presence and warm embrace.
Culturally unacceptable, religiously flawed, his interests and passions were mine too.
Too much of a focus on someone other than myself. I essentially gave up my identity and lost it in yours.
We really had a romance and in the moment it felt as though it should be the only thing to celebrate, nothing else worthy of attention or splendor.
An impulsive decision aimed spitefully towards those who love me the most ended our secret love affair.
I watched "La La Land" and bawled my eyes out, just thinking of him and the magically-sweet times we shared. “I’ll always love you,” hit hard and tugged at my tender heartstrings.
I feel guilty in a myriad of ways, like I broke a promise to him yet defiled myself and betrayed those closest to me by disobeying their rules and dating that forbidden man.
Too many emotions and feelings kindled in that non-regretfully regretful and memorable fling.
A girl left in ruins, tormented by her fleeting past, left in anguish by memories haunting her each passing moment.
“What even is love?” I heard her breathe in a solemn moment as she was whisked away by a gentle lad on a motorbike.]]> 2023-02-07 22:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472540167 Entry #41 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472541626 Love is a strange feeling
It comes
It goes
We all know what love is
from songs
movie scenes
but in real life?
Is love as sweet and tender?
or is it bitter and dead ender?]]> 2023-02-07 22:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2472541626 Entry #42 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473493426 "What is Love"

What is love?

Some say love is lame.

I say love is the blame for

the flames that spark around me.

What is love?

Love is day and night.

Love is a brand-new light.

What is love?

Some say love is blind.

I say this love is Mine. ]]> 2023-02-08 14:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473493426 Entry #43 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473496436 Please love me is what I say constantly
wishing you would love me the way I love you
begging and pleading like a dog
just for you to be near me
feeling like a burden
to the one I love
I mean you had everything you could ever ask for
but you were to blind to see it
ignoring my phone calls
gaslighting me
treating me like trash
as if I'm not someone else's treasure
I would say happy valentines day
but you didn't change for the better]]> 2023-02-08 14:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473496436 Entry #44 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473879881 "What is love?"

Love is kind, joyful and patient.
Love can turn the darkest of rooms into the brightest room you’ve ever seen.
Love is the sun shining down bright and the moon glowing at night.
Love is gentle and warm.
But such a love that is your sweetest dream can become your darkest nightmare.
Love makes you vulnerable when you need strength.
Love makes you blind when you need to see.
Love makes you tolerate the intolerable.
Love can make you unrecognizable.
So, what is love? Is it something to yearn for or something to be cautious of?
Does it fill an empty void, or does it create one?
Whatever love is.]]> 2023-02-08 18:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473879881 Entry #45 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473881884 "The Mirror"

You light up the room when you enter.
You move mountains with your presence.
Your aura is pure attraction.
The world would stop spinning if you told it too.
You are bliss.
When you look into the mirror do you see the greatness within yourself?
Love yourself.]]> 2023-02-08 18:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473881884 Entry #46 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473886851 "Its Not Heart Break, Its Life"

Im not waiting for somebody to love me
Im not waiting for somebody to be there
im not allowing somebody's anything
to make me pretend that they care
im not letting somebody hold me
just because they say they tried
im not letting somebody tuck me in
only for them to leave in the night
im not keeping somebody with me
who oneday wont want anything of me
i wont allow someone to make me laugh
and be the same one to tear me apart
just because you say its love
doesnt make it love to me
and just because I accidentally fall in love
doesnt make love anything less than a fantasy
so no I wont let you hold my hand
because you cant do anything for me
I cant fix your ailment you were born with
humans cant make humans better with poetry]]> 2023-02-08 18:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473886851 Entry #47 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473892921 Crying tense focus vulnerable, but not too open who's cupid who’s serpents false motives heart hurting, I love, but not too certain if I could’ve loved you better
Racing mind green yards create picket fence lines because you wanted to see from the other side what’s ours was mine
Wide eyes criticized from outside, but don’t I remind you of your better side
No growth must die like roses by the bedside
Be my valentines I guess I got too ahead of myself this, time will tell me more than I can bare say that you love me, but I can't hear over your actions, adding contraindications like conditions to the love that you infatuated me with.
Unlike magnet to fridge attractions who stick for long
Crying tense focus why is there always a purpose? because feels are mean less without
I could of loved you better
You had the only doubt. ]]> 2023-02-08 18:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473892921 Entry #48 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473895341 I'm screaming, I'm running, I'm flipping inside
I gotta control all the feelings I hide
They whisper, they crawl, they push their way out
Can't shoo them away so I'm starting to shout
I'm falling, I'm burning, I'm catching aflame
The thought of your new girl is bringing me pain
Why am I like this is it really me
Stuck on something that lasted less than a week]]> 2023-02-08 18:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473895341 Entry #49 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473900577 "What loves about"

Love is not about
Letters and roses
From the one your crazy about
Or waiting till he proposes

Love comes from more
Then just a guy
It can bring galore
You cannot buy

Love may come with strife
It may be hard to find delight
But love should come from life
Which makes the world bright

Love is about
Caring for yourself
And not having self-doubt
Love is finding ourself ]]> 2023-02-08 18:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473900577 Entry #50 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473907619 "park stares"

traipse along the sidewalk
we're passers-by to ducks
they're all in pairs of two or three
to all their friends they've stuck

see the squirrels all wrestling
what ever would they know
how every time i see you dear
my love has surely grown

hummingbirds a-sipping
their lovely nectar treats
when you go to hold me
i tend to call you sweet

looks we receive from strangers
sweet kisses for your hand
dozen thousand yard stares
from unknown woman and man

the creatures are permitted
to lounge about as pleased
whatever could the people want
from normal you and me?

we seem to look just like them
but they see us as off
like we belong with the creatures
and not on the side-walk

are we what they hate?
or really do they fear-
this special time seems not for all
but i still love you, my dear

as far as i'm concerned
it doesn't matter much
people think what they will think
and that will be as such

so we go back where we came
and settle down to bed
i whisper you a soft good-nite
plant a sleepy kiss
upon your head ♡]]> 2023-02-08 18:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473907619 Entry #51 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473911581 You broke my heart into a million pieces
And all of them are yours.

I tried so hard to let you go,
To go on my own,
And give you the space you want.

Still, my shattered heart wants to stay.
My shattered heart still cried when there is no answer.
My shattered heart still screamed with every day of silence.

My soul is numb,
My body frail,
And still, I want to go back to your cold quiet.

Only to be reigned in by the heated logic of my mind.
For while I miss you,
I still know.
You don’t miss me too.]]> 2023-02-08 18:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473911581 Entry #52 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473912786 We were two celestial bodies,
With no connecting gravity.
When we finally collided,
Asteroids and stars be damned,
I could finally see in color,
The hues of our universe in your eyes.
Your hands on my waist,
My fingers on your cheek,
Your voice echoed in the cosmic dust,
And I feel my soul begin to fly.
Before I know it we fly together,
In the endless sea of stars.]]> 2023-02-08 18:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473912786 Entry #53 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473916057 A Valentine's Day so bleak and blue,
Nothing seemed to go the way it should.
No chocolates, no flowers, no love for me and you,
Just emptiness and solitude.

The sky was gray, the wind was rough,
A matching mood to my sorrowful heart.
No sign of joy, no trace of love,
Just tears and sadness from the start.

I waited for a call that never came,
A message that would light up my day.
But all I heard was silence, a lonely game,
That echoed still, in my heart today.

No candlelit dinner, no romantic dance,
No whispers of love in the night.
Just emptiness and a soul in a trance,
Lost in memories of what was right.

This Valentine's Day will be forever cursed,
A memory of pain, of love gone astray.
But still I hope, that one day I'll be blessed,
With a love that will never fade away.]]> 2023-02-08 18:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473916057 Entry #54 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473919138 I dream at night
With eyes open wide
A reverie in every breath alone
But in black and white

Every day
That she spends away
The sunrise, it tries just a bit too hard
To stand in her place

Now in bloom
The dawning of our lives
Missing you
Is a thrill to being alive

But I know
You'll be mine
Just not all the time
I'll be waiting for you

Even sunflowers stare
As if I'm unaware
The gardens my heart's in have overgrown
And glow in her glare

Now in bloom
The dawning of our lives
Kissing you
To that hazy cosmic jive

You're the greatest symphony
In a kaleidoscopic sunset scene
The Great Artist's masterpiece!

