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Touch me.
It’s been a while since
someone got through.
Tell me a sentence
that you truly mean,
that you can guarantee
you’ll still mean
a year from now.
Sing me a song
with a melody you have to
cut something of yourself
open before you can
have the courage
to sing it.
Tell me a truth.
Hold it against the light.
Let me see the back
of it through the front,
and everything
in between.
I want to watch how
something that’s
important to you,
bleeds.
Don’t get yourself hurt
on account of me, but
feel an earnest feeling
in honor of me.
Affect me.
Make me feel like getting up.
Make it real.
Move me like
there’s something
that doesn’t belong
where it is,
that needs to be shifted
and make me restless
until I’ve shifted it.
Stir my blood.
Make me blush.
Make this blizzard relevant.
Don’t hurry on
with your collar
up to your ears
with no more than
a passing glance.
An entire crew stepped
their boots all over
the dying embers
of my hearth,
grinding it down
shapeless
into the snow
near-fatally frostbitten
with expression
left unspoken
through three seasons
and my heartbeat is
slowing down
to a crawl.
I need to borrow
some warmth from somewhere.
That’s why
I need you to touch me.
.
Desert Rose said:
God..you just made me cry…..and i needed to.
littlemisshomosapien said:
Wow.. Quality stuff. Here’s to your brilliance.
Linda Walton-Robinson said:
Stirring as always.
Tom Baker said:
This is beautiful Iris. Your poems create such feeling and imagery. It’s amazing – like you paint a canvas with your words. Great work!
Melissa Mcintire said:
Iris never stop!!!!! ♥
Lalah said:
This is BEAUTIFUL!!!!! Wooow! This is Cinematic!!!! I can see the whole picture! You’re sooooo in the BIG LEAGUES with your writings!!!!!
Goodyman said:
You are amazing…
Bella Perez-Rubio said:
I love your poems!! GRRH!! When I read your poems i start out getting offended at how you could possibly know so much about me, and then I realize you were not even thinking about me when you wrote them, and I get offended even more! Haha!
You say I love your poems because I know you and the true story behind each of them, but actually I don’t care who you’re writing for because really, every time you write you’re writing for so many people.
thepilogue said:
“Sing me a song
with a melody you have to
cut something of yourself
open before you can
have the courage
to sing it”
I love how honest this is, and the whole thing really
Brenda Torres said:
Someone whose become important to me says….”Cinema straight to the heart”….The Universe is TRULY Awesome….and that’s an understatement!!!!
Iris Orprecio…you are a definite…”Killing me” kinda girl….and I say that with much affection!!!!! from my heart…Thank you!!!