Love Poems
Don’t Cry Over Me
Dont cry over me
Don’t cry wolf ‘round me
Don’t cry fire when I’m near
Don’t cry Bloody Mary
She can’t hear
Don’t cry shame upon me
Don’t cry shame upon me
— Julie Loren Webb, 6.25.2024
Transformation
I’m wild carrot
But you make me feel
Like Queen Anne’s lace
— Julie Loren Webb, 6.29.2024
Discouraged In the Rain
You don’t need to tell me
I don’t know when to quit
I’ve been marching two by two
Like a godforsaken ant
Don’t go whistling my name
Into the stars
I’m not your savior’s daughter
I’ll leave you from afar
I’m singing and I’m dancing
Using up my pain
Let me go, I wanna walk
Discouraged in the rain
Discouraged in the rain
You don’t need to sell me
Cotton candy on a stick
I’ve been minding my own
Through neon mirrored sunglasses
Don’t throw petals at my feet
To guide my way
I’m just passing through
Carnivals never stay
I’m singing and I’m dancing
Using up my pain
Let me go, I wanna walk
Discouraged in the rain
Discouraged in the rain
— Julie Loren Webb, 7.6.2024
Fight My Love
When God made me
He made me strong enough
To take a punch
When god made me
Two shoulders and a good head
That knows when to play dead
When God made me
Warned me not to close my eyes
They’ll take you by surprise
God told me the truth
But he never told me
That dying would be
Something I’d rather do
Than trying to fight my love for you
— Julie Loren Webb, 7.07.2024
Tree On the Track
Miss, can you help me
There’s a tree on the track
A tree down on the track
Miss, can you help me
Tell me what road is this
So I can tell them where we’re at
I’m on the phone with 911
Well, I don’t know if it’s an emergency
Don’t know when the next train will come
But someone’s gotta move that tree
Yorklyn, Yorklyn, Yorklyn, Yorklyn
Hello? Did you hear her say that?
On the corner of Yorklyn and Lancaster Pike
And there’s a tree down on the track
What? You don’t know where I’m talking about?
But there’s a train track right over there
Well, no I guess you can’t see it from here
Past the playground square
Past the playground square
Where children play
A tree down on the track
Thank you, Miss, I gotta figure out
How to get back
Gotta get back to the tree down
The tree down on the track
Gotta get back, gotta get back
To the tree down on the track
— Julie Loren Webb, 8.06.2024
Write It Down
Too many times I thought,
“this is too good to forget.
Surely I’ll remember in the morning
when I wake up.”
And just like that, he was gone.
— Julie Loren Webb, 8.11.2024
The Artist
Even her blues were pink
— Julie Loren Webb, 8.28.2024
Petty Theft
If you’re gonna love me
Baby, show me how you feel
Go on and steal my heart
‘Til there ain’t nothing left
If you’re gonna take me with you
Baby, take me for real
‘Cause stealing my heart, Baby
Ain’t no petty theft
No petty theft
It’s a criminal offense
Get you locked up
Locked up by my side
For years and years
And all the rest
Go on and steal for real
‘Til there’s nothing left
Stealing my heart, Baby
Ain’t no petty theft
No petty, petty theft
— Julie Loren Webb, 9.03.2024
Sand Dunes of Love
John loves you
You don’t love him
You love Paul
He don’t love you
It’s so lonely
Left all alone
Lost in the sand dunes
The sand dunes of love
— Julie Loren Webb, 9.15.2024
Souls Collide
I’m so glad that was you
And not someone else
— Julie Loren Webb, 9.22.2024
I Feel You Telling Me
When I’m afraid
When I’m worried
When I’m in pain
When I’m wanting something
I see your face
Drawn over everything
And I feel free
I feel safe again
I feel free to be anything
I feel you telling me
I love you
When you asked me
Can you help me with that
My heart sang an unfamiliar song
Never did I think I’d ever be needed so
When you asked me
What’s next
My heart sang the most beautiful song
Never did I think I’d ever be so strong
When you told me
Don’t be nervous
I want to hear more
It will come when it comes
My heart sang a song so pure and true
I love you
I trust you
I love you
— Julie Loren Webb, 9.22.2024
Still In West Virginia
Still in West Virginia
For another hundreds miles
The road weaves the pain
Right back home again
You pass that welcome sign
For a state you’ve never been
But you’re still in West Virginia
And you’re still in love with him
— Julie Loren Webb, 10.06.2024
The Dark Trees
I can see his smoke
When he drives along
The dark trees
— Julie Loren Webb, 10.06.2024
500 Year Flood
Your love
A 500 year flood
Can’t get enough
I need another one
Those 500 year floods
Happen all the time
But your love
Your eyes
Are all that’s left
In the sky
Baby pour
On me
Baby pour on me
Rain
Don’t go away
— Julie Loren Webb, 10.12.2024
Change Time
Oh I want this song to change time
At least
Change your mind
What else can I do
When there’s nothing I can’t do
I don’t even want to
If it ain’t about you
All the songs are about you
I can’t listen to anything
As long as you are gone
I ain’t got no songs to sing
What else can I do
When there’s nothing I can’t do
I don’t even want to
If it ain’t about you
Can’t have what’s not mine
Can’t make you and me rhyme
He never could, neither could I
Forget about should, I want to cry
Forget about would, I just might die
