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Pygmalion by Ashley Nicole Coleman

Feb 6, 2012 Poetry

Tell it to me straight–
Are you an alien?
Because you’re sure out of this world
Wouldn’t it be great
If just like Pygmalion
You’d carve of me your perfect girl?

Leaving amateur kisses
With my virgin lips
Please just forgive me
For such sloppiness

Breathe me into life
Don’t take it away
A statue grows cold with neglect
Make me your wife
Didn’t you say?
Like lightning, our lives intersect

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Tonic by Ashley Nicole Coleman

Jan 21, 2012 Poetry

I wrote a song for you today
But it got lost along the way

I thought I’d try to sound it out
Like stream shot from a kettle’s spout

My voice felt shrill, with dissonance
In front of all your innocence

For from your lips, the plainest word
Is beautiful, just like a bird

It dissipates, your love for me
I guess I over-seeped the tea

Came on a bit too strong for you
You’ve no taste for my dark hue

But somehow I still can’t describe
How you made me feel inside

For just a moment there in time
I was yours and you were mine

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Deadly Seduction by Ashley Nicole Coleman

Jan 21, 2012 Poetry

Your eyes are haunting
And so slick
A special kind
Of magic trick

Undressed me with a gaze, in awe
I slowly slip out of my bra

A tempered, even look, with heat
As the clothes fall at my feet

My hands up high, I plead defeat
But you have blocked every retreat

How can I look at you like this?
How can I fight a stolen kiss?

With you, I’ve no way to refuse
You’ve captivated this fragile muse

My inhibition loose, I fall
No need for any rohypnol
Tonight you’ll have me on the wall
Tomorrow, you’ll forget to call

And lonely by the phone
I’ll be left alone
With just a dial tone
The echo of a moan

Ringing on the other side
Should’ve known that he had lied…

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Eve’s Lament by Ashley Nicole Coleman

Jan 17, 2012 Poetry

When Adam rejected her
Eve didn’t know what to do
Her bones ached for him
The parts he gave to God
To craft her form

How she was made
–He was in her nature
A rib was all it took
And she didn’t know how to be
Without her Adam

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Fine China by Ashley Nicole Coleman

Jan 17, 2012 Poetry

Shattered on the kitchen floor
‘Cause you don’t love me anymore
Isn’t working, can’t ignore
There’s nothing here left like before

You picked me out among the rest
And I became your honored guest
Did my studies, passed the test
Thought you said I was the best

But nothing’s as it was that day
The special feeling fades away
And now I’m left with bills to pay
With broken pieces on display

So I’ll go to the corner shop
In the aisle, I will stop
And buy your favorite soda pop
So I can watch the crystal drop

Maybe it’s fate that went awry
That caused our fragile love to die
Led your little tongue to lie
Left me lonely here to cry

Funny, all the skills you lack
To tell them you’re not coming back
In your swift, uncaring attack
Leaving pain in every crack

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Closure by Ashley Nicole Coleman

Jan 3, 2012 Poetry

Hello again
Remember when?
‘Cause my mind can’t forget
You creep into my thoughts, you know
But now I gotta let you go
Sometime, just not yet

We’ve got some talkin’
To get to
Some heart-to-heartache swappin’
And then a few
So let’s start walkin’
And catch up on what’s new

Some arm-in-arm
Some cheek-to-cheek
Some face-to-face
Sometime this week
A waltz across
Some hazy street

No one else, just me and you
A little kind of rendezvous
When you lay to sleep
I’m free at 2 a.m., dreamin’
So join me if your soul is leaving
Secret, I won’t peep

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I Loved You by Ashley Nicole Coleman

Dec 25, 2011 Poetry

I loved you in
The half light of dawn
Before I even saw your face
I loved you there
With curtains drawn
Veiled behind linen and lace

I loved you when
The overcast
Clouded every feature
I loved you then
That precious past
Back where I could reach her

I loved you most
When daylight came
And draped across your skin
I loved you true
No doubt or shame
Each scar on figure thin

I loved you so
Wrapped close around
Your soft and fragile frame
I loved you ’til
The only sound
I heard was your sweet name

I love you now
And always will
Wherever you may be
I loved you how?
You ask me still
This love’s too bright to see

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Come Closer by Ashley Nicole Coleman

Dec 15, 2011 Poetry

The summer melts the frost around me
But I’m still stricken with the cold
A lazy dreamer repremended
From any thoughts of getting old

I barely knew the gloss and glimmer
The touch of softness in your eyes
The liquid kisses start to simmer
’til they burn me by surprise

My selfish shadow is forgiving
Never thought it’d be alone
While all this life I should be living
Just sits there like a stone
A lonely unloved flower wilting
Waiting to be outgrown….

‘Cause I can find you in a memory
If I look for long enough
But it won’t bring you back again
So I’ll call your bluff

I’m all in this time
If you’re game
Don’t say you don’t
Feel the same

The tables turned
Empty glasses
Shifting glances
Haunting passes

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Homeless by Ashley Nicole Coleman

Dec 2, 2011 Poetry

A roof doesn’t give me
It’s coat when it’s cold
Doesn’t talk of the weather
Or of us growing old

The table is full
By the placemats are gone
Your bedside is pressed
But the curtain is drawn

A meal doesn’t give me
A comfort, a song
Doesn’t fill up my heart
When something is wrong

The water is running
I’ve an ocean to drain
But my thirst is still quenching
And my cheeks forecast rain

A sheet doesn’t warm me
The way it once had
Doesn’t hold with the closeness
Whether happy or sad

The bills are all paid
And the living is good
But it doesn’t feel like it
Least not as it should

 

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The Best I Can Get by Ashley Nicole Coleman

Dec 2, 2011 Poetry

The picture of us swings
Clings desperate to the wall
The shattering frame stings
More than the tumbling fall

This is no longer working
Words don’t help at all
How can I walk away?
It’s a struggle just to crawl

Well I’m sorry if I wasn’t
What you always wanted
Something you would’ve
Flashed and proudly flaunted

“The best that I can get…”
Guess I wasn’t ever worth that
At least now I surely know
Exactly where your hearts at
And I can’t reach it…

 

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