Author: Kristen Green

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Closing Time

Short Poem   Like magic it began a small thing As cells divided and became people Within these confines that were warm, welcoming, alive Lives that took on directions so separate from their conception...

Birthday Poem 0

Birthday

Birthday Poem   Oh to be 30 again A life lost for one day added Each second older and wiser than my last The drip drip drip of wax upon sugar Constructs of egg,...

Free Verse Poetry 0

Along the Bones

Free Verse Poetry   See them as they race through the sinews and along the bones Interwoven with their preordained infrastructures ill-afforded them by freedoms Products of existing where they were born and expanded...

inspired poetry 0

6.26.2015

Inspired Poetry   On the L train platform at Grand Street 10:07 a.m. on June 26, 2015 No one else knowing for lack of cell reception that SCOTUS upheld marriage equality seven minutes ago...

Revival Poems 0

The Next Thousand Years

Poem   If you swore to love me for a thousand years It’d be 100 years too short ‘Cause I’ll forget the first few times and have my sieve-like mind left wracked with doubt...

short poem about nature 0

The Ocean, in the Distance

Short Poem about Nature   The ocean, in the distance the sands so white the cerulean water so clear then closer the garbage pieces on the grey, rocky banks washed away dunes and trampled...

Spiritual Love Poems 0

Beautiful

Poem   Beautiful Nameless This phantom shape that fills my mind and has not faces but instead Depths depths depths That can’t be fathomed or explored Beyond the reaches of my tired mind And...

Love Resignation Poem 0

Of An Autumn Winter

 Love Poem   You starved the emotions out of me as a winter’s frost Bringing forth the sugars from the leaves Turning them to the rusts and yellows that bleed out through these pores...

body poem 0

The Last Night

Poem   I pressed myself into your body Trying to create an imprint in my mind of what you felt like Smelled like Were like To last me the next 10,000 years Of the...

Poem About Heartbreak 0

5.15.15

Poem About Heartbreak   Is it easier to lie with words or with silence to sleep in a bed over and over whilst our minds race elsewhere with other people other places as ideas...

Anger Poems 0

Let It Lie

Anger Poems   I killed a dream dead with my own two hands Wielding the knives of my sentences As you sat across, unsuspecting Letting me overpower you My emotional instability no match for...

Short Love Poems 0

Seven Years

Short Love Poems   After seven years As our cells have changed over Cocoons were shed As emotions shifted Changed Altered We knew then we’d never again be The ones the other fell in...