#ben north

[norapoetry]

I Love You

Yet I love what created you even more,

the earth, air, sun and water

for without these essentials

you would still be like a seed

only possessing the ability to grow.

Would it not be madness

to love you and not love the others

just as much or maybe even more?

And when I see you

I see more than just your lovely face.

I feel I see time moving

a small seed growing roots in the dirt

leaves growing, petals blossoming

sun shining, rain falling.

I see all these,

I see you.

[norapoetry]

Rosebush

If we could, for a moment,

forget all the sounds and colors,

all thoughts and desires

and experience then the touch of fingers.

softness would begin the senses.

Remember what it felt like,

true love’s first kiss, or handhold?

Much like hugging a rosebush,

with beautiful smells but don’t move too quick,

it’ll rip you up.

If we could, for a moment,

talk about the time it happened,

when she pressed your hand to the griddle

and it came off burned and red.

Suppose the softness is an idea,

and one that can’t be grasped or contained,

intermixed with pain, contingent on it in fact.

Suppose that’s just the way it is,

for some reason.

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Sam Taylor for We Are Hubris.

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Charlotte De Carle wearing We Are Hubris. Photography by me.

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Charlotte De Carle wearing Hubris.

Shot by me.

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Charlotte De Carle wearing Hubris. Photography by me.

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Tino Amour for the We Are Hubris Lookbook shot by me.

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Tino Amour for the We Are Hubris LookBook shot by me.