Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

All poetry written by American singer songwriter Lana Del Rey. Non-profit.

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A Note on Images

All interior color photographs by Lana Del Rey © 2020

Black-and-white photos for the second, third, sixth, and ninth haikus by Lana Del Rey © 2020

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

Open the front door
hello I say to no one
I know no one’s home

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

No big decisions
to the lake or to the sea
My only question

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

Babe let’s go to town
buy something sweet - pink grapefruit
eat it with sugar

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

I stepped on a bird
cried in my new boyfriend’s arms
to live is to kill

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

Every night I die
when I give myself to you
sad but beautiful

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

You in the soft light
the 450 from Venice
a river of red

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

Jasmine in the air
the burden of fame is real
never felt so clear

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

I love u
But u don’t understand me

You see
I’m a real poet

My life is my poetry
My lovemaking is my legacy

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

A thing perfect and ready to become a part of the texture of the fabric of Something more ethereal
like Mount Olympus
where Zeus and Athena and the rest of the immortals play

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

Like a view of the sea
on a summer day on the most perfect winding road
taken in from your car seat window

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

Unable to be deciphered or metabolized

something metaphysical

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

Untouchable
Safe
Otherworldly

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

because things that can’t be bought can’t be evaluated and that makes them beyond human reach.

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

My thoughts are not for sale
they’re about nothing
and beautiful and for free

i wish you could get that
and love that about me

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

You see I’m a real poet

My life is my poetry
my lovemaking is my legacy

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

I love u
But you don’t understand me

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

or by you some afternoon—
to thumb through— with your worn warm after-work hands.

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

or remembered should my thoughts come upon them in the
middle
of the night after a beach day

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

I don’t want to sell my stories anymore stop pushing me.

[Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass @PoetryByLDR]

run you out of my blood to San Pedro
and yet everywhere I go it seems there you are.
And there I am.