Oh I want this song to change time
At least
Change your mind
What else can I do
When there’s nothing I can’t do
I don’t even want to
If it ain’t about you
— Julie Loren Webb, 10.15.2024
Whose Feet Do I Kiss
There’s a band of angels at my side
They gave me a horse to ride
One tore out death with his bare hands
One tied my body to an airlift
One gave me food and water
Which one of you sent me here
What time is it, what year
Who is behind all of this
Who sent you
Whose feet do I kiss
Oh God
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.5.2024
If I Met You When
If I met you when I was a dancer
If we met at the club
You’d be my regular customer
Make all my dreams come true
I’d be your Angel
Do anything you want me to
If I met you
When I was a dancer
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.9.2024
To Bathe In Your Love
You made me learn to like a bath
Never did like bathes before
But I never had a bath like that
Redemption of the whore
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.12.2024
All He Left Me
All he left me
Was an empty basket
On the windowsill
A field of deer
And no one to tell
How I’m feeling right now
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.13.2024
Two Forgotten Buttons
Like forgotten buttons in a tin can
In the way back of this here old junk drawer
We wait for our time to come
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.13.2024
Watch Out For Deer
You know I’m home alone most nights
Only three miles from here
Watch out for deer
If you come to me
Under the skylight
No one will know
Heaven and angels sing
If you come to me
Shadows of the trees
Dance over our bodies
Moonlight dances
I’ve belonged to you
For a very long time
You know I’m home alone most nights
Not far from here
Watch out for deer
If you come to me
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.14.2024
Our Town
We met there
We married there
We died there
We were buried there
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.15.2024
Woe Is My Name
He worked all night
So I could go
But I couldn’t go
And so he never came
Woe is me
And woe is my name
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.18.2024
Our Love
Honey
Never
Spoils
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.20.2024
Hold Me
When you hold me
Or is that the rain
The rain is holding me for you
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.21.2024
A Painter Would
Rain is just warm snow
Watch out for deer when you come home
I’m in my chair working on something good
Writing songs like a painter would
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.22.2024
Showdown
Neither of us want to be
The first to make the move
We both want each other to know
That this is something
We would never do
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.22.2024
First Love
I met him when I was only sixteen
He was filing his fingernails on his jeans
— Julie Loren Webb, 11.22.2024
Perfect Match
The night you came to me
The moon was cut in half
One side was me
One side was you
Together we made a perfect match
— Julie Loren Webb, 12.11.2024
Broom Spider
I’m your broom spider
Never sweep me away
I’m your broom spider
I know, will come a day
After your work is done
Before she comes home
Take me for a ride
Then back in my broom to hide
I’m your broom spider
Never sweep me away
I’m your broom spider
I know, will come a day
Kick up the dust
Shake off the dirt
A strange kind of making love
Just make sure I don’t get hurt
I’m your broom spider
Never sweep me away
Always hiding
In a dark place
I’ll stay in the shadows
Oh, she’ll never know
I’ll stay right where I’ve always been
By your side for as long as I live
I’m your broom spider
Never sweep me away
I’m your broom spider
I know, will come a day
— Julie Loren Webb, 12.11.2024
The Forest Floor
I’m alone most nights
Only three miles from you
Watch out for deer
If you come to me
I’m the house with the broken door
You’re the turtle
I’m the oak leaf
We are mimicry on the forest floor
I’m alone most nights
Not far from here
All that’s between us
Is a thicket
Watch out for deer if you come to me
I’m the house with no lights on
No one will see when you come
No need opening the door
It’s broken and we
Are mimicry on the forest floor
— Julie Loren Webb, 12.14.2024
With You
In general
You’ll never hear me wishing
I was someplace that I’m not
But I can’t say that I don’t wish
I was there with you
— Julie Loren Webb, 12.16.2024
I Want You
Please be everything
I want you to be
I need you now more than
The earth needs the rain
I don’t know who you are
But I can’t see
Anything in you
That I don’t love in me
— Julie Loren Webb, 01.03.2024
The Daughter
I’m a farmer’s daughter
A storyteller’s daughter
The daughter of a man who works with wood
The Collector’s daughter
The Preacher’s daughter
The daughter of a man who plays guitar
— Julie Loren Webb, 01.07.2024
The Story of Creation
In the beginning, there was a girl and her guitar…
— Julie Loren Webb, 01.11.2024
On VHS In 1999
I tied a cherry stem
In a knot with my tongue
While taking off my bra
Without taking off my t-shirt
Why don’t you ask if I’d come with you?