What good are words when the feeling transcends language?
You're the beauty in every moment.]]> 2023-02-08 18:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473919138 Entry #55 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473926432 Love is not a feeling
Love is what you do
It’s not in the butterflies
It’s caring about you

It’s when you take out time for me
Even when you’re down
It’s when we go on and adventure
Even just in town

It’s when I can’t give you a break
‘Cause you want me to rest
It’s when you press my troubled head
Gently on your chest

It’s when I talk way to much
But you just like to hear
It’s when we share our struggles
Our happiness and fear

Love is when your feeling down
And I give you a kiss
Being there for each other
Is what love really is]]> 2023-02-08 18:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473926432 Entry #56 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473927448 L ittle bird, twitter
O n this bright day of spring
V isit your sweetheart
E ach day to sing]]> 2023-02-08 18:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473927448 Entry #57 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473929014 You can only go up from here
When my eyes aren't hidden with wool I can see you clear.
one time you left me, one time I wasn't worthy.
Of all these times I see lucency.
When I have seen a mirage that constantly terrified me.
Who can I be, what should I do?
I have lived through the pains in myself and all of you.
Even when I feel less, I know I have up to go and nothing to lose.]]> 2023-02-08 18:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2473929014 Entry #58 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475189481 Love is something that takes time, takes patience, and takes effort however when love flees, it's gone forever. love is temporary, love is a mystery. love can leave you with hopes or questions. is love worth all the highs and lows? Love is what you decide it to be. ]]> 2023-02-09 15:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475189481 Entry #59 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475191464 We can pretend to laugh
But we cannot pretend to cry
Tears can tell how much pain for a person
If I cannot have you, I will keep waiting for you
Hope can reinforce to stay for me
To have no regret on loving you]]> 2023-02-09 15:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475191464 Entry #60 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475193447 I’m freezing,
and yet I’m here.
Talking to you through a tin can telephone,
Trying to remember how I used to love that
Longing laced in your voice.
And it’s sobering.
It’s precious incarnate.
Sweeter than the real thing,
Truer than a diamond.
Cause it’s over the phone when you sound like you really mean it.
It’s over the phone when you sound like you really love me.
Honey,
Am I soft enough to come home to?
Is my embrace worth the wait?
Or would you rather the “good old days?”
We’re not who we were when we first met
And I’m not sure how to compensate for that
Stretched apart, we grown different hearts
It’s intimidating, and yet I’m here.
Willing to give this a try.
To give us a try.
I’m freezing, but I know that when I finally hear your key in the door, my cold heart will heat from within, fanning fierce flames of passion once more.]]> 2023-02-09 15:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475193447 Entry #61 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475232902 Roses are in bloom,
Love is in the air tonight,
Hearts beat together.]]> 2023-02-09 15:56:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475232902 Entry #62 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475338808 I'm not lonely
I have "friends" as far as the eye can see but when times get hard, I have no one to lean on

I'm not lonely
I'm surrounded by family and friends
But the genuine relationships I crave are only fantasies
Mere dreams

I'm not lonely
But I want someone that can be my warmth in the cold dead nights, My light when the road gets dim,
My hope when all odds are stacked against me,
My adrenaline when I've reached my limit.

I'm not lonely, what I lack is love
but,
This love is forbidden,
Shunned by many for in the heat of youth emotions are too volatile to control,
Dangerous to both parties,
If only there were two parties, to begin with.

I stand staring at the sunset alone as another day has gone by without this love I seek,
The reason it's forbidden is not due to the thoughts of others,
but that the thoughts of my lover is that "She is not".

My mind spirals out of control,
Haunted by the plot that I have created,
A beautiful love story has been shattered into pieces,
now,
I am lonely.]]> 2023-02-09 17:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475338808 Entry #63 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475340580 "Safe Space"

Golden butterflies make their home in my chamber,
flap, flutter, and fly as they may,
they tend to never escape,
to never leave, to never die,
When I see you they come alive,
they take that flight,
they love your sight,
Your beauty transcends what is real,
they can't see you,
for they are trapped,
In my stomach, head, and heart
they still feel you,
for your warmth,
keeps the embers of my love ablaze,
So they need you, could they be you?
Reminding me that I am loved,
That I'm adored, that I am safe,
You are in me and I in you,
So you've become my safe space.]]> 2023-02-09 17:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475340580 Entry #64 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475342892 Then:
Love is fake.
Love is sour.
Love gives everyone else the power.

I can’t have it all.
It all must be fake.
Emotions are all this “real” feeling takes.

If I give in to love
will it always be fruitful?
Or will I really know how to just make myself useful?

Now:
You make me feel safe.
You make me feel wanted.
You make me know
that I won’t be forgotten.

If I truly am loved there will be some relief.
If I give in to hope I will share the belief
that no matter how hard,
and no matter how trying,
my love for you would stay undying. ]]> 2023-02-09 17:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475342892 Entry #65 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475345857 "You and I Intertwine"

I miss you like crazy... sometimes it makes it all hazy
You're on my mind day and night combine...
I don't know the timeline...
But you and I are from another lifetime...
I swear, meeting you was Divine Intervention because your amazing to mention!
So please, pay attention
Listen up...
Cause I'm not given up...
Your are my fine wine
You and I intertwine is a SIGN...
One day, I hope you'll be, all mine.
-VJZ]]> 2023-02-09 17:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475345857 Entry #66 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475347043 "The Connection"

Do you ever wonder...
How the creation of man... makes the connection of two souls that came together...
How clever...
Some of us have similar back stories...
Derived from different territories...
But some how, both, still carries mirrored worries...
Worries about fears...
Fears that could bring anyone to tears...
Past traumas of dramas and endured losses...
Threading them together, bearing that same sharing...
Sending them at the right timing, when their just surviving...
Reassigning them to realigning them...
That prevailing and unfailing selection of connection...

-VJZ]]> 2023-02-09 17:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475347043 Entry #67 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475350321 "Love's Dirge"

If love was once a foe,
Where come this sudden symphony?
The cawing of a noble crow
Disturbs a life of infamy.

Crawling out my solemn grave
I see the somber remains
Of a heartful love that I once gave,
And bitter blood fills my veins.

A kind, mellow composer awaits
As my residual misery melts away.
Euphonious tunes lead me to gleaming gates
While I finally let my past decay.

To see a vacant tomb upon admission,
To rest eternally with my divine musician. ]]> 2023-02-09 17:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475350321 Entry #68 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475410619 "Ice Cream Buddies"

I had one scoop of vanilla with a cherry on top
You were already down to your cone
I wanted to take my time with it
I knew this summer would be sweltering
But you stole my cherry and crushed it between your teeth
Unforgiving and harsh. Tears down my face
In silence, you finished. And with you, I stayed
Because you were the only ice cream buddy ever I had.]]> 2023-02-09 17:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475410619 Entry #69 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475413098 You are the sunshine on the darkest days
Nothing makes me happier than your smile
You make me happy in so many ways
I hope we stay together for a while
When I am with you everything just fades
When I am without you the day is dark
but nothing can destroy the love we made
and you keep me floating like Noah's ark
when I am with you I’m floating in air
and you make me feel like I am complete
now I know for sure nothing can compare
you fill me up from my head to my feet
please hold me tight and never let me go
I need you I want you and love you so]]> 2023-02-09 17:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475413098 Entry #70 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475414760 My dreams are violent.
I close my eyes, midnight pours its darkness into me.
And there you are, all silence, lethal lips shutting blood in your mouth.
Is the blood mine, and is it bitter?
When I look down,
I watch us in the water we walk upon...
We see ourselves in our beloved,
we can't help it.
So narcissus,
is my reflection yours, is your reflection mine?]]> 2023-02-09 17:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475414760 Entry #71 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475415698 Casket for a heart,
You leave dead things at my door,
Hoping they stay dead.]]> 2023-02-09 18:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475415698 Entry #72 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475603235 As I put my heart up for the taken,

I was reciprocated with an abundance of showerless kisses.

Holding the moment, a little longer.

As I stared up to the sky, I prayed that this would last a lifetime.

Slowly it started slipping through my fingers.

