Nobody's Favourite Toy
21 November 2024
Oh, sweet Barbie doll, how hard it must be, to be a toy, and never get to be anybody's favorite toy. A little worn out with every year, …
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a collection of 13 poems
Tears of Eve
10 November 2024
I was punished by my lover, for loving him, I was punished by men, for loving my lover. I was punished by men who had to defend themselves to friends, I was punished by friends who had to defend themselves before men. I was punished by men I'd never seen before, I was punished by brief acquaintances I failed to see through. …
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The Secret of the Sun
23 September 2024
The sea makes the sun bleed. Red, pink, and purple bruises, golden bloodstains on blue sheets. The most spectacular fall from grace, the audience has ever seen. So why does the sun keep going back, …
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A girl at the beach
20 September 2024
A girl at the beach, The sea and she were new next-door neighbours. She knew how to swim, But the kelp and shells kept her at bay, Instead, she watched in wonder from afar, Pacific reflections of her incandescent rays. …
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Mirror Mirror
25 August 2024
"Mirror Mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of them all?" "It's you, my dear," she affirmed, "Not one kinder, Not one brighter." Light bending gracefully off the spectre's mask, …
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Sunflower
14 June 2024
Tall, bright, head held high, A beautiful bloom in a field of sunshine, With every ray she wrapped, The skies in her embrace, Revelling within her beloved's warm, nurturing gaze. * …
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Mirror
9 June 2024
Six feet, golden hair, green eyes, God’s favourite child, Trapped in a mirror maze, Struggling to escape, Every version of himself. The broken glass leaves bleeding hands, …
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Haunting Flashes
20 February 2024
The lights were on... The ghost left. The lights were off... The monster came in. The lights never turned on. The flash was on. …
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Happy (hou)RS - Bloodstains
31 August 2023
Why do we seek comfort at the source of our pain? His sin recorded in print, Yet the foolish heart lingers, On days long gone by, Unstirred by black and white, To revel in a lover's lie. …
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Walking across an Eventide
26 August 2023
The catacombs of Paris cry, For an innocence lost twice, ... No, thrice… For there was a ghost that night. ... …
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Relapse
23 June 2017
In bashful, crystalline methamphetamine eyes, I watched five-thousand fire-flies, I craved a panacea but settled for an anodyne, To soothe the chronic pain of my aching soul every night; In the drowsy darkness, a sweet palm of an amber vinous hue would rest on my cheek, …
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The Thespian's Blade
29 March 2017
Sad eyes, glad eyes, hollow heart, Seems she plays multiple parts, A quarter egotist, A half manipulative, A whole broken, Completely forsaken. …
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In Search Of Your Gravestone
28 March 2017
I sit among these graves, Mourning the loss, in bittersweet reminiscence, Of a lovely romance, Of a beautiful, compassionate man; I wander here oft, in search of your name, …
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