Last October I attempted a 30 poetry challenge. I didn’t get very far, but I’ll be posting a few of the poems I didn’t hate here.
Cultivating Softness (page 4)
Back Home
(Lyrics from Back Home by Andre Tanker) i went away / i leave an i come back home / i come back to stay / i must see meh way It…
Alphabet Love Song
Alphabet Love Song (For PC 37, 38, 39) A B C D E F G H… H… H… H has become too heavy a letter for me. Home, heart, hurt… Heavy because…
Sins of the Flesh
Flesh only begets more flesh And this flesh of mine -formed in sin and shapened in iniquity- knows only lust and I dance between longings. Flesh begets more flesh.
Passions
i can’t keep twistingmy ankles to dance orbreaking my heart to write
Tensions
–> I am beginning to name my knots. Let one in my neck be Wanting from every time I clenched my jaw after breathing in her scent. Let the tightness in my…
Requiem
I only love those slender boys with slight frames when they remind me of you.
Moonshine
Moonlight pours through my window and reminds me that while the days are too dark the nights can still be bright.
Bedtime Stories
I read to you because my mother read to me. And in those moments I felt as loved and as safe as a strangely paranoid and anxious child could feel -Certainly more…
Public Transit
Laughing at a stranger’s jokes is equal parts relief and mania.