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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Admire #2

I see words screaming
for attention
etched in the lines
of your face
Let me look closer
and read deeper
into you
Let me write poems
about your life
and eventually
about your death
Let me love you
from a distance
with words that
cut like knives

(2013)

#Death #Life #Love

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Icarus

You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
 1
Dark

I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
Nature

There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
 2
Gently

I hope this is postmarked before my death certificate is dat… but you’ll know why if it is or if it isn’t If you get this in time
Empty

I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
 1
Poets

All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
 1
Meaning

I’ll keep searching for the meaning of life and I hope I find it as crumpled paper nearish a trash can
Friend

There is something to be said of a true friend One who will pull the knife from your back One who will stitch the wounds
Faulty

I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
 1
Rebirth

I see no joyous rebirth in spring for autumn will bring another death I see no joyous rebirth
Silence

I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
Uphill

Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
Admire #1

I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
 1
 3
Split

I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
Understatement

To put it simply each beat of your heart is a gift that I receive with the anticipation of a child at christmas



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