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Atticus presents a daily poetry reading of all his poems you know and love, and some you have yet to discover.
This is a moment to pause. A space for self-reflection. A chance for you to rediscover the poetry in life. We hope it’s going to feel really good — like naked on cashmere.
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All of the light
all of the trees
all of time
all spinning throughout the darkened sky
as if
the whole world
was created
just to hold her—
asleep on the couch
in the morning sun.
xx Atticus
“The Rain” by Kayil York
On days like this I feel as heavy as the rain.
I feel like I'm falling from the sky and crashing
hard on the ground.
Sometimes it takes the heavy days to cleanse us
so we can feel what it’s like to release and be
light again.
Follow Kayil York @rose_thorns1921
xx Atticus
The sunset seeped off the Seine
dripping down our shoulders and fingers
in the oranges of the Musée d’Orsay
cigarette smoke danced in the scattering light
as if in symphony
with the orchestra of some far-off conductor
to fall and rise and fall at once—
the light lilting to our laughs
splitting into a thousand pieces
and we were caught in the center of it
hung among the stars
suspended in the disco ball of space.
xx Atticus
“New Life" by Prince Neptune
let me tell you about freedom
it cowers and shivers
as young women dance for you
suddenly
amidst a kaleidoscope of salutations
your eyes see the angel
with nothing but the senses to guide you
new life becomes as inevitable
as the milky coming of dawn
the stone tower arises
erect in her soft summer sky
warm and wet with rain
and as your thousand spirits soar
life explodes like roman candles across the night
and she welcomes you
into the iron gates
of eternity
to be born again
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xx Atticus
Hello, and welcome to another week of Naked on Cashmere. This week, Atticus explores the theme of LIGHT and invites you to take a moment each day to reflect on what this means to you. xx
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Today, we’re starting off with “If I’d Met Her In A Cave.”
If I'd met her in a cave
in the dark
where no light ever lived
she would still be the brightest thing I'd ever seen
for it always was the way she was
never the way she looked
that made her so beautiful to me
and beautiful she was
though I never let it blind me
for it was only when I closed my eyes
and stood there in that darkest cave
that she truly blinded me
with beauty.
Other Poems Read Today:
xx Atticus
She stood there
bathing in the grand forests of his love
with only the quiet rustle
of the treetops against the sky
to remind her she was real at all.
xx Atticus
"He Asks Me” by Najwa Zebian
He asks me:
“What do you want from me?”
I stare at him in silence
With tears fighting to stay
buried inside my eyes,
with thoughts swirling in my mind
like a hurricane.
“What do you want from me?” he asks
over and over.
I am confused because
I know and
I don’t know.
You were the one
who knocked on my door.
You were the one
who wouldn’t allow me to close my door.
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xx Atticus
I like you
just the way you are—
in my baggy shirts
in my tangled sheets
eating popcorn in my bed
quietly
so I don’t hear you.
xx Atticus
“In My Solitude” by Christopher Poindexter
in my solitude i hear
secrets about me
god only tells to
the flowers.
his voice whimpering
from stars to
dust,
from gates of
gold
to soil.
he says;
“you are a collection
of all the people
you have ever loved.”
Follow Christopher Poindexter @christopherpoindexter
xx Atticus
I feel in every girl
there lives
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and dance in grassy fields
until the end of the world—
and when that girl grows up,
that pixie hides,
but she’s always there,
peeking out behind old eyes
and reading glasses,
waiting
to one day dance again.
xx Atticus
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