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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Living

Everyday brings
a new death
in three words
give or take
Some days I drown
as if life were a flood
and I wore shackles
Some days bring suffocation
weights aimed to press
my chest into itself
And as long as
I am dying
I find it hard
to live

(2013)

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Altre opere di Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
Poets

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

Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
Always

I wrote this while thinking of you so I guess you could say this poem is eight years in the making
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Mountain

If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
Canvas

I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back
Dark

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

Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
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Paper Heart

My heart was paper
 now folded six times over
 to make it harder
 to tear
 I only hope that

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Whisper

I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
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Hello

There seems to be a drought in my… but who knows if it is the cause or the result of the war raging within me
Knowing

Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
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
Human/Nature

If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains
Rebirth

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



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