Poem Quotes

For me,you are fresh waterthat falls from treeswhen it has stopped raining. For me, you are cinnamon that lingers on the tongue and givesbitter wordssweetening.For me, you are the scent of violins and visionof valleys smiling.And still,for me, your loveliness never ends.It traverses the worldand finds its way back to me.Only me.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world’s perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph

~ Munia Khan

I have loved this world in ways it could never love me back.

~ Anjum Choudhary

I fought for you, I fought for usI fought for the memories and the laughter that came upon us,Now here we are, we have become unknown people to each other,Worlds apart in an instant, for what once was is now goneSo tell me what your secret is to letting go like you did.

~ Tanzy Sayadi

I think can sit here for hours,Arguing with the world as to why I can't give up,Tell everyone around me what a blessing you are,Laugh at all the times that you've brought sun into my life,I can tell everyone how passionate you are and how much you bring into this world,But right now I'm sitting here for hours,Trying to keep myself together because I'm trying to figure out how to tell the world that the man I love,Is the reason why I'm so broken.

~ Tanzy Sayadi

Why are you so scared and creeping around,taking photographs all over town,pictures in the dark that live in the light,the world is my playground too and I’ll do what I like.

~ Archive

all theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believe but believe is agraveyard. we have narrowed it down tothe butcherknife and themockingbird wish usluck.

~ Charles Bukowski

You’ve always been a stormYour lightning mouthElectrifies my heart

~ Holly Ducarte

She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak, are all within the palm of her hand

~ Holly Ducarte

Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sundays.

~ B. Devine

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

~ Kamand Kojouri

All this waiting.Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the bill. Waiting at the airport for an old friend.Waiting to depart. Then, there’s the big waiting: waiting to grow up. Waiting for love. Waiting to show youryour parents that when you have kids you’ll be different. Waiting to retire. Waiting for death. Why do we think waitingis the antithesis of lifewhen it is almostall of it?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.

~ Kamand Kojouri

No poem of mine will, be as beautiful as the one; I create on your lips.

~ Seekerohan

Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.

~ Cristen Rodgers

The universe on your skin is emptyfrom all the silence on your tongue.Forgive yourself. Let your body healfrom all the wounds you did not inflicton yourself. Drop the sword you carryon your shoulder for self-defense.Lower the armor you hold high upfor protection. Those who harmed youare not going to come back. Those whohave left never intended to return.

~ Akif Kichloo

The tragedy of love is in its ending, the blessing—everything else. No love ever deserves to end.

~ Akif Kichloo

Love is a snowflake for no two are ever the same.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I see that you are heartlessly clever.For you know how to Love,but not Forever. You still return to me in flashes,so strong it clouds my Mind.The fire has turned to ashes,and yet, you’re not behind.

~ Meraaqi

I finally wentwhere everyone goesand I realizedI wasnevermissingout.

~ Meraaqi

Tell me where the swans go in the winterI need to know if the mute ones can sing.Tell me why stars fall from the skyI need to know if it is luck they bring.Tell me why feathers land near youI need to know if you've injured your wing.Now, tell me where you end, my angelFor I no longer know where I begin.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Your eyes are like heavy rain falling from pregnant clouds. With one glance, you washed awaythe poems I chalked on the groundand drowned all my beliefs.Now, I only scribble your name and believe in your truth. I know nothing but you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Life is the result of the choice we make.Imagine what it could beif only we were not afraid.

~ Frederick Espiritu

If you wish to know the truth of who you are,follow the voice that calls you home.Go there.For where our love is,there we will be.

~ Frederick Espiritu

Tear me apart for your view.Open the window of my wounds.To catch one glimpse of youis worth a thousand cures.

~ Frederick Espiritu

If breath is as close as I can get,tomorrow, I’ll become the windjust to be with you again.

~ Frederick Espiritu

Where there is love, there is no need.Where there is need, there is suffering.

~ Frederick Espiritu

When I'm with you,I feel exposed.Naked. When I'm naked with you, I feel clothed.Sheltered.

~ Kamand Kojouri

You know how sometimes you meet someone and you feel like you've known them your whole life?Well, I feel like I've loved you my whole life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We all live but a hundred years. When I am with you, I live it in a matter of days.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Do the lovers know that when they whisper these poems they are commemorating our love?Do they ever think of you and meor only of themselves?Do they know that I once found a strand of your hairand wore it around my necklike a necklace?That I kiss your handsmore than I kiss your lips?Do they realise that our love and their love are drops in the universe’s ocean of loveand that without any of these drops, the ocean would be less?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Can we share my eyes so you can see what I see?Can we share my ears so you can hear what I hear?Can you perch on my shouldersso you can go where I go?Always in my heart, I don’t experience anything separate from you.This shared wonderment becomes doubled.This shared love becomes infinite.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I’ve learned a hundred secrets,a thousand mysteriesand a million more.But of all the lessons I learned,the greatest is love.

~ Frederick Espiritu

Come back to me.Where have you gone?And why so long?I miss the star below your lip,the constellation on your chest.I miss your ways,how you net butter-flying words and release themfor others to enjoy.I miss your tenderness,the sweetness of your breathand the song of your voice.I miss howyou worship me.Come back to me once more.Why did you go?And whatever for?The heavens plotted against us.The clouds came andpissed on our lives.The smell of charged particlesstill lingers in the air.What will become of you and I?Come back to us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Knowing you, I understood myself.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Come to me.Why must you ruin this moment?You are burdened with thought.Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future.You are burdened with your self.Cast these aside by laughing at yourself.And love,for what more is there than to love me?Take me nowand let it be heaven for us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Sadness is an invitation to God.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Lovers dream of one more embrace.One more kiss.One act of love, no matter how small.For in loving, lover and belovedemptied themselves.Now, they look for their oasislike men engulfed in flames.Even filled to the brim, they will never satiate. For they continue to leak, thesecracked vessels.How else did love seep through?

~ Kamand Kojouri

I left the bankbecause they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems.So I went to the store,but they didn’t acceptmy currency of words.So I boxed all my storiesand took them to charity.But they refused my donation and asked me to give blood instead.I opened the notebooks and made them look, 'What do you think I wrote these in?

~ Kamand Kojouri