notes: whoooo wants some poetry to hold them over until I post again on Valentine's Day?

*crickets*

well, I'm giving you some anyway, so there. I won't even tell if you pass one of these off as yours and give it to your intended Valentine. :I you better message me and let me know if it worked.

also, I have no idea if it's Ty Lee or Azula speaking in these poems, or if they change. I like to think they work with either girl at different times.

poetry i – ask her if she wants to stay awhile

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and whatever pain may come
(pseudo-terzanelle on Distance)

The electrical edges of your smile
seep into the cracks of my heart; know this:
It may not happen for a long, long while.

Down through my veins and arteries, the twists
and folds and turns of each muscle layer
(Like the sheets on your bed, this

the only thing I know, your favor
the only thing I desire.) The chains
of molecules running through each layer

of tissue become me. I plod on dumbly, maimed
by you; (heart and soul) - in thought and in word,
in what I have done and what I have failed to do. (Chains

of broken syllables splash across your tongue,
and mine moves in places secret and unspoken.)
I surrender - the victory yours, the battle won;

(I am) Overcome, my will (broken)
The electrical edges of your smile
say the things best left unspoken:
It may not happen for a long, long while.

* this is more of a bastard child between a sestina and a terzanelle.

...

the long walk
(pseudo-terzanelle on Time)

Give me your word, my darling, and I'll endeavor-
I'll sing your body electric, love you down all the days
Love me and I'll give you forever, forever, forever

You'll rise to my touch, burn as my fingers have their way
my lips at your throat with your moans in my mouth
I'll sing your body electric, love you down all the days

I'll love you better than breath, and should you ever doubt
all you'll have to do is reach for me, instantly you'll find
my lips at your throat with your moans in my mouth

All I am wrapped around you, body and soul thus entwined
should you ever forget, should distance ever be too great
all you'll have to do is reach for me, instantly you'll find

that I lie near you, with you, in you, and quietly wait
for the perfect moment to kiss you and swear to you this:
should you ever forget, should distance ever be too great

Remember my arms around you and that I only exist
to sing your body electric, love you down all the days;
for the perfect moment to kiss you and swear to you this:
Love me and I'll give you forever, forever, forever.

* screwed the rhyme scheme of this one up. oh well!

...

anything goes in this cosmic dare
anything goes, so take care
(terzanelle on Addiction)

She spoke in a voice that disrupted the sky
and I was disturbed, damned - I let my heart fall;
the end of my world breaking so bright in your eyes.

A mere eternity of seconds and she had me in thrall,
in chains, in her: her lightning-touch so soft and new
and I was disturbed, damned - I let my heart fall

past the ends of reality the devil dare not pursue;
into the weight of life in her kiss. I found forever
in chains; her lightning-touch so soft and new

and the electric arc of her throat, her back: I've never
fallen so far so fast - my heart and soul blindly fly
into the weight of life in her kiss. I found forever.

She burned bone-cold and hurt so good I couldn't deny
and she said, Hold on Lover, what do you see?
Fallen so far so fast - my heart and soul blindly fly

when I touch and I touch her and she melts into me
She spoke in a voice that disrupted the sky
and she said, Hold on Lover, what do you see?
The end of my world breaking so bright in your eyes.

* first line whored from Rob Pattinson's "Let Me Sign."
* I think this is the first terzanelle that's true to the original rhyme scheme. HALLELUJAH