bumblebea

bumblebea

VT

15 years old

Posts

  • Fourth of July?

    This year I didn’t lay out an outfit for the fourth,

    This year I wore all blue

    I didn’t want to represent the other side,

    Not today.

     

    This year we didn’t go to the parade 

  • For old times' sake

    I don't know you. 

    I knew your laugh and the way your eyes crinkled,

    I knew that you loved chocolate and hated shrimp, 

    I knew everything about you,

    But I don't know you.

    Not anymore. 

     

  • Today

    Today I've walked around school in a haze

    I don't know what to do 

    How to feel 

    I don't understand

    How he won again

    I don't think I want to understand

  • Halloween

    I miss Halloween

    Not because it changed

    But I did

    I miss going with my parents and my brother

    And stuffing my face with candy

    I miss meticulously planning out a costume

Loves

  • Poetry

    By Rae

    iPhone

    You have plastered my eyelids open 

    Non contact tonometry

    Force fed with gavage until I no longer awake 

    at the smell of burning grease.

     

    Burrowed into retinas like a small flaming needle,

  • blood, white, and blue

    It's 12:34 AM on July 5th, 2025 and I still see fireworks going off in the sky.

    I hear the booms, the bangs, the commotion of endless fireworks

    going on for hours

    still raging

    on a brand new day.

  • 249th

    blow out your candles. 

    make a wish.

    hold up a protest sign.

    tonight the fireworks spell R E S I S T.

    your hair's in pigtails braided red blue and white.

  • When You Are Old

    When you are old and too tired to sleep,

    Steeping like your lemon tea

    In ancient memories and dreams,

    I wonder if you’ll think of me.


    When your forehead’s deeply lined

    With remnants of the tears you cried

  • Poetry

    By wph

    Misfit Kid Summer

    I look at the empty kiddie pool in my backyard

    In the Midwest summer

    My friends used to come to my house

    So they could all get in it,

    But they don’t like to swim much anymore