With you
Why don’t you ask if I’d come with you?
With you
Did you know that I used to be an escort?
Did you know that I used to be a dancer too? Ooh
Did you know that out of those two things
Only one is true?
I tied a cherry stem
In a knot with my tongue
While taking off my bra
Without taking off my t-shirt
On VHS in 1999
He did all the strings on that
While taking off my bra
Without taking off my t-shirt
Why don’t you ask if I’d come with you?
With you
Why don’t you ask if I’d come with you?
With you
Did you know that I used to be an escort?
Did you know that I used to be a dancer too? Ooh
Did you know that out of those two things
Only one is true?
Did you know that it’s okay for you to love me?
Did you know you’re one of many men who do?
I tied a cherry stem
In a knot with my tongue
While taking off my bra
Without taking off my t-shirt
— Julie Loren Webb, 01.11.2024
Your Son
You are old enough to be my father
But my father’s twenty years older than you
What are you gonna do
With that information?
Every morning I wash my tongue
Every morning you go for a run
Help me live forever
Let me have your son
— Julie Loren Webb, 01.30.2024
Feeling
This is it
This is the feeling
That I wanted
I have it
— Julie Loren Webb, 02.04.2024
The Changes
Waning crescent moon
One star split in two
The only change is the changes
When I’m with you
They changed all the lights in the city
Same band playing every night
Only thing that changes is the changes
Stay with me, baby, stay
Only thing that changes is the changes
And that’s why, yeah Baby, that’s why
I can’t change your mind
— Julie Loren Webb, 02.11.2024
A Mirror
God forbid we ever see ourselves
Together in a mirror
That would be something else
Wouldn’t it?
The place in the glass
Where our eyes met
Somewhere beneath the surface
A place where we can be alone
God forgive me I just asked him
If he saw the moon last night
That was something else
Wasn’t it?
The place in the sky
Where our eyes met
Somewhere beneath the surface
A place where we can be alone
— Julie Loren Webb, 02.15.2024
Nothing To Do
She stepped out the door
To do her sweeping
She looked at the ground
Where the willow was weeping
I sat on my porch and watched her broom
I cried in my hands with nothing to do
— Julie Loren Webb, 02.17.2024
Prayer
God forgive me now
— Julie Loren Webb, 02.18.2024
He Put A Shed
He put a shed
So he could have a place to rest my head
To take me to bed
He put a shed
With a lock on the inside
So we could have a place to hide
To look into my eyes
He put a shed
He put a shed
He put his hands into the pale
And braided my hair with clover and silk
He put a shed so he could have
A place to worship me
— Julie Loren Webb, 02.20.2024
He’ll Always Be With Me
I’ll never meet him
But he’ll always be with me
And without him
I will die
I’m made alive
By him I’m made
And I just made him up
Fill me like a cup
A heart filled with love
You are my love
Served to me when you want
I always want and I wanted it first
I am my thirst
Fill me like a cup
I’ve never wanted it worse
— Julie Loren Webb, 02.22.2024
You Are Gone
I had to remind myself
That you are gone
A thousand times today
You are gone and I cannot survive
You sent my body
Into a state of shock today
When you left, you went away
All I can do is think of you
To protect my mind
From the pain of the reality
That you are gone and I cannot survive
You are gone and I cannot survive
I keep reminding myself
That I won’t be seeing you today
And not tomorrow
For you are gone and I cannot survive
You are gone and I cannot survive
— Julie Loren Webb, 02.22.2024
A Broom and a Bible
A broom and a bible
A broom and a bible
You’re a broom
I’m a bible
We are everything we need
A broom and a bible
A broom and a bible
You’re a broom
I’m a bible
I ride you and you worship me
— Julie Loren Webb, 02.24.2024
My Muse
I can’t put my guitar down
It’s you reading my mind somehow
I can’t get out of bed at all
Safe in my room
I won’t run into you alone
‘Less you show up at my door
That I left open for you
And you climb my stairs
While my dreams come true
See me there
And I’m singing the blues
Tell me you can tell
I’m using you, using you
Using you as a muse
I’m using you, using you
Using you as a muse
Stranger crossing like a star
In my bedroom from afar
My dreams hinge on never coming true
And that’s okay because that’s something
You would never do
And besides that would be just like
What I’ve already been through
Too much a risk for us to choose
So for now
I’m using you, using you as a muse
So for now, I’m using you, using you
As a muse
This close to ruining all my songs
They can’t take much more
Cliche waxing sentimental
Gut wrenching elemental
Writing ‘bout wanting you at all
Give me something tangible
Show up at my door
Tell me you can tell
I’m using you, using you
