when my daughter asks what her future will be like
You will carry on a conversation with the fireflies of July,and their words, translated in the form of glow-beats,will stain your tongue with their acidic truth.You will grow so lonely that at some...
View Articlewhen a single year is not enough
After the local police station decides to put a limiton the number of suicides that can be committed per year,I hold his hand as he listens to the lady on the other endof the receiver inform him that...
View ArticleI'm going to do slam poetry for the first time tomorrow and I'm super excited...
That’s so exciting! I’m really happy that my poetry has helped get you to this point. Good luck tomorrow; I know you’ll do great and it will be an awesome experience! :)
View Article"come with all your shame come with your swollen heart i’ve never seen...
“come with all your shame come with your swollen heart i’ve never seen anything more beautiful than you.” - Warsan Shire, from “First Thought After Seeing You Smile” (via sickur)
View Articlewill you please explain the meaning of "when a single year is not enough"
Government puts a limit on the number of people who can commit suicide per year.Main character, a guy, wants to kill himself but the limit has already been reached.As the year goes by, his partner...
View ArticleWhat's your favorite genre of poetry? Is there like a time period of poetry...
I honestly enjoy modern poetry the most, especially slam poetry or just confessional free verse. But I do enjoy some poets from older time periods, like Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Bukowski, Dylan...
View ArticleMy year in lists Stomping on your fingers as you’re clinging on to the...
My year in lists Stomping on your fingers as you’re clinging on to the abyss So put on every winter coat that you’ve owned since ‘98 And every midnight sees the countdown to another awful day I cherish...
View Article"Someday we’ll know why I wasn’t meant for you."
“Someday we’ll know why I wasn’t meant for you.” - The New Radicals, Someday We’ll Know (via falenir)
View Article"You don’t write back I write, but you don’t write back, and I’m not sure if...
“You don’t write back I write, but you don’t write back, and I’m not sure if my letters never reach you, or if you’ve just given up on me coming back from this war.I dream of you, of your skin, I walk...
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Hi, I was wondering if you could help me. I know you write poems and is into...
This is a difficult question and I honestly have no idea what you should do, especially since novel writing is clearly not my forte. So I’m going to open up the question to my followers for an answer,...
View ArticleHi! I was wondering if you could help with some ways of describing eyecolours...
Blue- His/her eyes were as blue as the prominent veins in a junkie’s damaged wrist, the mountains that turn deep cerulean at night and then burn off their colors with the fog at dawn, the butterflies...
View Article"I’ve been smoking a lot and starting to doubt if I’m breathing you in or...
“I’ve been smoking a lot and starting to doubt if I’m breathing you in or smoking you out” - Keaton Henson (via fassadenmensch)
View Articleyou can buy nail polish, but not tolerance
When we head to Costco to pick out new shades of nail polishfor the upcoming school year, the employee suggestsRaspberry Ripple and Emerald Ebullience. We buy several bottlesof each and take turns...
View ArticleWhat piece of writing includes the line "Burn all the clothes he touched". I...
I think it might be this one:to women who have been touched in unwanted waysI hope that’s the right one; if not, just tell me! :)
View Articleyou are not alone in the way you think you are
While you are up here, standing at the edge of the roof with the intent to jump off, first look beneath you at the street below and all the people walking along it. There are probably a few joggers...
View Articleinstructions for getting rid of regret
Start by lighting a match and hold it to your throat in the hopesthat all the unwanted words will burn and rise, flaming, to the roofof your mouth, where you can vomit them out like the ashes they...
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