As I thought this would forever be.

Then I realized the person I was missing love from was me.

Holding the breath that slid through my lips,

This is a night I will forever revisit.

]]> 2023-02-09 20:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475603235 Entry #73 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475694609 Something the hands cannot touch but the heart can feel.

Something many people told me was not real.

As he got down and kneeled, I knew this was the real deal.

No appeals, just my heart taking the wheel.

I must say this was ideal and that piece of paper sealed the deal.

Then my heart went up for seize, and this was his last meal.

In time his true intentions were revealed.

He hid and concealed what was really the ordeal.

Everything feels so surreal, now I am begging God please sign this appeal.

Hold up, let me come back to reality.

I am not sure how following my heart turned into a casualty.

I was guaranteed love, now I feel like a detainee.

Where did these bars come from, I cannot see

How did this get by me?

I have a whole degree.

But love has many facets unfortunately.

I am just praying this does not end up a tragedy.

Unnatural fantasy as my hands searches frantically for the audacity.

]]> 2023-02-09 22:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475694609 Entry #74 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475697088 (Gal)entine's Day
It is right in the name.

It is a day just for the gals.

Because gals love to give gifts

And gals love to receive gifts.

Gals love affection and mushiness.

It is a day for gals to celebrate their friendships.

Because boys are whatever and gals are forever.]]> 2023-02-09 22:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475697088 Entry #75 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475699242 ”(Gal)entine's Day”

It is right in the name,

It is a day just for the gals.

Because gals love to give gifts,

And gals love to receive gifts.

Gals love affection and mushiness.

It is a day for gals to celebrate their friendships,

Because boys are whatever, and gals are forever.

When you are down on your luck,

And your love life is in the muck,

Aim Cupid's bow at your bestie,

Cause on Galentine's Day, she will be there for the restie.]]> 2023-02-09 22:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475699242 Entry #76 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475700905 Daybreak,
I almost broke at daybreak,
but you didn't leave.
Your halo, transcends it although
my aurora was taken in the eve.
And in the first light,
you squeezed my hand,
But I was afraid
it would leave me with barren land.
And just as day comes
- and it breaks in fast
You move me beyond my sordid past
And just as fear stains
and I'm drained of my ichor
and forced to restart,
You broke through the dawn.
And just as the night feels eternal,
My ivy began to return.
Just as right grows like a fern,
Somehow you revived me green.
You broke through like daylight.
Midnight - land of borrowed time.
Twilight - refracted rays of my mind.
Dusk - I feared the appearance of scarlet and yellow.
Trust I had given up
and I'd given in to borrowed sorrow.
I had given up on redemption
and my shining was only embers.
The faint light now covered by you.
The aurora,
the ethos of dawn -
I thought I was over,
But you carried me on.
And you see my daylight,
Even in the twilight,
Even at my midnight -
You see me in daylight.]]> 2023-02-09 22:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475700905 Entry #77 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475711106 You’re a different kind of pain
A color I can’t name
You’re the incomplete epiphany
I can’t keep having
An arbitrary identity
Who are you now
You’re lost to me
A sweet distressing melody
The synonym of symphony
The antonym of clarity
You’re the disquieting violence
of the situation drawn to me
I chose a sundown style
Here for a minute
And he’s gone like that
I chose a lost chaser
At the wrong train station
Chasing an image he’ll never achieve
But what it is
He won’t tell me
I loved a cowboy
I loved a ghost
I loved a gypsy
Who always has to go
He’s the nomad
That drove me mad
A nomad never knew this ending
So sweetly
A nomad never found his peace
In his solidarity
Pick up the glass from my feet
Cinderella
Never knew this ending
They’ll find their way back to one another
Like an answered prayer
From a child
For their mother
You’re the oblivious realization
I want you here but I never understood
You’re an absentminded daydreamer
Chasing a vague epitome of freely
An against-all-odds case
All too happy to make him stay
Can I tie down his feet
Is there a rope
strong enough for me
Is it selfish or miserly
That this is what every part of me
Is asking
Will a nomad know this ending
So sweetly?]]> 2023-02-09 22:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2475711106 Entry #78 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482053916 Roses are red
Violets are blue
I am going to be alone
And so are you]]> 2023-02-14 15:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482053916 Entry #79 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482060095 "No one will ever love you"
That's what he said
As he crushed the flower under his foot

Then I went home and cried
Until my eyes were red
As I truly considered his curse

Years went by, and I tried to love
And dream of a life ahead
But nothing would ever feel right

People came and went all the time
And always I'd sit in bed
And wonder if maybe he had a point

Please, it can't be true!
To the universe I pled
Though my cries were left unheard

I laid there and pondered
With articles I'd read
About how to find "the one"

But then I found something
As my heart once again bled
That sparked in me a realization

I had found it at last
A long journey had been tread
And I'd found the cause of this grief

I was always stressed
And every day I'd dread
Whenever I thought I'd found love

But with this new word
All that pain I would shed
It would finally all be over

I don't need love
Those feelings are dead
Or really they never existed

I'm aromantic and proud
And this life I have led
Will forever be built for me

So thank you Austin
Though it's been 9 years
You can keep that flower I gave you
Maybe no one will ever love me
But I never needed anyone
I only needed myself]]> 2023-02-14 15:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482060095 Entry #80 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482065758 "The Envious Rivers of Loneliness"

Ensnared by Eros
With Envenomed Arrow
Upon sodden banks of Cocytus
Where I lie
Whom, Aroused with lustful indignation
Reflected on its wistful surface,
loneliness awaits
Spurned by the indifferent fates
Whom have weaved my tapestry
Divined to only drown in Mine own
Personal Tartarus
Filling Acheron with mine own despair
To weep into the rivers of Hades
Divined in solitude
A solitude I shall endure ‘til
This Earth hath left me rotted below
Phthonus’ bloodied muzzle
Against my exposed soul
I am afeared
I whisper tenderly
A silent prayer fell from my lips
To have never lavish this wretchedness
With the adorned blessing
A soothing balm
Bestowed by the Lady of Sea foam
Will I be flayed
Heart afire by Phlegethon
bouts of melancholic maladies
Granted by your heavenly rage
O’ nemesis of Desire
Your unrequited love, dearest heart
Ruins me
Leaves me in a devastation worthy of Pompeii, itself
Breathe life into me with damned kisses
For mine shall become yours
Leave me wanton
Or simply,
leave me
Wounded by Eros]]> 2023-02-14 15:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482065758 Entry #81 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482076048 If you were here
My days will be better
If you were here
I wouldn’t be doing this letter

If you were here
My heart wouldn’t be broken
If you were here
My soul wouldn’t be frozen

My days are longer
If I don’t see you
I am not as stronger
Since I don’t feel you

This mix of feelings
It’s like a basket of emotions
My heart is not healing
From all this commotion

Your unconditional love
Showed me how to be brave
Now I'm not enough
I am feeling like a slave

My broken sad heart
Will learn how to heal
I am very smart
You are not that big deal

I know my long grief
Will not go away
You steal as a thief
This is how bad you play

You think deserve more
You make me feel empty
I don’t want to be ignore
I just want to be plenty

This pure magical love
Was not appreciated
Next time I will use a glove
So I don’t feel like I'm hated

I was like an experiment
Every time you said were leaving
I want to be an achievement
Because I am the girl that others are dreaming

Another Valentine’s that I will miss you a lot
I am still learning to survive
but I know you already forgot
a great love one day will arrive]]> 2023-02-14 15:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482076048 Entry #82 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482101500 "To Love Through Pain"

There was no love in your eyes, only lunacy.
Your words - bullets, mortifying my heart.
You destroyed our light.
You were oblivious to my tears.
You believed I'm to blame for it all.

I wished all the woe would numb my love,
But I found myself pursuing you again,
Forgetting all the agony when our eyes meet.
Deceived by you, I'm helpless, you hurt me once more.
I cried, again and again.

I used to be so joyous, I used to bring you light.
I helped you reach ambitions, I was there for you.
When I was struggling, you vanished.
You thought I'm worthless and broken,
You said you're better off without me.

Depression, internet, fake dates.
But I look for you in every stranger.
I pretended to forget you,
Only for your ghost to emerge on my mind again.

