There are days when you’re just too sweet
There are nights when you’re just so sour
Still I savor your taste when between my teeth
Thank heavens for grapes!
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Bohemian Nights
By Sirishty Thakur & Benjamin Grossman
What is love?
I venture for the search,
Hovering above the restrictions,
Masquerading feelings,
Packing the streets and theaters.
In the shadows of the city lights,
The subtle touch of elation,
Tempered by the night’s venom.
A parade of tamers lurking to fragment dreams,
To seek the hook for their puppet master.
There’s always a cage for joyous affairs,
Some subjugation of our bohemian nights.
But I still reach possessively for the moment, as the pendulum strikes.
Eternity vibrant in your eyes,
Unwavering in my faith that love is untamable.
This poem was a collaboration with Sirishty Thakur. Please, do yourself a favor and check out her amazing poetry and photos on her blog: Thought Loop.
© 2021 Sirishty Thakur & Benjamin Grossman
A Man For All Seasons (In Fashion)
She puts me on in every season
Regardless of time, place, or location
In the rain, the sleet, and the snow
Apparently I’m some sturdy husband material
Inked
I’m infatuated with the speed at which you spill your ink
Imagine all the ways you guide your pen over a page
Fantasize about how you dot your i’s and cross your t’s
And now I can’t stop thinking of collaborating
An Empty Apartment
Came home and the windows were smashed
The place empty, all my belongings taken
And then you walked in next
And I remembered:
I still had everything
Lost in Translation
I can’t translate you into a poem
Your radiance is dulled in words
The Last Poem
Every night I lie in bed
Thinking of my last poem
It still has no words
But I know it’s about you.
Totem
My spiritual animal
Must be the hawk
Every time I leave your hand
I come right back
HER AIRNESS
on the days i breathe her in
i never want to breathe out
(Subtlety) I Think
SHE LOVES ME MOST
WHEN I’M WEARING
THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES
Benjamin Grossman 