OverTheRainbow

OverTheRainbow

VT

11 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

  • My Mother: The Earth

    I was born in the morning

    when the wind's gentle hands

    would fly past me- laughing

    should we run through the land

     

    I was born as the birds were

    under the eaves

    of a soothing huckleberry

  • Mauve

    Mauve is the lipstick we stole from your mother, 

    smeared sideways across your mouth and all over 

    your Sprite bottle, 

    a clandestine weight in your pocket  

  • hummingbird girl

    She's hidden, cowering in the corner,

    as she waits, mouth open,

    words frozen on her lips.

    She does not speak.

    I mold my sadness into poetry and she watches me,

    amber eyes taking in everything and nothing.

  • Pluvia

    Time seems to move slower when it rains 

    Cars hesitate before they turn 

    Bird wings lag as raindrops batter their feathers 

    The world seems small and heavy