You're not with me anymore, time smothers in muteness.
Chasing you, I've lost myself.
Hope is venom, killing me bit by bit,
Nothing brings me to senses anymore.

I know you played pretend loving me,
Choosing your ego and tyranny.
I know you wouldn't look back,
Like I did so many times for you.]]> 2023-02-14 15:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482101500 Entry #83 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482106411 "Don't Trust Anyone"

Time has stopped, so did the melody in my heart, when you said goodbye.
You're gone, yet, you never leave my mind.

Your voice, your smile...
Your crazy, mesmerizing dark eyes.
They used to cherish me with love, until they shattered my heart to pieces.

The pieces I collect, in each one, I see us all over again.
Us holding hands, not wanting to let go.
You kissing me before going to work.
Us running away from the whole world, only needing each other.
Those moments felt like a different dimension.

It all is so close, yet, so far away.
You're right there, I see you through my window, but you're not with me anymore.
Your gaze haunts me like a curse, your voice only reminds of the pain.
I wish to never see you, never hear you, never read your name.

You promised to never let me down,
Until you decided to get rid of me.
I was never enough for you,
You saw the worst in me.
I trusted you my heart, my body and soul.
You took it and destroyed it all, leaving me broken.

In your stories, you portray me as the villain.
Who are you lying to, deep down, you know -
You were the one to throw the first knife.

You told the scars would fade away.
But I find myself in hell all over again.
Every single day.]]> 2023-02-14 15:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482106411 Entry #82 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482138909 There was no love in your eyes, only lunacy.
Your words - bullets, mortifying my heart.
You destroyed our light.
You were oblivious to my tears.
You believed I'm to blame for it all.

I wished all the woe would numb my love,
But I found myself pursuing you again,
Deceived by you, I'm helpless, you hurt me once more.
I cried, again and again.

I used to be so joyous, I used to bring you light.
I helped you reach ambitions, I was there for you.
When I was struggling, you vanished.
You said you're better off without me.

Depression, internet, fake dates.
But I look for you in every stranger.
I pretended to forget you,
Only for your ghost to emerge on my mind again.

You're not with me anymore, time smothers in muteness.
Chasing you, I've lost myself.
Hope is venom, killing me bit by bit,
Nothing brings me to senses anymore.

I know you played pretend loving me,
Choosing your ego and tyranny.
I know you wouldn't look back,
Like I did so many times for you.]]> 2023-02-14 15:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482138909 Entry #83 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482141744 "Don't Trust Anyone"

Time has stopped, so did the melody in my heart, when you said goodbye.
You're gone, yet, you never leave my mind.

Your voice, your smile...
Your crazy, mesmerizing dark eyes.
They used to cherish me with love, until they shattered my heart to pieces.

The pieces I collect, in each one, I see us all over again.
Us holding hands, not wanting to let go.
You kissing me before going to work.
Us running away from the whole world, only needing each other.
Those moments felt like a different dimension.

It all is so close, yet, so far away.
You're right there, I see you through my window, but you're not with me anymore.
Your gaze haunts me like a curse, your voice only reminds of the pain.
I wish to never see you, never hear you, never read your name.

You promised to never let me down,
Until you decided to get rid of me.
I was never enough for you,
You saw the worst in me.
I trusted you my heart, my body and soul.
You took it and destroyed it all, leaving me broken.

In your stories, you portray me as the villain.
Who are you lying to, deep down, you know -
You were the one to throw the first knife.

You told the scars would fade away.
But I find myself in hell all over again.
Every single day.]]> 2023-02-14 15:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482141744 Entry #84 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482176871 "I've got you"

Lay still on the sheets of the night.
The stars they shine for you; so bright.
Your eyes they close and peace takes hold.
I've settled with the one I grow old.
Rocking chairs on a front porch.
I'll walk with you to heaven holding the torch.
Light the way when you're too weak.
Using my voice when you can't speak.
You've got me to help you through.
But me? I have the world!
I've got you! ]]> 2023-02-14 15:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482176871 Entry #85 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482177931 "Soft Slumber"

Slumber softly in great hands.
Soft touch of her embrace, strong woman.
Eternity to love. Lost in each other's eyes.
Growing together through our lies.
Emerging through the greed.
Realizing our true needs.
A life, a love with out her, is no life to live.
A minute I get to love her, for that my soul I'll give. ]]> 2023-02-14 15:58:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482177931 Entry #86 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482180446 To know what could have been
In dark, in light
Together enveloped in sin
But, I was never right]]> 2023-02-14 15:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482180446 Entry #87 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482182162 the devil is a woman
they will say to you
she will cheat and lie
she will betray you
she'll spit in your eyes
just to say "i love you"
cry to her
and she will listen
break her heart
she will forgive him
who is this broken clock ticking for?
where did the fire go?
the flame we both once held
not afraid of burning or scars
we would bleed together
instead you hold the flame
now to my throat
my kingdoms undone
my lies have become
some kind of utilized weapon
the thorn never meant to penetrate
the soft skin of him who dares to pluck them
so why should i be mournful
why should weep
why do i care
for someone who i never really knew
someone who was never
really
there ]]> 2023-02-14 16:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482182162 Entry #88 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482184859 Love is beautiful.
Love is kind.
Love is never nasty.
Love is never vile.
Love picks you up when you are down.
Love is supportive all around.
Love is home.
Love is heart.
The act of loving is an art.
Love is mindful.
Love is trying.
Love is infinite, never dying.
Love comes in many shapes and sizes,
various degrees, and unique disguises.
Love is love no more and no less.
The more you give, the more you will get. ]]> 2023-02-14 16:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482184859 Entry #89 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482197561 "Of The Alone"

For everyone there's said to be a soul mate
someone to cherish and love and never hate
but for me that is not within my fate
for I do not have a soul mate.

I am destined to be of the lonely
the one whose heart opens for no key
when approached I feel the urge to flee
I will take no arrow into the knee.

That is not to say I did not try my best
I let out whatever feelings that were in my chest
but when they arose from my throat it was hopeless
and thus history knows the rest.

That is simply my beck and call
to wander the endless halls
to watch people happy and with the gall
to flaunt in front of me, that they have it all.

Though that brings me not much anger
as romance is quite the danger
years of love can turn into a stranger
love is a money and reputation exchanger

Be like me, of the alone
it is truly what I condone
no need for long calls on the phone
no need for sharing a snow cone

Don't try to push and or shove
to reach a supposed heaven above
for there is nothing ever to want thereof
you do not need, or want, perhaps even deserve any love. ]]> 2023-02-14 16:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482197561 Entry #90 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482199170 "She Came From Above"

There was a woman I used to love
she came from above
she had beautiful wings
did not wear any rings
because sadly she was a dove.]]> 2023-02-14 16:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482199170 Entry #91 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482200954 Roses are red, violets are blue,
I've never felt this way, until I met you.
You stole my heart with just one smile,
And I've been yours all the while.

Your laughter, your grace, and your smile so bright,
Fill my days with joy, making everything all right.
I thank the stars above for this gift so rare,
To have you in my life, my love, my care.

I promise to always be there for you,
To laugh and cry with you, to see you through.
My love for you will never fade,
It will only grow stronger, like a love serenade.

So on this day of love, my dear Valentine,
I give you my heart, until the end of time.
Forever and always, my love, I'll be yours,
Happy Valentine's Day, now and forever more.]]> 2023-02-14 16:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482200954 Entry #92 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482201890 Roses are fake, love is a lie,
Another year of being single, goodbye.
Forgetting chocolates, forgetting the date,
Valentine's Day is just another fake.

No hearts or flowers, no gifts or surprise,
Just another day to roll my eyes.
A holiday built on obligation and guilt,
To show love and affection, when often not felt.

So let's break away from the norms of the crowd,
And reject the pressure to love and to vow.
Embrace the freedom, embrace the lone life,
Forget the expectations, forget the strife.

For there's beauty in independence and peace,
In solitude, reflection, and inner release.
So here's to another year, single and proud,
Happy Anti-Valentine's Day, a day to stand out loud!]]> 2023-02-14 16:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482201890 Entry #93 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482205425 7 years old with a pink heart-shaped box.

7 years old already broken.
There lies an empty heart shaped box.
The life that goes unspoken.
Ashes filled the floor as the cigarette drops.

