Phoenix Rising
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Anecdote
I think the worst thing is that I shall become an anecdote a small story of no real significance shared with his new lover over breakfast or in the...
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Don’t Forget
Don’t forget She’s just a girl Beneath the woman facade Behind the things she says To deflect you from noticing She is frightened and unsure Those...
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- 144 reads
Drunken Love
Drunken love is the purest form of love, in my opinion It’s the love that remains long after Your ability to think straight So instead your thinking...
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Fever
My mind sets fire to us Incinerates all Scribbles vivid suggestions Sends messages to Trust nothing that you say. My heart, meanwhile Sits knitting...
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For Now
I lay still against you With a belly full of 3am panic Your eyes shutter As you pull me in Warm words fall freely On my shoulder Your voice is the...
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Green
I saw you yesterday On the green You sat talking easily Your deep lazy laugh Carrying over the grass You didn’t mean To look up And see me. But when...
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Knickers
Six years later After the frantic fervour of lust After the shared washing basket After the sleepless nights of newborn bliss Six years later
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Random poem of abandonment
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Well, thing is I don’t. Put your fingers and toes away and sit back down. He is eating the dinner I have cooked at the table I have cleaned.
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Remnants
She faded away into the mists of time misremembered misplaced a memory of having been But what was it? a life bent out of shape buckled at the...
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Scream
I loved you With such darkness Drawn towards An obsidian core Absorbing emotion Like osmosis You spoke In charcoal Black words etched lightly To...
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Somewhere
Beyond the wasted years I claw back time Bundles of hours Crumpled into fists Enveloped by wrinkled fingers Salted with agony I scrape a burial mound...
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Strange Things
I am desperate for the love he cannot feel A hand on his, soft lips to the stubble along his jawbone, skin to skin... The conversations and the easy laughter of soulmates
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Things I have done since he left
Things I have done since he left: retched cried peeled off my remaining nail polish poured a glass of water (but not drunk it) read each of his 4...
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Vena Cava
Vena cava My heart is Coated in salty Solitary feelings Gold presides here in Soft nooks Conceiving Adoration In crescendo Pressed warm with...
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Wild
Your eyes transcend the moment I see them years from now Wondrous Wild hides within their sparkle I hunted always for danger But here lies quiet...
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You Pull Up A Chair
You pull up a chair I ignore you And your chestnut eyes Your stance has changed Your demeanour altered Without agreement We have retreated Those eyes...
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Your Eyes
Emeralds and diamonds Glittery glances Beneath fine lashes Speak to me of mischief Awe and promises. My thoughts spin and twist; You hold me Bring...
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Swipe
Have you ever matched with someone on Tinder and it turns out to be the super-hot dad of one of the children in your class? And on parents evening he...
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I Can’t
I can’t Do this to myself again I can’t be that girl The 6 week girl The ‘this’ll do fo now’ girl Pain upon pain I’m fine No honestly, it was just a...
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Closing the Wound
I ripped my soul To show you Where my heart is I tore deep Clawed flesh Pulled wiry strings From within Seams that can’t be sown Carefully together I...
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A Casual Fling
As long as no one gets too serious He types to me Devoid of emotion A wipe-clean relationship A friend with benefits Weekend sex A hangover spoon Is...
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Goddess
Sometimes I wake as a goddess Commanding storms with fistfuls of thunderbolts Sometimes a wild child Climbing trees to the stars Tethering galaxies...
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So I Wrote A Poem
The day gravity stopped We floated for weeks Propelled by the last breaths of normality Numbness infiltrated all Everyone was tucked in tightly...
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