Come, knife at the night
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Journey
Bleed at the cliffs of abandon, one with the rock-side scraping your backside, there is an ocean pounding down below that I know but you stare at the sky, as you lie, “tell me all your problems but that water, oh that water is dark.” Come, bleed in the dark water then. And I’ll takeContinue reading “Journey”
Death
Part 4: surrender your body to the rhythm when the radio static goes dead.
Life
Part 3: Snapshot sodden soil, play a day by slow-mo, zoom in to a trembling twig and find universes of movement.
Weakness
Part 2: This thing I created is not good enough. The day I return to that epiphany of light, I will see through the illusion of grandeur to threadbare words fraying to piec e s.
Strength
Part 1: Today, I shake the very earth with a vibration of my fingers. This sea of emotion within me births hurricanes, I tear at forests, lash the oceans, I am so vast I can touch a whole continent with my heart.
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You are my shared historian.
Word Association Game 2
How this works: I literally just pick a random word. In this case, the word is “word.” From there I write whatever comes to mind, building from that word via rhymes, alliteration, popular song phrases, images that come to mind…whatever.
bur
n . I got a lotta pent up rage, for my age, I ain’t young enough to cry no more, I ain’t old enough to understand war, this is war, war’s a bloody affair blood don’t care thicker than thoughts lightning thoughts burn you thoughts, enemy of my enemy is my fire fuel war hasContinue reading “bur”
Jordyn Saelor 