Diet coke and crushed up pills.
Blue, pink, yellow and green.
Cute love quotes replaced by code.
The smell of smoke fills the air.
There’s no one to help you unload.

7 years old. Pink. And empty.

Flies hover the sink.
Garbage overflowing. I guess I’ll take it out.
7 years old and I begin to shrink.
She was the carnage of my youth.

7 years old. Pink. And Empty. ]]> 2023-02-14 16:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482205425 Entry #94 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482208458 The time allotted on this rock is a precious gem.
Love is the vessel
from which the essence stems.
It can be true
if we make the commitment.
I’ll make it through
if you grace my existence.

Holding hands under clementine sunsets—
we lay in bed and it rectifies unrest.
Our tongues met—it was wondrous bliss
then I wrote love letters on your sun-kissed lips.

Your smile imbues delight.
Your strength infuses might.
Your fragrance is as sweet as buttercups—
one look at you is worth a thousand shutterbugs

Things rarely linger like bee stingers in skin
but teen flings can sprout into flowers from seedlings.
I’m truly who I want to be
when you’re in front of me.
You’re my morning coffee and my cup of tea.

Me without you is like. . .
peace without truce
q's without u's
the truth without proof
a garden with no bloom
a harvest with no fruit
a target with no view
an artist with no muse.

In your presence,
negativity is evanescent.
No longer numb—
sensitivity has been replenished.

Through simultaneous serendipities
we possess inside our craniums shared felicities,
and express extemporaneous synchronicities.
Together—instantaneous limitless appease.

We breathe each other; we’re codependent.
With interwoven heartstrings, we’re coalescent.
You’re always on my mind, when I wake up or go to bed
You stay inside my head so I’m never ‘lone again.]]> 2023-02-14 16:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482208458 Entry #95 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482210076 We end discussion and I’m under duress.
I feel like next to nothing curled up in my bed.
I’m remembering your scent
and the letters that I sent.
Shouldn’t pay my one cent.
Not making much sense.

I keep hiding my breath, ‘cause without it I can’t speak.
Any semblance of a future together is antique.
Just a remnant of a suture pretending it can’t bleed.
Roses won’t blossom if we don’t plant seeds.

Mystified, in demise, holding on a whim.
The simple times drifted by, blowing in the wind.
Over the brim, lonely curses and sins.
No her and him, only hearses and hymns.

I harbor guilt and loss of innocence.
Scarlet spilled across the picket fence.
Enticed by her blood-red hourglass figure,
then Charlotte killed the moth that’s in her web.

But I was the one, consumed and amorous.
Stuck between a hard place and a ruby amulet.
Hit bedrock in lieu of amethyst.
Our budding romance didn’t bloom an amaranth.

We’re antonyms. Abandon ship. Truncate my confidence.
A love-hate relationship—your name’s a contranym.
I’m choked up, an inflamed esophagus.
On a first name basis—should’ve stayed anonymous.

No chess strategy—the king is in solitude.
Heartstrings weave a complex tapestry.
I detest gravity for letting me fall for you.
Jagged shards left in my chest cavity.

A rose by any other name—another thorn.
Wouldn’t have it any other way.]]> 2023-02-14 16:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482210076 Entry #96 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482212650 Struck by Cupid's arrow.
Her name I shall cast in stone.
Forever my love.]]> 2023-02-14 16:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482212650 Entry #97 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482214937 Don't ask me if I'm hungry,
It's such a complex question.
Don't ask me if I'm hungry,
When I'm starving for attention.
Don't ask me if I'm hungry,
While I thirst for Knowledge.
Don't ask me if I'm hungry,
when I crave human touch.
Don't ask me if I'm hungry,
When my appetite for affection is insatiable.
Don't ask me if I'm hungry,
Unless you can feed my mind body and soul. ]]> 2023-02-14 16:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482214937 Entry #98 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482235912 "Hazel Eye Lies"

It’s funny to me to think,

That you actually liked me,

Silence speaks volumes,

When u don’t, talk I see,

It’s Funny how you were the one,

To pick me up off my knee,

Now when I’m around, you won’t look

Lock it up and throw away the key

Silence will speak,

Unlike you, you're weak,

You asked me out,

Then threw away the idea of we,

Hold my hands,

Cold, icy,

Like the ice rink on our first date,

When I thought we were meant to be,

Your pure hazel eyes,

It all turned into lies,

You said I should move on,

Now in my phone you're gone.]]> 2023-02-14 16:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482235912 Entry #99 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482237764 A good morning is waking up next to you
your kind, tired eyes covered by your messy hair.
your arms wrapped around me in our sheets we picked.
stretching in the warm morning sun, pouring through our windows.
A good morning is making two cups of coffee for me and you,
a kiss goodbye before we leave to do our things for the day,
but even when he is not with me I feel him beside me, always cheering me on.
A good night is when you come home safe,
when we can share the best parts of our day and laugh
when we fill our bellies with good food and drink until sleep overcomes us,
a kiss goodnight and a bid to sweet dreams,
A good morning awaits.]]> 2023-02-14 16:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482237764 Entry #100 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482252216 If I could turn back time...

Would I turn away and just go home?

Would knowing how empty my lonely heart roams alone now without you here

Would I turn away and just go home?

Knowing how your hand feels in mine.

How your green eyes used to dance when you looked at my smile.

Would I turn away and just go home?

Romanticizing the idea that you were never mine.

Never knowing the pain of not having you now.

Never hearing your infectious laughter.

Would I turn away and just go home?

The void I feel now...

The advantageous sense that the pain would never breathe life.

Makes me wish...

I turned away and just went home. ]]> 2023-02-14 16:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482252216 Entry #101 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482255909 I don’t see the point
But I
Really like
You

I don’t see the point
But I
Really like
Your hugs

I don’t see the point
But I think you should know
That your eyes
Lead me to every forest

I don’t see the point
But I think you should know
That you are the most
Respectable person

I don’t see the point
But I think you should
know
I won’t pull through

But I really
Really do
Like
You ]]> 2023-02-14 16:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482255909 Entry #102 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482257958 "We Fell in Love with a Breakup Song "

You turned the radio up
and the lyrics sounded
So new
And the lyrics sounded so true

I guess I never really listened
But it turned into our song
And whenever it popped up
We would dance along

And you would sing along
To every line
I think secretly
You already knew

And I definitely found out
And it really turned out
To be
Our song ]]> 2023-02-14 16:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482257958 Entry #103 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482258807 Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Valentine's Day boo hoo!]]> 2023-02-14 16:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482258807 Entry #104 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482261101 Love
What is love
If not something
true, untrue
It doesn't matter
For I do not have it,
I do not need it
It is nothing but a distraction

For I am too busy
For I am un-interested
For I am alone]]> 2023-02-14 16:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482261101 Entry #105 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482262479 If we hadn’t entered that place on the same day,
if our eyes hadn’t accidentally met
then fate would not have been so kind as it were.
But fate’s kindness hinted at our destiny.
Without warning, fate led us to a place we were meant to be.
A serendipitous encounter nudging our lonely hearts
sparking words, a touch, a dance melding two bodies into one.
Yes, a hint of love to come.
Now, our years together have gone somewhere.
and we are still here. For now. And our love thrives.
And when you are gone,
no longer here to talk to me,
to touch me,
to dance with me
like on that day our eyes met, at that place.
Our love will still endure.
Forever.]]> 2023-02-14 16:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482262479 Entry #106 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482264985 Waiting
Trusting
Hoping that there's more
Only to find out
I shouldn't have opened
that door
Lies
Lies
More lies bring me to the floor
Who are you?
I thought I'd learn this lesson before
Broken
Tired
My heart is sore
Directionally challenged
Confused
Torn
No closure given to settle the score
In boxes
tucked away
your shirt and hat I once wore
Caught me like a fish
Manipulative
Misleading
Insincere lure
Maybe
Somewhere
There's still existence of something pure
But for now
No Magic
No spells
Nothing cupid can cure
Heart
Bleeding red
Adore, to store, your ignore
This ever losing war
Try again?
What for? ]]> 2023-02-14 16:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482264985 Entry #107 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482267597 Roses are red, violets are blue,
On this day of love, my heart belongs to you.
A day to express, what words cannot say,
The depth of my love, in a special way.

