Poetry

  • Hair

    Your hair was always beautiful,

    Long and luciousous,

    Everyone always loved it. 

    But then you cut it off. 

    Long strands fly away to the floor,

    While you're in the bathroom, 

    Closed door. 

  • baby dandelions

    golden like the sun,

    blooming in the spring.

    till they turn to fuzz,

    flying in the wind.

    what our parents call weeds,

    what we called flowers when we were young.

    seems like such a sweet song,

  • Beginnings and no endings

    • I have not even met all of me left
    • The ocean understands a part of me I always keep hidden
    • I will always escape to nature and never you
    • I keep trying to tell you it's been a while since I've been me
    • The less I
  • Poetry

    By wph

    My Head Cold

    My head cold waits at my bedroom windowsill 

    Tells me: 

    ‘No, you can’t do your homework. Lie back down and quit thinking so much.’ 

    Tells me: 

  • fragile foundation

    every twist of inadequacy's blade

    (each one worse than the previous)

    fell in a rhythmic order, one that your silence

    carried in. did you hate me?

    you'd never say so. so blindly, i never changed.

  • where i keep my heart

    In my attic I keep my heart.
    I hold it there, safe amidst pillows, blankets and childhood stuffed animals.
    When I make things, I break off a piece of my heart,
    And sew it into pillows,
    Hide it in sunsets,

  • Poetry

    By wph

    The Rafters

    Remember the old A-shaped house?

    The one with the castle downstairs

    And the spell around it?

     

    It's empty now.

    Did you know that?

  • This Book

    There was this book

    That I used to read

    When I was younger

    It talked about all these women

    All these women

    Who did amazing things

  • Post

    I know you went running

    yesterday

    and your kids had a great

    first day of school

    picture, anyway,

    I wore overalls too

    but everyone will think

    I was copying you

    won't they didn't they