Posts
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Toxins
You left long ago
Yet your words still linger
Like a gaping wound
That never heals
Will I ever learn
To expunge the toxins in my veins
That you erected in my heart?
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The Sunset Collection (All Six Parts)
This six-part collection of poetry tells a story based on two characters in the book series I'm writing. One dies, and each poem describes one of the five stages of grief the other encounters.
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The Sunset
I watch the sunset
Its beauty stealing my breath
Leaving an orange glow on its surroundings
Leaving a little hope for the ones who seek it
The ones who succumb to the darkness
The ones craving warmth and beauty
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We Rise
There’s grief in the air
But we rise
We rise from the ashes
Standing tall
Tears streaking down our faces
As we stand
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The Mirror Lies
You look into the mirror
Disappointed
By what you see
All the flaws stand out like red flags
As you criticize your body
Despising every imperfection
Loves
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Trippin'
Down the Interstate,
Stuffed in an SUV,
A perfect suburban one.
You shake your knees.
Mom tells you to stop shaking.
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save the world
since you’re not dead yet but you should be
swear you’ll save the world
because you’ll be the first to know and the first
to ever do anything about it.
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Fragments of Heartbreak in Paris
This morning I watched
as someone I love broke their heart.
Over and over,
I watched them wander through the secret streets of Paris,
clumsily holding their heart in their hands. -
Beyond the mirror's shadow
In the mirror, I see fragments
of you staring back at me,
but I refuse to let your shadow
define the woman I've become.
Your voice echoes in my mind,
reminders of the wounds you inflicted, -
Sweater of Me
Songs
of my father’s
belly laughter
flow through the eye
of the needle
and around the loom
with each abdominal contraction.
It reminds me of
home. -
A Frigid Embrace
With an icy heart,
I watch her play her part,
Casting a spell on the land.
To many, she takes everything grand.
With the dark blanket of clouds above,