poet – Page 9 – Jordyn Saelor

Prometheus/Persephone

They say a relationship won’t save you, but I am still a social animal, falling prey to silly things like a need for validation

So I don’t usually do anything like write posts about music albums, but…I’ve been listening to this album multiple times a week since it was released in June, 2024 (see: I’m obsessed with it). And it feels incredibly important to, like, humanity. So I wanted to make a post about it. The music essentially asks,Continue reading “What Happened to the Heart?”

Silly humility/frogs in the water

silly humility got me like frogs in the water blinking black soggy eyes, silly humility got me an illusion

Generative AI

It is not a thing in the cloud. Not nebulously floating around, summoned by the beckon of a button, convenient, easy, fun. It is a thing broken

I’m comin’ like a stormwall

gonna descend on the denizens of this world, think they’re wise with their minds caught up in city hives

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