"SILENCE IS GOLDEN" (TRUE)

silence is golden like the song, the soft shrill of early morning To sit and breathe in and out Without a care priest +used say breathe in good,let out the bad.

MY DEAR LORRAINE (updated)

I love you as my little girl but still have your first curl With your winning looks and smiles I’ve nursed you when ill and cried

Anorexia

A young girl watched her mum as she conformed to how society dictated how a girl should look - a little nip, a little tuck. Although just five, she took it in and saw how chocolate was a sin.
Cherry

A Sad Old Bear

My name is Edward T D Bear, I’m fifty-five today. The coat and hat of plaid I wear is faded now to grey. My old fur body’s not the same as what it used to be.

i was with(out)

this feels a bit immature and a bit premature. it isn't great. good? questionable. but i like it. would love some feedback. i'm not entirely sure what it's about.
Cherry

Radiation, Suicide, Superpowers

All superheroes have their own believable origin story. Batman lost his parents, Superman lost his planet, Spider-Man lost his ability to never get bitten by a radioactive spider. I’m no different.

The Water-Level

Glaciation Poem VII

Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle, honeysuckle, honeysuckle surrounded by your presence and flushing through my vanes

To One Distant & Beloved

The horizon’s spread their wings Distance comes forth, covering the fields Lamplight doused, darkening the cities And letting black drapes fall

Land-slide

Part V of Glaciation, sadly the shape of the poem cannot be replicated on here (it ought to be curved at the side until the end of the penultimate stanza)

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