The Department of Structured Calm

Written by Christina Rossetti

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Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.

Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet;
Where thirsting longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
My very life again tho’ cold in death:
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago.

From Poetry Foundation

Written by aurorablackpelt

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To get lost for a while.
Letting my skin dissolve under
the breath of night.
Breathe me in, Stars.
Let the wind be my lover,
Learning each secret after waves
Waves
And
Waves
of mystical chanting.
My very soul, escaping me.
Pull me in, Moon, silver lips against
My lips. Hold me,
Rest against my chest,
Nebula, stars,
black holes
Moons
Asteroids
Planets
Constellations:
Have all of me, Night
Take it,
Take it all.
Stardust, sing!
Unravel me.

Written by lifeispoetrytoo

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I say the sky is blue, you say it’s gray,
yet the universe insists we’ve been connected all along.
You ask for proof; I answer with a patient breath……
be consistent, I whisper, and time unfolds.
The cosmos sighs between us, intervening softly:
fix this, you belong together.
I miss you in the quiet between words; you say, show it,
and the stars repeat our names in their ancient glow.

We are yin and yang, living through time,
a tide of bright disparity merging into calm.
You are fire, I am flame-born longing;
when we meet, the world falls silent—only ours,
a single pulse of breath and skin and light.

Feeling each other, we drift toward becoming us,
the imperfect us, choosing each other again and again.
Every day, a new constellation of us to discover,
loving today, and beyond, in a wider, patient dawn.

Written by Sabrina Rose

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The ground beneath her rumbled
So far off in the distance
Things were beginning to shift
Change was coming
She felt the balance alter
She understood
She knew she needed to ground
She felt the ascension
The techtonic plates were shifting
She knew her place in the world
She was to walk it
She was to live Now in it
She tread lightly
And thanked all that was
For all that is
And all that ever will be
For all the beauty
She was grateful
She understood

Written by the.insomniac.in.black

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Alicelike

I've been down the rabbit hole
Far too many times
Mad as a hatter
With my hat as a matter
Speaking in cryptic rhymes
I went small and I went big
To fit through all their doors
You are not what you think you are
Look different from near or far
Until you get off course
Making sense makes no sense
When nonsense is consent
Safety just misleads you
In a land of restraints
So sometimes I take the hike again
Down this damn rabbit hole
To feel a bit more like I used to,
A bit more of my soul