poetry critical

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Random Poem:

I Call Her Euphony
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I saw her three times daily.
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It shook my bones
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at every sight.
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Imagine a cosmos of stars.
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Imagine one thousand pebbles, quartz and tiger-eye, spilt across the water, floating, ten percent above, like an iceberg.
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Imagine an entire novel without punctuation. She had no stops. No pauses. She didn't take breaks.
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The mauve glow of her lingers in the room
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long after she's left.
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The damp sweet scent of her floats into the room
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long before she arrives.
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I saw her three times daily,
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not because I followed her,
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but because we were similar.
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Because we were neurotic.
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Because words were our only friends.
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The stiff spines, the soft pages,
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they carressed her as softly as she carressed them.
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She held everything with the kind of delicacy you'd lend to holding a premature baby. Unsure, loving, careful. She held everything as though it might break in her hands.
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She held my heart that way.
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