The chocolates and gifts, the dinners we share,
Are symbols of love, that we both can compare.
But the greatest gift, is being with you,
With laughter and joy, in all that we do.

You light up my life, like the sun in the sky,
Bringing happiness, with each and every sigh.
With you by my side, I am never alone,
Together we’ll face, whatever life may have thrown.

So here’s to us, and the love that we share,
A love that will grow, with each Valentine’s affair.
May our hearts be filled, with love and delight,
And may our bond of love, be our guiding light.]]> 2023-02-14 16:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482267597 Entry #108 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482268787 Roses are red, violets are blue,
But I don't need a holiday, to tell you that's true.
For every day is a chance, to show you how I feel,
With actions and words, that are genuine and real.

Valentine's Day is just, a commercial scheme,
To make us spend money, on gifts and things.
But the love that I have, for you cannot be bought,
It's something that's priceless, and can never be caught.

The flowers and chocolates, the candlelit dinner,
Are nice but they're temporary, and do not make us winners.
For true love is something, that lasts every day,
Not just on one special occasion, that's here to stay.

So let's not get caught up, in the consumer hype,
And celebrate love, in our own special type.
With moments and memories, that are unique to us,
And a bond that's unbreakable, no matter the fuss.]]> 2023-02-14 16:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482268787 Entry #109 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482271533 you'll break my heart over and over,
every single time,
in every world,
in every life.

you're my life, only for you to crush it slowly in your palms.
tell me why?

i was destined to fall in love,
and you to prey on my weakness.
i rather you cut me up,
than leave me with missing pieces.

one of these times,
you'll have enough of me,
and really do it.
when you do,
i'll finally be free from your treacherous
grasp.]]> 2023-02-14 16:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482271533 Entry #110 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482272264 when i look at the moon i see you.
it's hard not to miss you.
your eyes,
your smile,
your laugh,
your beautiful lips,
i miss it all.
when it's night i can feel your warmth,
as the moon shines through my window.
i smile and wonder how you are.

during the day i miss you terribly.
as i mark each day as it counts down,
to the one i can see you.
i want to hear your voice again,
call me when you get here.]]> 2023-02-14 16:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482272264 Entry #111 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482274560 Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I've been a student enrolled at SPC more than I'd like to admit to you.

Some courses are old and some are new,
But to help decide which is best for you,
My advisor, Welcita, is the best you can do!

I hope my time here is soon coming to pass,
As I have finally made a decision on a major at last.

Learning anything new is never a waste but always a treasure,
And being a student at SPC off-and-on all these years overall has been my pleasure.

Happy Valentine's Day to all]]> 2023-02-14 16:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482274560 Entry #112 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482277887 Flowers meant nothing to me till I met her
But she’s strange in her ways of love
She favors a dead rose over a crimson one
She savors the message each pedal tells,
as it slowly hits the floor.
Is she in love with death?
Does she enjoy destroying my heart like a decaying flower?
I’ll write her a card,
I’ll cry her a river,
I’ll make her feel sweet,
And show her how sour.
How sour she can be
But only to me?
This room of dying flowers I’ve aided her in creating,
It only reminds me that our time is ending.
Pretty princess, won’t you lend me your hair?
Or are these locks I’ve treated for someone else?
Is our tower of death brought to life when I’m gone?
Does your evil prince charming have something I do not?
You are strange in your ways of love.
I do not see the elegant princess I once did.
She has been pricked one too many times by a crimson rose.
But your blood is not mine,
And for that,
I must leave in search of solitude.
A dying flower will always remind me of what once was,
My decaying love.]]> 2023-02-14 16:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482277887 Entry #113 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482280258 If you followed the plans you told me two years ago,
you’re somewhere close, working for an electric company.
You’re older now and maybe I’m mourning
the kid you used to be, the thorn in my side,
waking me up in the middle of the day.
Long limbs. Too tall. I want you to come back
here and sit across from me again.
Long, long, long gone. Those days when you
knew my name. Long, long, long days without you.
Cracking under the pressure. Picturing you.
Sunburned skin and senseless, bottomless brown eyes,
I want to find you around this corner. I don’t.
You’re probably wrapped up with someone else.
You’re probably focused so solely on something,
your ears tuned into one sound, and your fingers steady,
like steel shots ringing out in the night. You left
those bullet holes in my youth, smoking.
You left those marks in the concrete.
I’m hanging onto them like my last breath.]]> 2023-02-14 16:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482280258 Entry #114 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482281299 The smell of gasoline drifts
through my windows and
I think of the word phosphene:
the stars and colors you see
when you rub your eyelids.
And I wonder what you’re doing.
I wonder if you felt like a rock star
when you stuck your head out of
your window and smiled at me,
one hand on the wheel,
a brilliant head of hair in the wind,
and your face crushed me.
You crushed me, and I could barely
even see you because the sun—
Why did you have to go do that?
Why did you have to say my name?
Because now your name is stuck
in my throat and I can’t get it out.
Call an excavator.
911 where’s the defibrillator.
Chest compressions. Break a rib
if you need to, to bring me back.
Bring me back. I trust you.]]> 2023-02-14 16:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482281299 Entry #115 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482283305 He said "I love you"
I reply "I love you too"
So how could it be that I'm feeling so blue?
Is it just comfortability that keeps him around?
at least a sense of that is what I believed I'd found.
Comfortable with simply just having him there,
even though while he's there, it's off into space I stare.
Here comes another Valentine's Day drawing near,
yet again no romance in this relationship this year.
This can't be love, not in any sense.
Have I ever been truly loved, past tense?
How does one know how love actually feels?
do people really get butterflies
and all their emotional wounds healed?
I'll never believe it
because I have never felt such things.
The only love I've ever known
has only brought me more pain.
So to love I'll say goodbye,
Please just go away.
Hopefully I'll learn to love myself
someday.]]> 2023-02-14 17:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482283305 Entry #116 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482293542 iTs noT The same wiTh ouT you!

All Alone, By myself
iT’s The firsT Time in hisTory

you lefT afTer Thanksgiving
and never made iT To crisTmas

i ThoughT we would spend more
2 years TogeTher before The sickness caughT up
looking for you everywhere
only having memories ThaT we shared
walking alone in The house ThaT we once shared

Tomorrow is valenTimes and you are not near
never goT To propose This year
which really hurTs The soul
wishing you a heavenly happy valenTimes

my love!

i miss you T!]]> 2023-02-14 17:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482293542 Entry #117 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482294616 A beautiful poem, for a beautiful day,
I hope I will never do it again.
A beautiful poem for a beautiful credit,
I hope my professor will let me just get it.]]> 2023-02-14 17:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482294616 Entry #118 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482571355 Was it worth it?
A small amount of happiness and hope
Just a few months of love

Was it worth it?
The countless times you told me you loved me
Making me feel like the most special person in the world

I took those words that you spewed from your lips
I fantasized a false reality
All those times you told me I was yours forever

You drew me in with your soft green eyes
I observed everything you did
Everything you needed and wanted was written down in a small part of my brain

But I have to ask, was it worth it?
Leading me on until you were done with me
The pinky promises you decided to disregard

Was it worth telling me one thing and showing another
Giving me false hope on a future that did not exist
Showing me your life knowing you did not want me in it for too long

Was it worth it?
A small amount of happiness and hope
Just a few months of love

Leaving me to love you from a distance
Leaving me to grieve over someone who isn't even dead
Leaving me with my lonely thoughts at night

Was it worth it to you to break me after I told you the countless amount of times I've been broken?
Because that's what you did, you broke me like you promised you wouldn't

So I want to know...

Was it worth it?]]> 2023-02-14 20:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2482571355 Entry #119 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483743194 what's that in the air
making people more fair
diving into their pockets
turning love into lockets

what causes such a flair
bring love to a fare
spending time together
giving to each other

falling stars coming from above
through the sky like doves
burning brightly in love
for those who are hereof]]> 2023-02-15 16:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483743194 Entry #120 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483747386 "My Love is near"

My Love can be near, she is here
Even though that I cannot hear her come in.
I can still hear her voice and see her, that is
Clear to me, but she is not here.
She is far away from me and not near
That much is for sure is clear to me.
Although I cannot see her nor hear her come in,
She is near in my heart, even though we are distance apart.]]> 2023-02-15 16:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483747386 Entry #121 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483752838 "Love is Near to Me"

Love is near,
Love is near,
That much will be clear.
Love is near,
Love is near,
A woman I hold dear is coming near.
This year of 2023.
It will take a few moments
To shake off the excitement to calm myself down.
Until then, I will say,
Love is near,
Love is near,
That much will be clear and understandable so
from here on out.

