http://slow.writerscafe.org/EmSvets13 The original writings of author I Am Svetlana en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775947476 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Seasons were never nameless.You were never meant to die young.How could one forget you?The one with a sweet voice& gentle hands�"youate others loneliness.Instilled a calmness in me,became another source of light.Have you been dreaming lately?I’ll make sure toname a star after y.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/3128918/ The world seems to shrinkwhenever I need to mask the storm of emotions beneath.It is not a kind creatureeven in the shallows.I find sanctuary in the small things.Such calm let’s me forget who I am.Quiet, calculating.I’m grateful that no one herecan read my mind.A single girl laughin.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/3128287/ Straight spine, squared shoulders, distinguished, intimidating.Over the dark fields,he could see what the world really looked like& curse over what’s to come.Discover if all the stories are true.It may be what saves us in the end.In chaotic times like these,wars are not cheap.Presence.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/3128286/ I hear your wordsthrough my wounds.You are beautiful in a way that I cannot explain.There is a heartinside of you,heard & echoed.For every ending,lay by my side."I'll be yours forevermore."I wanted love,but not just anyone's.Just someone to love methrough this, with tearsfighting to stay wi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2942648/ You can never 'unscar' me.The damage is done.These scars are witnesses& have become my friends.I am fighting wars insideof what you did to me& got away with.Others wondering wheremy happiness went.There still come dayswhen pain wakes up with me,but I am not hereto wish that same pain.The wor.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2942647/ I sat down with my words.Then all my words transformed.Pages are too full,the lines have no more room.What took time to enterwill also take time to leave.Grieving while healing,being at peace with a hurtful past.My words told me:"Take the pain &turn it into poetry." http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2942644/ Like a marionette,you were gentle with me.Your feelings were genuine.Hiding behind smiles.Falling back into the momentswhen you had no intentionof loving me.One breath at a time.The fact that you were ableto give love, and Itold him: "Be the master."To the beginning of how it all began.I go back &am.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2941044/ Blow out the candles.Her candles for the dead.Shaking hands forever.Greeting the mourners,each in silencecarrying loss like a bomb.This torn lighton a still afternoon.Arranging the flowers,must look perfect.Let you weep with usin the dark.These are legal gatherings. They want to sing--the call .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2834048/ A lost hiker, a lost traveleron his way acrossthe surface of a poem.Hopefully to find outwhat it really means.He waves atthe author's name,then continues tothe place where emotionis to be found. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2834046/ You are a foolto be in love with me.I am a fool to be in love with you.The suicide lovers.The weight of dreamspulls us lower.Eager to eat the world.Talk is dangerous.The world's loneliest tea party.I have something to saywhich may be difficult to hear.Let's sit... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2834045/ Lips to touchlike some horrible symphony.Emotional devilsof ocean & earth,the bridge of timeinto tomorrow.Lost in the story,interact with dreaming.Our breath into anotherafter midnight.Come winter, death knocks.None of my loversseem to notice.Attracted to the silence,meet me here while I se.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2830478/ The sun is peekingthrough dark cloudsmore beautiful than before.Now my dry lipssmile to deceive others.A sober thought--being alone is unbearable.A restless soul,late nights under the moon.It rarely gets easier.I know what's to come--the greatest lie.Lies like razors.Please notice the sadnessin my e.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2830477/ Slowly going under,the type of high my mind cravesyou could no longer see me spill my words.My peace interrupted,eyes swelling with water.I became a ghost to you.Every minute of every day,I will never be the same.Just lying there alone.Overthinking, filled with words.Head in the cloudsin places you'.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2830476/ Sitting here in ruinsreading these wordskept my love safe.I know you're restlessburied alive.My love for my lover.I spoke to you in the future.Believing in you again.You are only here in fantasy.When this life ends,allow me to burn your lips.To be a reminderabout theimpression you leave.  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2830475/ Everything is poetry,within your mind & heart.A woman's emotionstrying to write away pain.The most loyal hearts.In love with a dream.My most dangerous habit.It feels hopeless,but remember this always:it'll help me discovermy rightful place.  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2830474/ I could love the Devilamong butterflies & faeries,until I realizedit's a full-time job.It's a lonely life.Simple, so simple.Longing that never leavesat the center of poetry.The sun is in the way.Are we on theother side of the world?From sunshine into shadow. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2807754/ Small cloud...you will be found real soon.Beyond small white flowers.Into the mist of the mountains.Sounds of insectsout of earshot.The faith in miracleson the kindness of strangers.A gift from the goddess.You will be found real soonSmall cloud... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2807753/ I hear rain on the roof tonight.Do I weep or do I pray?White noise bothers me--silence that sings.It can transform thingswhich hide inside my head.Eager to leavethe burden of things,but it doesn't mean I love you less.Strange happenings whentwo hearts collide.With love like this,I hope it sound.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2805747/ The day as it is.The thought of no-thought.Some say this all could end,taking my breath as it goes.There were scars for prooffrom noticing too much.Journals I meant to burn.The many words I meant to say.Let this yearning fill me up.When my mind is stunned,I see what's faded.I labor to tell youmy rea.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2805746/ It was somewhere betweensongs that have no wordshow my father deals with grief.He falls asleep in front of the TV.Occasionally forgets my name.Checks the digital clock causeabsence is louder that a firework.A lavender nightgownon white sheets,they smell like her for days.And me so very here to catch.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2798820/ Bare tree branchesmake me the slightest bit lonely.To linger in love with you,wanting only to be found.On long days, on slow days,we will hold hands on trains.Drift into another lifeWhere kissing is unfamiliar.I braid flowers in my hairwhile flaunting dirty sneakers.Grinning in a grey sweater c.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2798818/ Blue-eyed school girlwith those red-wine lips.A swan songfull of love notes.Someone you havedreamt of kissingduring a late-night movie.A city of random beauty.A bed of autumn.A white blur in the darkness.Details are lost to me,but feelings remain. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2798817/ The loneliness hours are oftenworse than the nightmare itself.All the life in front of me.I'm afraid of what it means.Wake up in an empty houselike forgotten pocket change.I hold my tongue,but there is a war inside.Plenty full of madness.I roll over & hug my knees.The electricity of an.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2795247/ To each we are themassive body of a shipwreck.To find safe harbor.Some of us are born chasing disaster.Some of us are born chasing poetry.The sky is endless greyand I shoved the words together,the words to a poem.We spend all dayfighting the good fight.Rejoice in its small victories.With my first br.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2795246/ We went for a walkon the wooden pier. Napped underneath thebeach umbrellas.I don't think the scenein my head is realcause I can feelthe phantom hurt inside.When the phone rings,such hurt remains.I was watchingparts of me evaporate.Today lasted so long.Seeping like ink.I notice minutes movemorni.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2795245/ The boy who liveddownstairs inhaling chemicalswas equivalent to the timeyou left the popcorn in too long.Thus this memory ismixed into my poetryon a diary page.As the only proof I existed.Normally I just waitfor my turn to talk,instead I'll fill all my pocketswith the long-lasting damage.I don't kno.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2792308/ When you appeared on my doorstep,I was eating cereal with no milk.Surely, I could fit all my worries inside a bathtub.Even when I wished I could.Took all day to stack daydreams all over the carpet.Now there is broken glass everywhere.Days fall into each other.Some nights, I wake up with a black hole.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2792307/ Somewhere down a crowded hallwaywere two halves that didn't fit together.Our jigsaw parts.I know it's past my bedtime,but there is a hummingbird in my chest.Pondering who was supposed to kiss meand it keeps me awake.I have wandered on a cemetery rooftop somewhere.It was a private moment.This is.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2792305/ I am a rough draft(all you are is a blank paper)Dipping my toe into a pool of sadness(a lovely place to play)A glimpse of the wolf in the shadows(a girl with a pen)Mixing their potions(the darkness scares me more)I'll dig through the dirt(I have never been pure)Cry for another chance(the trait of in.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2783292/ All the messages left unopened.Poems about a girl I used to love.The moment I heard her laugh,makes me wish I had stayed.I could see the light in her laugh.At the heart of this,I left no part of her untouched.There is nothing in this worldlike a single wildflower.Like trying to catchlightning in a b.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2783290/ Misery in your eyes,a sky full of sorrow.She is my soul.She sees galaxies.We were just two peoplewho heard the call of the wind.In the moments of hope,we dream enough to be free.I think of you in theearly hours of the morning.So close...but so far away.Your breath and my breath matched.&nb.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2783289/ Little orphans are giventhe bravest songs withmuch more sadness.An entire lifelike a broken chain,imagine how little will remain.Held in a placemeant to be safe.Wishing for a homein the clouds,but time neverkeeps its word...always wide,or waitsor just mute.Let us kiss the soulof a loved one's&n.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2778707/ I slipped out in the night.The night the lake freezes over.It was a shadow that woke me."I won't hurt you."He doesn't want you to fear him.Such a kind of phantomlistening from the edge of a place.He listened for the unspoken,like a kept-secret.Staining the later hours,it came down to desires or.