Using you as a muse
I’m using you, using you
Using you as a muse
— Julie Loren Webb, 02.25.2024
Golden Headlights
On the way home
From you tonight
All the cars behind me
Had golden headlights
Like the sun setting
In my rear view mirrors
Like your eyes
Following me
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.02.2024
Circle Eight
You asked me if I slept alright
I wouldn’t call it sleep
I go bed early and wake up late
So I can dream of you all night
If ever I am unconscious
You are keeping me awake
Moving me like a circle eight
And when my eyes are open
I can only see your face
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.04.2024
Loved By Me
If you’ve ever
Been loved by me
Oh, the sweetness
Oh, the sweetness
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.04.2024
Climbed the Hill
We held hands and walked
Away from the sunset
With no space between us
Our shadows were one
And it climbed the hill
Before we could
Leading us into the unknown
Like only a shadow would
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.05.2024
Foreshadow
Absolved of my sins
Relieved of my duties
Life was never something
That happened to me
I’ve been on time out
With a curse on my name
For a thousand years now
From a door I hang
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.06.2024
Close Enough
I’m a waking dream
Can’t remember what about
I’m a sinner who misbehaves
The shadow of a doubt
I feel so alone
So untouched
No one ever came close enough
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.06.2024
Shadows Weep
I’m so tired of crying myself to sleep
My dreams are rooms where shadows weep
And all the shadows look just like me
Only they are in bed
And I’m on my knees
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.06.2024
The One Who Listens
I feel most alone
When I tell my life story
Someone who asked is listening
And they are my witness at last
But all of lives I’ve lived
All the lovers I’ve left
Will never hear what was said
Every now and then
I am finally seen
But only by the one who is listening
And there just hasn’t been very many of them
In fact, just one, come to think of it
And I suppose I only feel so alone
By the fear of losing him
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.06.2024
The Feeling is Alive
People tend to me now
Since you broke me (that was a sin)
But the feeling is not “broken”
The feeling is pain
The pain is mine
And you can’t break me again
Someone else can
And I’m still alive for it
Here for it (is gone)
Since they took me (that is a sin)
But the feeling is not “taken”
The feeling is gone
The gone is mine
And they can’t take me again
So I long for it to be not so
For someone else who does not know
What they are getting themselves into
People tend to me now
People tend to me now
With raptor gloves and hazmat gowns
And all the while, my arms reach out
All I want is for someone to try
To try, and maybe, he will have made me
Do what he says (That would be a sin)
So I can feel made again
The feeling is not “made” (and it is not made by him)
The feeling is alive
The alive is mine
And he can’t make me again
God can’t make me again
No one can make me feel anything
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
Who Am I
I’m the void where heartbreak
Doesn’t make a sound
I’m the part of the meat
That nothing can eat
I’m the girl who wishes she had a baby
I’m the baby you can’t bring home
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
Signal
He’s coming back
You will know him now
Take this brick
Signal down
Forces uncorrupted
Open book heart
Circle unbroken
Signal start
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
Lay Low
I know how to lay low
I know how to wait
I know how to pull the tide out
And devour all the waves
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
A Sorry Sorry
I made you hurt
You hurt as far as the eye can see
When I say I’m sorry
Feel sorry for me
So I can be sorry
Without having to be
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
Empty Vessel on a Blank Canvas
You are the most handsome
blank canvas I have ever seen
When I paint my empty vessel on you
Your beauty fills me
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
Despair
I have a sorrow-induced toothache
I couldn’t kiss you if you wanted me to
Because I know you wouldn’t like the taste
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
Dresses That Drag on the Ground
I don’t understand dresses that drag on the ground
Unless someone sweeps the ground where I go
And now I see, now I know
You would do that for me, you would, oh My Love
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
Grain of Song
Pain is okay with me
Within every teardrop
There is a grain of song
When pain comes I know
It’s a gift from god
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