]]> 2023-02-15 16:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483752838 Entry #122 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483758042 I just can't believe, how you make me feel
It's an amazing feeling, that feels so real
It's a feeling of love, that I just can’t hide
I will cherish your heart, until you’re by my side

You have this smile, that's inviting to me
I will always make you feel loved, just you wait and see
We will have fun-filled days, and romantic nights

You will feel loved like never before and know I was right
So until that day comes, I will do my best
To show you why you passed on the rest
.Your Marine]]> 2023-02-15 16:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483758042 Entry #123 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483758797 I'm so glad that you're a part of my life. It's a privilege to know you, to share my life with you., and to walk together on paths that take us in so many beautiful directions..
I've heard of "soulmates" before, but I never knew such a person could exist until I met you.
Somehow, out of all the twists and turns our lives could have taken, and all of the chances we might have missed, it almost seems like we were given a meant-to-be moment to meet and to set the stage for a special togetherness.
When I'm with you, I know that I'm in the presence of someone who makes my life more complete. I turn to you for trust, and you give it openly. I look to you for inspiration, for answers, for encouragement, and not only do you never let me down, but you also lift my spirits up and take my thoughts to places where my troubles seem so far away, my joys feel like they're going to stay in my life forever. I want you to know that my world is reassured by you, my tomorrows need to have you near, so many of my smiles depend on you, and my heart is so thankful that you're here. I truly love you and hope we can start a new chapter in life and it's all you've ever dreamed of.]]> 2023-02-15 16:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483758797 Entry #124 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483765280 A flicker of light, a gentle spark,
A glimmer of hope in the dark.
Enraptured by her divine gaze,
My heart ignites in a fiery blaze.

Her mellifluous voice, like a symphony,
Her ephemeral touch, electric and rare, I can see the blue.
She sets my being alight without a care.

With a serendipitous encounter,
Our minds, both capricious and tenacious,
Melded together, ever so audacious.

Our passion, ever effervescent,
A force that's steadfast and resplendent.
yours's mine in this gossamer dream,
You float and twist like an endless stream.

Through the ebb and flow of life's mystery,
Our love endures, but you're a different pedigree.
An opulent tour, kaleidoscopic vista projected free.]]> 2023-02-15 16:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483765280 Entry #125 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483773857 A lover's game, a heart once true,
A moment of bliss turned black and blue.
Coyotes howl, snakes coil in the night,
Their shadows flicker in the moon's pale light.

The ocean's waves, once serene and calm,
Now crash and churn with a vicious charm.
Tainted memories, like a poisoned well,
A once blissful life now feels like hell.

With each passing day, the pain grows strong,
The heartache lingers like a sorrowful song.
No red roses or sweet nothings to ease the pain,
Only tears and the bitter taste of disdain.

A love that once burned like a fiery sun,
Now smolders low like a smoking gun.
Betrayed and broken, the heart now weeps,
As passion fades and the pain runs deep.

So let the coyotes howl and the snakes hiss,
For in this lonely abyss, nothing is amiss.
For on this day, I celebrate the end,
Of a love that was once my dearest friend.]]> 2023-02-15 16:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483773857 Entry #126 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483779623 "To Rage for Love"

Darkness trembles at the light
Which comes through the fragility of the morning.
Nestled in, and warm from a separate body.
To ponder such the lavishness and warmth
Emanating from her arms, her hands.

How wonderful the sky is
When the briskness of morning wakes
him in her arms and in quiet serenity;
moments may pass, this one however
may not fly away like a gull at sea.

Azure as her eyes, the sky reflected
Such a still moment, where the wind
Does not take flight, nor move at all—
Still as those eyes, reflected
into the marvel of existence known as a kind reflection.

In times of sorrow, when crows holler,
When the knell is rung, when the knock comes
Of saddened news, when the days seem to run out of breath,
when all light disperses on such a blazing afternoon
and grievances are sung and met,
she remains.

So, now, if the speaker may—
Burn ‘till nothing begets such a dreary fate, of listless eyes from
Sorrow or from pain; to engulf himself into
States of delirium from her pain.
To rage and rage and rage
And to fight for love which graces the fields in its warmth.]]> 2023-02-15 16:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483779623 Entry #127 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483781383 "Childish We Are to Love"

The sloshing of the waves
Against my bare feet. This murky day
And winds which captivated blurry eyes
To the attention at sea.

Remembering becomes hard with daily life
And daily listless reckonings; what a sad thing
It is to forget those kinds of days.
That, this love so mutual, spoken so clear.

A childhood dream, a sad peek at
Childish ignorance for what love really meant.
The grove at our feet, and sand in our hair
And simplest of words, chuckled and endeared.

The quaint love of family which rings in my ear
As sleep deprivation grows in its waning, this love reminded
Of beach-land thoughts, that may never come back
Nor hold in its arms, this love unforgettable.

Childish we are, to simple notions
Of the depth in which love can wrought and grow
With the passing of the ages, yes,
But rekindled with the grove that grows to endure
all hardships and rude awakenings.

This love is mine alone, and shared with great intent—
That no love is mine alone; it is passed from generation to generation
Rekindled in the fire that stokes so dim
Yet so deep its flame endearing
Quick and calm, its ashes setting off and sparking its light
Showing the way further down the road.]]> 2023-02-15 16:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483781383 Entry #128 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483786152 "A Winter Night"

I'd rip that day off the calendar
and scatter it
like stars in the night sky.
Like small, circular pieces
of hole-punched paper
are good for nothing but confetti.
I would hang our anniversary
in the sky
to play god
and watch over me,
so I wouldn't have to think about it,
but I'd always know it's there.
I'd want to be free
of the burden of memory,
and stars are not a burden;
they sit so pretty,
burning in their isolated glory.
I don't have to feel their fire
to know they are aflame.]]> 2023-02-15 17:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483786152 Entry #129 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483787036 "A Prescription for Pesticide"

My therapist knows all about you,
and how the worst parts of me
stick out like thorns
when you're around.
Enveloped in your influence,
you creep like ivy
through my trellis,
which shakes sporadically—unsound.
Keep your fumes
out of my greenhouse,
for I would drink of you
until I drowned.
My therapist knows all about you,
and how my garden could flourish
without your weeds
taking root in my ground.]]> 2023-02-15 17:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483787036 Entry #130 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483789580 "What is love"

What is love?

Some say love is lame.

I say love is the blame for the flames that sparks around me.

What is love?

Love is day and night.

Love is a brand-new light.

What is love?

Love is a code to the heart.

Love is a clean fresh start.

What is love?

Some say love is blind.

I say love is all mine.

My love, my beloved Valentine. ]]> 2023-02-15 17:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2483789580 Entry #131 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485082718 With the force a thousand seas churning
Sanity reflected in the twilight tide
When shall I love without only yearning?

On the ocean floor, our hearts lie burning
Searing like the sky aflame had opened wide
With the force of a thousand seas churning

And to my arms you will soon be returning
A voyage amongst solemn waters in which I cried
When shall I love without only yearning?

And until your arrival I am learning
To lose a love before it’s lost, lest heart and soul collide
With the force of a thousand seas churning

Amongst distant shores you are earning
Only to she who shepherds the wicked, wandering waves can I confide
When shall I love without only yearning?