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2778706/ I learned it's okay to be disappointed.Even if a love for medidn't have a home in your heart.It couldn't last beyond lustful moments.You caught me slipping intoa bottle of emotions,then made me cuddle with the pain.It was what made youfeel less dead inside.No more kisses coming at the right tim.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2765475/ So utterly sick ofthis word "love."I am sorrythey kept breakingtheir promises,leaving new scars.I am sorrythey never held youthe way youwanted them to.I am sorryyou stayed blind,chose to ignorewhat was in front of you.I am sorryit will never heal a thing--the love song playingbetween the two of you... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2765474/ People in the snapshots.All dead and goneas we wake and sleep.The sadness felt just right.I bow in gratitude,murmur a blessing forthose who have never returned.Feeling gloomy & incomplete,yet others will live better,knowing death. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2762579/ The late nights of dancing naked,reading poems to poets.They'll never believe its true.I've always had a noisy pen,so I don't destroy this world.Every conversation made ourbodies want to be together.Then it struck me, the inspiration,without looking up from my book--she's happy she's alive.Hands ope.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2762578/ The secret hope we burymakes us brave in beautiful ways.The moment you met me,I exploded into a million fragments.You stole my speech--let it vanish, like smoke exhaled.A keyless prisonof air between our skin.Some things will never leave mewhen the fog rolls in.  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2556718/ I will never forgetthe squeeze of your hand,dirt under the nails.I will hold your name sacred between my teeth,the flavor yourlips left behind.The long stare,stolen seconds...will it stain us?The morning voice you spoke in walkedthrough my shadows,forgetting every nightwe spent apart.Am I .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2556694/ Headstones,carved & fading.Guarding forbidden places.Sleepysouled ghost,expire quietly,silent deaths.Setting another heartfreeby now.Death is the last hole.  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2556683/ We row out into the dark,to the edge of a clear brook.Silence makes waves when dream spoke.We both track the stars.We speak lost to sense.We are two lovebirds calm.We are peace in a love nest.  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2556667/ After many jumbled days & nights,the man with the tie knewhe would never be gettingto the face of that girl.A scarf loose around his neckand a brain filled withflawless poems to share.Endlessly dreaming that she wouldtake him, the poet, as her spouse.Awed by this sudden & strange life,the ma.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2484139/ No--I am doing no harm;though after I heard you were goneI began writing in a notebook--writing about all of them.This time aroundI want to leave it be.But it is also my birthdayand cannot be kindenough to forgive.Each one of themleft you to die herein front of everyone.In plain sight ofevery neighb.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2484133/ I act like I'm okay,but walked in circles for days.Pausing here & there,trying not to dream.Oh, I am getting goodat being blank--mindless in themiddle of time.It was lightly rainingalong the roughpavements of the city.It's tough to say howI felt about all the faces.People on their way to work,ke.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2484127/ I enjoyed a cigarette in the dark,watching the puffsof white smokelike thought balloons.I watched thenighttime fromthe wooden dockas the moon rollsacross the sky.I find myself wishing.I have so many of themand often lose track.Hoping to shrinkthis wide world downto an islandwithout bridges.&nbs.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2484124/ Does anyone remember that wish I made so long ago? I have not forgotten, so don’t get your hopes up. This day, I stood atop a building ledge. Gazing down at the horizon beyond, then down towards the busy street down below. My mind replaying the things he--my supposed love--spoke to me: .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2481861/ To have the perfect kiss, be held by that special someone and feel a soft, evening mist around you. I had always desired to be kissed in the rain. I was in Mr. Hart’s class for 4th grade. He was s pretty laid back guy and while he taught the lesson, he would sneak in certain answers to our.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2481852/ Love--it becomes you.It makes you ache.It makes you feel weak.I don't knowwhat mattered more--the key to my heartor until we meet again.Leaves have been shedby the trees, butin their decaying,I won't dare mislead youon our search for Spring.A place of knowing. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2467872/ The way hedisappeared so quickly.Come back to me...stranger wholured me here.I shared half my soul.What a beautiful,beautiful lie it was.Envy ate me up.It never felt the same.The beginning feeling of shame.Everything felt contaminated,but at least I wasn't the only one to have beenabandoned by .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2467870/ Hazy memories between the world of the living and the dead."Let's share a meal, you & I".One last embrace,one last kiss.I wondered whatoblivion was like."Is this not what you wanted?"My shoes are lostwith the remains of the dead.  http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmSvets13/2467869/