Writing

Man at desk with black birds
["Asgardian Seagulls," digital art by cedar, YWP]
  • The wrong metaphor

    You compared me to a"beautiful flower."

    I don't think I'm beautiful.

    Especially not like the pink flower you said I was.

    I'd say I'm more like a notebook, 

    there, but not noticed.

  • Bring Back Bullying

    Why do people say that?

    How do people say that?

    They say it as if it's all a joke,

    and maybe to them it is,

    but to the people being bullied it's not, 

     it never was,

    and it never will be.

  • The Moon

    The moon whispers

    Oh so quietly, yet

    It is louder than all else

    Its words wind through the frozen trees and dance across the sparkling snow, the forest still but for its wavering reminder that

  • joslyn

    The house was on fire, 

    And the ceiling fell.

     

    But when it did, 

    It didn't land well.
     

    It was your cause of death,

    At just fourteen. 


    You had to leave, 

  • Chamomile Tea

    Chamomile tea on a winters day is

    Comforting as a warm hug

    Soothing as ointment on chapped skin 

    Steaming like the lazy trail of smoke from a chimney

    Wonderful like a homemade thank you card