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Summer Evenings: A Poem

By: Amira K. September 23, 2019September 23, 2019

Compositions, Poemsblogging, creative, creative writing, dusk, evening, featured, poem, poems, Poetry, reading, summer, summer evenings, writing2 Comments

Sweet is my memory That I am not a morning person– Glorying in the dawn, the revelatory nutty scent of brewing coffee– No. I prefer dusk. Evenings, the onset of dew The fade of heat into something more gentle The smell of dry grass, ready to seed, giving way to rose petal, wet earth. For…

Crystallized: A Poem

By: Amira K. May 25, 2016May 25, 2016

Compositions, Poemscold, frozen, ice, lost, love, poems, Poetry, summer, winter, writing2 Comments

Blue lips Cold bird Half-buried in snow. Don’t tell me You’re gone. White boughs Heavy Limbs That ache, tired. When you fell In On the twenty-first of December I knew Then. Summer is here now But you are still Crystallized. Don’t tell me – I know. Where you’ve gone. Image: “Dormantic” by Gohmn on ello.co

I Wanted To Love You

By: Amira K. December 13, 2013December 12, 2013

Compositions, Musingsfall, fiction, flash fiction, Friday Phrases, love, spring, summer, winter4 Comments

In the snow, we whistled, chased birds, threw ourselves down hills, ran along railroad tracks and chased trains blindly through the soft senescent light of streetlights. We drank tea and coffee and ran together and fought and I broke the spines of your books as an act of vengeance. In the flowers, we bled, we…