Typewriter Series #11 by Tyler Knott Gregson
Another Typewriter poem. No re-dos. I Love that.
Just because he’s the kind of poet that takes your inner hopeless romantic by the hand, makes them smile and then gives them a high-five and tells them they aren’t alone in this.
(via tylerknott)
Pan
Did you have
a happy childhood?
they asked.
Did?
I asked back.
Funny,
I suppose I
never knew
it had
ended.
How Many Winters?
How appropriate,
I thought to myself,
that our ancestors
measured life
and measured age
and the passing
of time
in the number
of winters
that had been
endured.
Only through
the frost
and the freeze
can we truly
fall in love
with the
warmth.
-Tyler Knott Gregson-
Cinderella
I heard you’d given up on love
Cinderella never say never
time will dry your every tear
broken hearts don’t last foreverSoon enough the sun will shine
when it does I hope you’ll see
I’m no prince, still I’m the one
your lonely heart is safe with meLove can often be a painful game
and that damn fool played his part
I pray you’ll trust me nonetheless
for I will never break your heart
Irony of Loving Me
I could fall in love with you
you just have to make me
you would have to crawl around
in my brain
knock over the furniture
Burst the windows in anger
Leave me a mess
Leave me speechless
Leave me
and I will come running
after you with my heart
in my hands
Love on my sleeves
I could fall in love with you
you would just have to
Love me first
stay
just a while
just enough
to catch our falling breathdon’t look
as i change
just promise
you’ll still listenif i change the tone
of my voice
it is only
to near
the surfaceif i come out
looking worse
then hand me honesty
honestlythere are words
still left unsaid
before the clouds burstand if it pours
you know
you can always, always
stayhere
Shine
We spend so much
time staring
into the darkness
that we forget
that all
that shines
above us
also shines
within
us.
-Tyler Knott Gregson-
Poetry is
more than
shiny words
or phrases,
more than
line breaks,
rhymes, or
s p a c e s.
It breathes
and sings
and hangs
from strings
tied neatly
to
our
secret
places.
I should add
that I
couldn’t possibly
have had difficulty
believing in
Love.
-Tyler Knott Gregson-
Writing drunk
Write drunk,
said Ernest Hemingway,
and edit sober.
Write drunk.
Edit sober.
Write drunk,
drunk on the euphoria of rapidly clicking keys,
and take in the sound—
the sound of plastic, scraping against plastic,
creativity, scraping against will,
want, scraping against need,
hands, scraping their way…
Peach
Isn’t life funny
that some days
you know with confidence
that you
are the peach,
sweet and full of
life
while on others
you suspect
with quiet apprehension
that instead
you
are the bruise
that is so
carefully and
meticulously
eaten around.
-Tyler Knott Gregson-
Crashingly Beautiful: starting a poem
You are alone. Then there’s a knock
On the door. It’s a word. You
Bring it in. Things go
OK for a while. But this word
Has relatives. Soon
They turn up. None of them work.
They sleep on the floor, and they steal
Your tennis shoes.
You started it; you weren’t
Content to leave things alone.
Now…
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am i too broken, to love again
my heart is full, but i won’t open it anymore
it’s a shame, my love must stay locked within
because you walked away from my tear stained skin