http://slow.writerscafe.org/delightedelirium The original writings of author Emma-Leigh Ivy Cox en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775258274 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 This is a poem I wrote in freshman year of high school after losing my first love. I personified myself as a raincloud. I hope you all enjoy. Criticisms are welcome, but please be kind/constructive http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/delightedelirium/1509557/ My pillowsecho soft and lingering memoriesfaintly entangled in your scent.You are woven into my linens.Left as a reminder of time, in Heaven spent.From this waking slumbernever shall I shake.Intoxicating inhalationsof our first impressions,shy confessions,laughs and tousled inh.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/delightedelirium/1507867/ He dances around me in circles that crowd me, moving inward, like the walls. Butterflies yearning to burst outward, no one to answer their silent calls. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/delightedelirium/1507817/ Tangled up in my hair, I leapt forward to an abrupt kiss, nothing amiss. No sign in the world around meof anything left to confound me. I'm surely certain I could die happyLike this. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/delightedelirium/1507814/ Butterflies are in my eyes. They dance around my head in hovering halos &make it hard to disguisemy nerves, while words spill out, tripping over one anotherin my seldom uttered stutters. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/delightedelirium/1507808/