OverTheRainbow

OverTheRainbow

VT

12 years old

Posts

  • it's an adventure

    my best friend

    lives up the street from me

    today is sunday

    at one pm we'll meet up,

    go chasing after the tantalizing jingle

    that roams our neighborhood every weekend,

    announcing cold sugary treats,

  • summer ramblings

    the horizon blurs into a mess of golden dots

    half-glowing in the early sunset, and

    the shoreline into greenish brown, swaying

    slightly and I can't tell if it's the long grass in the breeze or the angle I'm at

  • Delights

    Ross Gay, a famed poet and essayist whose works include Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude and Bringing The Shovel Down, is known for his essayettes of delights, compiled in The Book of Delights and The Book of More De

  • joy

    summer awakens that joy in me

    not the kind

    people attempt to attribute to poetry

    (go read some poems,

    idiots,

    go find out that poets

    aren't always joyful,

    go discover that sadness

Loves

  • 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

  • Eyes

    the leaves are turning the color of your eyes again 

    as they fall to the ground i take care not to step on them 

    break their fragile spines, crack their delicate skin 

  • I, the minotaur

    here I sit-
    bathed in darkness
    trapped beyond reach of the sun

    I do not touch the poor creatures they cast into my darkness
    flesh does not satiate me
    so I chew on my rage

  • 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.