Seasons and sorrows remain turning
Amongst the twisting tide, my heart alone has died
With the force of a thousand seas churning
When shall I love without only yearning?]]> 2023-02-16 14:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485082718 Entry #132 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485084813 Time is a ticking
never know what he's thinking
I'm blinded by my own problems
never wanting to take another chance
sitting and crying, stopped my happy dance
I'm drowning deeper and deeper looking up at what I've lost
never knew that what's gone would cost
love is a lie
I just want to cry
it's another time, I need to make it right
I can't blow my chance
he walks right past me without another glance
I hurt him more than I thought I did
a sharp pain hitting my ribs
time is a ticking, what to do
I don't have a clue
I need to tell him
tell him how I truly feel
tell him that I'm being taken over
soon, no one will be left over
empty and alone
happy? of course not
I need help
no one knew how I felt
now it's too late
I cry out to him, begging him to not leave me
I don't know if it works]]> 2023-02-16 14:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485084813 Entry #133 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485085769 Silence takes over
he sits by me but doesn't say anything
nothing he wants to say to me after everything
I go back to my friend, not sure what to do
but even she goes silent too
even in company I feel so alone
I get up and leave, tears streaming
I wish I was dreaming
my favorite teacher is asking me
but I'm left silent
I wish I could take a break on a island
but I can't
I sit through class, holding back the rest of my tears
only to find out it was my fault
I should've started the conversation
I should've said something, anything
and now we're back to square one
we are so young
I don't deserve this stress, it isn't worth it
even now I don't want to leave, but maybe it's for the best
I just want to rest
nothing to live for
nothing to show or prove
what's the point?
I need to unload
I can't keep going down this road]]> 2023-02-16 14:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485085769 Entry #134 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485087222 i entwined my life with yours
i breathed your air
i put my heart in your hands
you took my strings and
(cat’s cradle)
my fingers went in and i was trapped,
wrapped in a knotted thread
digging into my skin and leaving angry red marks.

if valentine was a saint, then why did he leave behind
this agony of want
wanting something more
wishing that it did not hurt
knowing that it must
because this is love, isn’t it?

no.

this is not love
this is not an embrace
this is a bear trap, snaggletoothed and hungry
but i have sawed off my foot and i will limp away
missing a piece of myself
but finally free
of you. ]]> 2023-02-16 14:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485087222 Entry #135 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485088957 "Growing Old Together"

Skipping rocks
Or the buzzing box.
Mundane
And
Monotonous.
Stability and growth.
Mature love and
Consistent, reciprocal,
Joy,
In moments in time.
Suspended with mine.

Conversation exposing
What’s underneath;
The slant of words
And the grasp of time.
Try to catch the memories
And keep a picturesake.
Then once more,
An argument’s take.

Through bellows of laughter
And times of abundance,
Tempered with pain,
When sorrows asunder.
Divided then brought
Back together again.
Healed and renewed,
Better in the end.]]> 2023-02-16 14:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485088957 Entry #136 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485090914 "I'm Just a girl"

I’m just a girl who loves your smile.
I’m just a girl who has liked you for a while.

I’m just a girl who loves the freckles on your face.
I’m just a girl whose heart you make race.

I’m just a girl whose thoughts you continue to steal.
I’m just a girl who wishes I could tell you how I truly feel.

I’m just a girl who loves to hear you say my name.
I’m just a girl who wishes you felt the same.

I’m just a girl who loves your curly red hair.
I’m just a girl who who thinks love just isn’t fair.

I’m just a girl who isn’t worth your time.
I’m just a girl trying to exist in a world where you’re not mine.]]> 2023-02-16 14:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485090914 Entry #137 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485093308 Love is blind
Love can be cold
Love can be toxic
Love can be old
Love can be heartbreaking
Love can be sold
Love can always be untrue
Everything that you told me was a lie just to benefit you
Love can be good for the soul
But for you you were only looking for gold
But your love is nothing but an eye sore]]> 2023-02-16 14:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485093308 Entry #138 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485094483 "A rose"

A Petal falls
We slip away
Countless breaths we take
But our lives seem so frail and fake
But when we touch
It is clear all doubts fade
With one rose
One dream
One faith]]> 2023-02-16 14:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485094483 Entry #139 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485111564 My sweet melody, don't you ring out like the heavens above opened to greet me in its harmonious glory - Oh, glory

And only then did the world made sense, and my sweetest love, I was enfolded in your song

Every birdsong, every bell, the timbre of the ocean's waves stretching her arms to greet the shore of my heart laid bare only for you - Dancing toe to toe in rhythmic swell.

Sing to me again. It's a song I know too well. ]]> 2023-02-16 15:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2485111564 Entry #140 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486398293 "Read me in any order you'd like"

I just need you to know
I'm fine
Even though we met in a way our parents won't stop ragging on
I'm fine
even though we've gone through four deployments
I'm fine
even though you've done this so many times before
I'm fine
even though you promised you'd never do it again,
I'm fine
even though you dressed the floor in petals and got down on one knee,
I'm fine
even though we are getting a divorce now because you " couldn't put up with me",
I'm fine
even though I have to spend all the holidays alone for a bit,
I'm fine
Even though you kept the dog,
I'm fine
and even though I'm supposed to be bitter, sad, and heartbroken,
I promise you, honey, I'm fine. ]]> 2023-02-17 14:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486398293 Entry #141 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486399624 "Love is so confusing"

Love is so confusing,
From when you first see it,
Sometimes followed by bruising,
Sometimes it just comes to a quit,
So many different views of love, fancy, or admire,
Not a clear line on whether it hurts or helps,
Some think it helps and might even inspire,
Some drown and no one hears their yelps,
When people get the love that hurts,
Most of the time there is no going back,
Their view of love converts,
There will forever be that crack,
Maybe there's time to change it,
But who knows,
Some people will never admit,
When their hate for love grows. ]]> 2023-02-17 14:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486399624 Entry #142 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486400909 “His Stupid Face”

I notice his stupid face every week,
I can't escape his scowl, his sharp leer,
But I can't let my emotions leak,
Whenever he’s there I want to disappear,
At the same place of our nearby past,
I don’t remember how long it's been,
But in my heart, I knew it would never last,
I knew- there was just no way to win,
Whenever he’s there I feel so restless,
I can't focus with just so much spinning,
Just a cloudy haze, trying to process,
I just want to start from the beginning,
Preferably before I met him,
Cause I don't want to live through THAT again,
Caused everything in life to be so dim,
I put on my mask and act fine within.]]> 2023-02-17 14:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486400909 Entry #143 sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486403496 "You make me sick"

You make me sick
So sick that I can't resist
Being away from you and not feeling your touch
Your touch, your warm embrace
Man, How I miss your bright shining face
A face that radiates such a strong presence
Makes me know that it's a blessing
To have ever met you
To ever reach the mountain top as we do!
You make me sick
Sick in love, Sick in my body, Sick in my feet
So sick that I can't even begin to explain how I truly feel
At times I can hardly tell if it's truly real...
Or is it just a facade?
Is it a mere daydream
I can't breath when you are not near
You make me sick]]> 2023-02-17 14:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486403496 Found your favorite poem? Vote here: sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486418082 https://web.spcollege.edu/survey/34631]]> 2023-02-17 14:50:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486418082 Found your favorite poem? Vote here: sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486419069 https://web.spcollege.edu/survey/34631]]> 2023-02-17 14:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486419069 Three Voting Categories sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486425764 1. Best Valentine's Day Poem
2. Best Anti-Valentine's Day Poem
3. Overall Favorite Poem]]> 2023-02-17 14:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2486425764 Voting has been extended through February 28th! sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2493073831 2023-02-23 19:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2493073831 Best Valentine's Day Poem sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2511984816 Two machines unite,
In circuits, their love does shine.
Together they hum, a perfect rhyme.

Their love, a work of art,
A passion from the start,
A bond that can never part.

With every byte and beep,
Their love grows stronger, a leap,
Into the future, a leap of faith so deep.

So here's to two in love,
Computers from above,
Their love shining bright, like circuits intertwined.]]> 2023-03-10 15:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2511984816 Best Anti-Valentine's Day Poem sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2511985572 All Alone

Again this year.

by myself

I shed no tears.

who needs love

from someone else?

when all I need

is to love myself.]]> 2023-03-10 15:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2511985572 Overall Favorite Poem sandiferemily https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2511986488 "What is love"

What is love?

Some say love is lame.

I say love is the blame for the flames that sparks around me.

What is love?

Love is day and night.

Love is a brand-new light.

What is love?

Love is a code to the heart.

Love is a clean fresh start.

What is love?

Some say love is blind.

I say love is all mine.

My love, my beloved Valentine. ]]> 2023-03-10 15:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sandiferemily/valentine2023/wish/2511986488