Sometimes I feel I have to present my bestest self just for someone to take notice, and if nobody does I just gotta try harder. I just gotta cut sharper through the apathy, trickle a clever-er metaphor into someone’s heart like suddenly their veins will go “Oh, I understand.” But sometimes, I need to breakContinue reading “Perfection-whism”
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No shame, angst, insecurity
no shame, angst, insecurity can come burning this town down, all deadly thoughts, I soak ‘em in sound.
Gore Gone
Like my poems could carve out chunks of the universe and hand them to you on a platter, I keep hunting between these lines for more time, more light, another night
Retrospective (Landscape of a Heart)
So…Landscape of a Heart is finished! Chapter 30 was the last one. If you’d like to catch up on the story, you can find the table of contents at this link. Otherwise, what’d you think? Did you have a favorite poem? Favorite character? Any theories? Tell me in the comments:) (Ps, here’s a friendly reminderContinue reading “Retrospective (Landscape of a Heart)”
30- Landscape of a Heart
I took up residence in a library (of course she did) and I took up writing (of course she did) but mostly I took up the chore these mountain dragons never bothered with
rednuht fo seohcE
But the cycle never stops, the kings and the apocalypses, the hearts and traitors and friends of raiders, do you hear it in the hills
29- lightning
strike fire fight light lead us on to where it’s bright
28- Am I worth it
If I just find one being to treat me nice, that would be enough, right? So why do I have to go on
take a bulkestrok
take me with you on your rebellion of gladness, say hello to the lonely folk and tell ‘em it’s our turn to up and glow
cancer
I’ve often thought of myself as living on the outskirts of society, like a cancer with more self-awareness than the organism itself.
Jordyn Saelor 