January 2010
1 post
Nike friend invitation
erikholmbergwants to add you as a friend on Nike.How do you do this?Follow the link below so they can confirm you as their friend. Then you’ll be linked!http://nikerunning.nike.com/nikeos/p/nikeplus/en_US/plus/profile?page=register&continueURL=profile%3Fpage%3Dnotifications&cp=USPL_EM_auto_friendreq&refId=dfd3454d-7952-4565-844a-a98b6615275cWhy be their friend? You can keep up...
October 2009
1 post
It's Not So Absurd
Tell me why the autumn air Tries to pin me down Get in my bones And make me As cold as it Doesn’t it know That I’ve got a love She burns deep from my marrow You can’t stop that fire Once it’s lit Better learn quick The way she warms me Is a secret That’s never been told With spoken words Her arms wrap me Like they were made to do so One made for another Now when I think of it It’s not so absurd
September 2009
2 posts
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Catching
breath after moments looks from eyes feelings on you now I know it’s true meaning fall if you may fall if you might fall your hardest I say! the catch is well underway leaning forward after anticipation backward from embrace into on kiss now there’s no stopping this cleaning past from the mind past from passing past is so behind break the button labeled rewind arms open for the catch the most...
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Just Be
My success defined As heartbeat fast or slow Lower my ear to your chest It’s not the only way to know Exquisite opposing forces Thinnest wire on balanced knee Hold on neither loose nor tight The compass pointing to “just be” Tear drops and a nervous swell Which one is seen on the outside Little mental natural disasters Can be survived when we are beside Just let me be Just be In the presence of...
August 2009
4 posts
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The First Sight Ever Seen
This evening Playing the part of past Will be a lake Depthless and vast Calm and dark The surface, glassy smooth Ripples only form If you step back in and move I sit alone Gently on dewy hillside A view of it all Spot cleared for my equal beside In the role of future The up and coming brilliant sky Infinitely wide And twice as big measured high One can’t predict How this play will unfold When...
The Beautiful Struggle
binds, bars, and breaks become bows, bridges, and bandages making me think i can handle this pain is placed neatly on shelves of a safe with no combination in the back of the basement close the door for forever plus more we take the stairs to an escalator or two then the elevator up a few floors above heaven what a view air so crisp it’s like it’s brand new and now we are falling, in lieu of a...
4 tags
The Lighthouse
You are so weary Rowing for what seems like years In your little wooden boat with its two wooden oars So many storms and rough seas encountered Your bow raises up and pierces through Beating sun and chilling moon You row and row with an iron will A breath and a dream inside you You reach a point of tire and yank back on the oars once more Slicing through liquid Blood pumps through your strong...
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There's No Place
i’ll give you some hours of my days to shorten the time until I see you again to lengthen your time with loved ones go back gently to the place you come from there’s no place like home remember gently the place we come from there’s no place like the place where love is born your laughter is the soundtrack to a movie about happiness and i am auditioning for the lead role the only time without stage...
February 2009
1 post
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always...”
– Frank Tibolt
November 2008
2 posts
The Town of Us
Over my heart your love rests like a badge, a proud officer serving and protecting the town of Us
Incorporated in the year of eight and two thousand, we build for a future uncertain
The uneven girders jab and jut high into the sky, the physical manifestation of our emotional blueprints
It is unknown the depths to which we will grow, furthermore, what it will take to survive
This singular fact...
This is Autumn and You Will Fall
The trees assume a melancholic stance, staring to the ground at their lost leaves like the new kid in school between class bells.
Darkness falls early and slow, the sleepy eyes of a baby that I can’t help but wonder who the mother is.
This is Autumn and no matter the hold you have on your emotional bearings, it’s tough enough to tilt you on that equilibrium.
This is Autumn and you...
September 2008
2 posts
In the whirlwind of list checking off
You suddenly find yourself more concerned with how you feel
Check boxes turn to moments
A smile and a comment that melted your heart
Made your insides shake and warm
A grade school chemistry experiment
I swallowed the baking soda volcano
The teacher gave me a detention
What did she know
This shit isn’t on the periodic table
In our late night conversations
She breaks me down and rebuilds me
Using her beautiful insides as a blueprint
She leaves footsteps in the wet cement
So she remembers… so they know
I stand so tall
I am her masterpiece
Just a canvas before, for playful ones
A master’s touch with unknown strokes
She knows what she’s doing
Sit and watch as I take shape
I’ll never...
July 2008
1 post
June 2008
7 posts
Wrap Me Up
Fresh brushed teeth and Coca Cola Cracked still cute flip flop feet Scratchy voice sayin’ hey there boy In the mornin’ you’re too sweet
Wrap me in your tanned arms Just wrap me up Please wrap me up Just wrap me up
Your pretty doe legs Knocked kneed with boundless energy Pouty hangin’ bottom lip That kiss could be the end of me
Wrap me in your satin skin Just wrap me up...
Uninvited, Not Unwanted
There are times in your life when someone comes into your life like a uninvited house guest.
They ring your doorbell and before you can even get the door open fully they are sitting on your couch, propping their feet up on your table with their shoes still on.
Before you can decide what emotion to wrap yourself in, anger is probably at the top of the list, they smile at you with this look in...
May 2008
3 posts
“You got a good start in a bad direction back there.”
– The cop to Jim in Rebel Without a Cause
These Itchy Fingers
Will soon produce words that scratch.