Laundry Day
Today I put on the panties I wore
The day that you first touched me
I couldn’t bare to wash them then
I hung them on my clothing rack
But it’s laundry day now and they
Are the cleanest pair I have
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
Brutalism
You don’t have to be my lover
Or the man of my dreams
Be my angel
Do what God needs
Fuck me with a brutalist cock
As if I were being fucked by god
Fuck me with a brutalist cock
Incorporeal I wait for life to come
Something is wrong with me
You will see it move in me
Watch me suck my thumb
Fuck me until I die softly
But not here
Not now
I don’t like this bed
It’s too tall
What if I drop something on the floor
What if I drop my pen
What if I need to reach the ground
What if god turns me upside down
And fucks me
Where will I place my hands
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.07.2024
Time to Sleep
Far away, in the land of time to sleep, called Time to Sleep Land, all the children across the land sleep when it is time to sleep, and not when it is not time to sleep. In fact, it is only time to sleep not, when hiding in the land that sleep forgot, called Sleep Forgot Land, nestled deep in the heart of Time to Sleep Land. But here, in Time to Sleep Land, it is almost always time to sleep.
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.08.2024
I Only Need You
I’m a crescent moon always
Above her head kind of girl (in bed)
You’re a chop wood carry water
Kind of man
It’s easy to build a dream
That’s already true
That’s always been
We need more of you on this planet
(And you too)
That’s nothing new
(But you know what is?)
I only need you
Yeah, the world needs more of you, we do
But I only need you
I only, I only need you
I only, I only need you
I’m alone most nights only
Three miles from you, just a girl in bed
Watch out for deer
If you come to me
Can’t tell us apart anymore
We are mimicry
On the forest floor
We need more of you on this planet
(And you too)
That’s nothing new
(But you know what is?)
I only need you
Yeah, the world needs more of you, we do
But I only need you
I only, I only need you
I only, I only need you
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.15.2024
Time Has Come
It’s the night sun
The bright sun that comes at night
It’s the right one
The time’s come
To die
Here in my lap
Flowers that look good
Even when they’re dead
Here in my lap
Time has come
To die here
Here in my lap
Time in ashes
Covered in dust
Filigree in shadow
Time with rust
Wood glue with resin
Here in my lap
Time looks so good
Even when she’s dead
Here in my lap
The night sun
The moon one
Shines
He can see me no matter where I hide
Under the dresser I saw his eyes
If there is light, he is there to tell you
What to do about your trouble
He says to leave
If you can see light
Then light can see you
Even under the dresser
You are not alone
Do as he says
Time has come
Go with Time
Shine, shine, shine
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.18.2024
Man to Water
I was born to be a princess
With holes in my jeans
When I met you I was sweeping
The floor of your wildest dreams
You can have me baby all to yourself
Just take me
You can lead a man to water
But you can’t make him love you
He lost me one thousand times
‘Til my face turned blue
Sleeping alone every night under the same moon as you
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.18.2024
Mimicry On the Forest Floor
Find someone else
Who you want to make love to
Someone who tends to things
The way you do
Find someone else
Who you want more
This is a forest
The trees are open doors
And we are mimicry on the forest floor
You are the spider
She is the bark
Mimicry on the forest floor
He is the tortoise
I am the oak leaf
We are mimicry on the forest floor
I can’t pretend to be what you take me for
I am the oak leaf, she is the bark
We are mimicry on the forest floor
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.18.2024
Our Love Life
We will always have
A set of sheets
Hanging on the clothesline
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.18.2024
I Love You Forever
You know how a word can sound strange
The more you say it
I love you never sounds strange
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.25.2024
Like Water
We intertwine like water
Having nowhere else to go
Water always settles into its optimum repose
Sometimes first washing away
The heart aches of the past
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.25.2024
The Bench, the Field, the Bed
It’s the beauty we find
The beauty we find
The bench, the field, the bed
It’s the love that we make
The love that we make
The bench, the field, the bed
Every Tuesday we ache
Tuesdays the whole world shakes
The bench, the field, the bed
When we meet again
— Julie Loren Webb, 03.26.2024