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How I Still Love You

The Smile Which Eludes @

He Says To Me, I Think Too Much (and hence dream too much as well)

When You Learn Who You Really Are And What Is...

Anti-Poem Number Three 8/2/2022 Or, A Poem Your Proper Mother Wouldn't Write



Breathing On My Own

A Girl Is More Than a Beautiful Box re-edited 10:15pm PST 1/31/22

I LOVE YOU ALWAYS ANYWAY AND INSTEAD

Talk To Me In The Dark 7/8/2022

ANOTHER REFRIGERATOR POEM 7/2/2022

What Is The Price For Your Touch

A NOT-S0-SILLY ANTI-POETRY DITTY

In And In Between The Silence 6/21/2022

Not Alone In the Darkness (As I Once Thought I Was)

Miss Tilt-a-World@

Each One Of Them Is Accounted For (And Matters)

Like Books Full Of Stories Stacked Behind Her

Call It Grace (another Anti-poem)

Lights Out

Saudade: the feeling of wanting to be near someone who is far and distant

That No One But I Will Know (anti-poetry)

To Be In The Way

For My Brother T. J. ( 7/15/2022)

That Once Respite Cave

Dr. Frankenstein's Surprise (Re-Galvanized)

A Stranger In a Strange And Angry Land.

Crimson Lake (From 2008, flashing forward to 2022/April 19)

Words Being Yours...Until The Grave 4/23/2022

The Fire Once Within Goes Cold From Lack

Summer Storms / Electric Monsters

Your Candle Burning In the Wind

On Sunny Days , As I Pose For The Skies 3/17/2022

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I  LOVE  YOU  ALWAYS   ANYWAY  AND  INSTEAD


I love you always
anyway
and instead
Even when you don't match the perfection of the version
or the vision in my head

I'd take you most anyway you came
without you
my world couldn't be the same

If there were essential ingredients
you'd be the salt and sugar for me

I love you always
anyway
and instead
also in between

You may not match the perfection of the version
or the vision that I dream
I'll take you as you come
the person you bring to me

I'll love you always
anyway
and instead
maybe you really are
that version and the vision in my head.


LEGAL COPYRIGHT for this poem which came full-formed in my head this morning.
5:32am PST, 3/30/2022. time and date stamped for 'posterity.' ha ha ha.
and also for this LEGALLY COPYRIGHTED POET MELISSA A. HOWELLS
AND FINALLY FOR THIS LEGALLY REGISTERED AND COPY-WRITTEN SITE TITLE
MELOO STRAIGHT FROM HER TIL LT-A-WORLD

ITS TRUE YOU CAN MAKE LEMONADE FROM LEMONS--
IF ANYONE TELLS YOU, YOU'RE A LEMON, BECOME LEMONADE,
SURPRISE YOURSELF PLEASINGLY AND PLEASANTLY





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