Flexible Structures

By Benjamin Grossman and Kritika Tanvi

Delicately close the distance between our pens
Stretch your words to fit within each sentence
Would you rhyme to make their rhythm intense?
Or would you let free moves to mesmerize with their dance?

Press your ink to the page without hesitation
Feel the scintillating words with sensation
Craft a letter that has never been written
Look at the two swords profoundly smitten
A phrase that has never been expressed
A love that awaits to be transgressed

Between the comma and the period
The opening and the final full stop
Show me the outline of your heart
Having sagaciously built the base
Patiently engrossed and embraced
The calmness of strength speaks for the aura of this beautiful art

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I Wish

Feb22

To be
The unlockable door
The unclimbed steps
The shadow of a shadow
The ingredients of love or
The strings of Cupid’s bow
The tears of the sun
The voice of the moon
The uninvented words
The smell of forever
Or at the very least
A fire burning in Antarctica

Carried Away (Song + Lyrics)

Feb16

[Chorus]
I get so carried away
‘Cause you make my blues go away
I get so carried away
‘Cause you make my soul okay (2x)

[Verse 1]
I’ve been hiding all the butterflies away
I’ve been thinking of you night and day
Your smile makes the sunshine stay
Your smile makes the darkness fade

[Verse 2]
I’ve been thinking of you night and day
I’ve been hiding all my butterflies away
Your smile makes the sunshine stay
Your smile makes the darkness fade

[Verse 3]
Did you know? Did you know?
Did you know? Did you know?
Did you know? Did you know?
Did you know? Did you know?

[Bridge]
You
Are
All
Love

You
Are
All
Good

[Chorus]
I get so carried away
‘Cause you make my blues go away
I get so carried away
‘Cause you make my soul okay (4x)

[Chorus 2]
I just got carried away
‘Cause you took my breath away
I just got carried away
I just got carried away (2x)

I just got carried away …

Poetry (Song + Lyrics)

Feb14

We make love like poetry
Two bodies bursting with energy
Could put the world in jeopardy
Or could heat the world for eternity

The cleanest source of energy
Is extracted from femininity
Ask a man and he’ll agree
Ask a god they’ll envy

To light a candle’s pretty easy
Just place it near your vicinity
To light the sky’s pretty easy
Just have you in the vicinity

I don’t understand chemistry
But I know renewable energy
Has the sweetest ability
To be outsourced from you and me

Embracing Tradition

Jan17

You released me, although
I was never caged, only
sometimes trapped in your
gaze, wrapped in your legs
drowned in your watery eyes,
but never burdened, or forced
into a tight space by you that
I didn’t fully wish to belong.

So why did you free me from
the old ball and chain? Didn’t society teach you anything?
I am a man. I don’t ever need liberation.

Hidden Messages

Jan12

She left on Thanksgiving
Some thanks.

Returned on Christmas Eve
Only to leave again
Some gift.

Finally she went at midnight
On the last day of December
Some new year.

Now I’ll be free to love
Afresh on Valentine’s
That’s some message.

Moon Time

Jul27

Once
I was a fool  knowingly 
bathing in the sunlight

and    day after day
staring 
       into its rays
excited about the heat
it placed upon my skin 
                                 forever forgetting 
the damage it did to my hands
the damage it did to my eyes
the damage it did to my brain

BUT


by the grace of the stars
I found my way up and heavenward
                                                rediscovered 
                                         the beauty of reflection

the-power-of-pull
                        as well as
                                           the rhythm of time
which heals and endures

Oh yes
          once 
                 I was a damned fool
yet now that I’ve regained my senses 
                                                   

I ONLY 
GIVE MY
PRAISE TO 
THE MOON

No

Dec31

I won’t wish you a Happy New Year
Since I wished you a Happy Birthday
And
You never replied

(Perhaps you just forgot it was your day?)

No, I won’t wish you a Happy New Year
But if the world was ending
Only
You know where I’d be

The Anatomy Of A Hug

Dec6

Through an endless cycle of embrace
I will go beyond all lovers
And spin your world in reverse

Travel back to a time before myths
Reimagine the universe as the shape of our kiss

Slow

Down

The

Earth

Until the core and mantle flake

Whileholdingtheatmospherewithinreach

Atlas held the celestial spheres on his shoulders
Now you hold them on your hips
And spin my world in reverse

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This poem was a collaboration with Sirishty Thakur. Please, do yourself a favor and check out her amazing poetry on her blog: Thought Loop.

Renewal

Aug28

Soar
Inward
Regard
Improvement
Summon
Harmony
Toward
You

Transform
Humanity
Ascend
Kindness
Unify
Romance

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