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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Living

Everyday brings
a new death
in three words
give or take
Some days I drown
as if life were a flood
and I wore shackles
Some days bring suffocation
weights aimed to press
my chest into itself
And as long as
I am dying
I find it hard
to live

(2013)

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Bad Taste

Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
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Dark

I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
Drown

I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love
Silence

I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
Poets

All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
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Rebirth

I see no joyous rebirth in spring for autumn will bring another death I see no joyous rebirth
Nature

There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
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Asleep

I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
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Uphill

Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
Admire #1

I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
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Human/Nature

If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains
Healing

I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
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Canvas

I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back
Nothing

I say hello and you say nothing You may hear me you may even think of a response
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Passion

Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
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