Writing Like the Dickens
It’s so hard to start
Brain and pen, poles apart
Yet two lines in, the pace quickens
Soon you’re writing like the dickens
Thoughts stream in and out your head
...
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Categories:
writing, bird, flying, river, words,
Form: Couplet
hiku
Categories:
writing, color, deep, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
A Pause in the PoetryI’m not writing poems anymore. Somewhere along the way, I feel like I lost the poet in me---- the spark, the soul, the words. I’m choosing to start fresh, to rediscover myself beyond verses and rhymes.
Thank you for all the appreciation, love, and support you've shown me. I hope you understand this new beginning I’m...
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Categories:
writing, dream, farewell, future, growing
Form: Free verse
summer harvest
Categories:
writing, beautiful, earth, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
Not Her Fault"It was your dress," they replied
Was it? The ripped fabric cried
The 5-year-old's laughter silenced that day
Couldn't even scream, "I'm just a child," and ran away
"It was your shorts," they claimed
Was it? The torn seams proclaimed
The 10-year-old's dreams shattered, flamed
Couldn't even cry, "I'm just a girl," with shame
"It was your clothes," they blamed
Was it? The cloth...
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Categories:
12th grade, woman, writing,
Form: Free verse
Next, Next, Step
Standing on a rusted platform,
I look towards the looming, tarnished steel clock,
Ticking away my final moments of existence.
Oceanic eyes swell with liquid salinity
As a hollowing whistle booms in the close distance.
The scent of petrol mingles with midnight paranoia.
Placing a shaking hand upon my vibrating chest,
I can detect the trembling of a trepidatious heart,
Whilst the monstrous...
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Categories:
writing, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Reasons whyI haven't written anything today:
The fridge needed defrosting
Bottle of wine 'not going to drink itself'
Need to charge phone (minor)
TiVo 75% full, must spend time
watching/deleting programmes
Note to self: define TiVo for future generations
Plus, you'll obviously remember all
the amazing slash mundane ideas you had today and
write them up later on some loosely
defined (series of) date(s)
And, it's Friday
You'll...
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Categories:
writing, creation, holiday, irony, wine,
Form: Free verse
After a Writing Workshop About the Body
This is not my body.
Not the one that used to tell everything
to anyone—
I mean everything,
like I thought it might get me somewhere
closer to known.
I sat in a circle today,
some kind of writing thing—
you know the type.
Lots of deep breathing
and soft lighting.
Someone cried reading what they wrote
in the first eight minutes
and I—
well, I flinched.
Not because it...
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Categories:
age, appreciation, women, writing,
Form: Free verse
Freewriting
the thought of you is consuming me
even as I consume content
on how to communicate with you.
I won’t turn on the camera—
the perception of being perceived
is too much.
I’m avoiding you like I do everything:
dressed like a street urchin
for plausible deniability,
streaming lofi beats I had to Google.
and if you’re going to know me,
I should admit I started...
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Categories:
allusion, appreciation, writing,
Form: Free verse
SessionsRegret has found me knocking at its door again. Shame answered immediately as if it had been waiting for its old friend. Opening its door where the comfy couch is that I turn my thoughts over in exchange for inner peace and solace. There is a spot molded to my body where I take...
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Categories:
writing, deep, inspirational, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
AI is Destroying The Written Word
I want to weep
at the destruction of poetry
that comes now with the use of...
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Categories:
poets, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Absence Notes
after “This Is Just To Say,” by William Carlos Williams
I have not
opened
your letter
from last fall—
it lives in the drawer
with the paper snowflake
I told you
was beautiful.
I imagine
the ink has bled
by now,
and that the apology
is softer
for it.
But I like
to keep some things
unread—
as proof
I once mattered
enough
to be written to....
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Categories:
write, writing,
Form: Free verse
Poetic StreamWhen angels took my love in dawn's white light,
I wallowed in the wake of fate gone wrong;
too weak to fight my demons in the night,
too numb to know the gift that was her song.
Like brittle leaves left dying in a field
I longed to rise on autumn's gusty breeze.
Without the...
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Categories:
writing, feelings, life, loss, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
For a Lost MuseI sat today, thinking of you.
So, I thought selflessly.
It was a disgusting day too.
The dogs bayed helplessly
At the mountain of fog.
The tall clouds unburdened
Into filthy manholes.
It rained and poured a flood.
In a quiet mind, there it waits
Your poetry, our song.
I felt fine, yes, but who dictates
Rain's where, when, and how long.
Probably Russia, after all,
That'll squeeze...
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Categories:
absence, rain, writing,
Form: Verse
Pickled ThoughtsTruth be told I knew what it was
When it was pushed to the back of “that” draw
That place where cucumbers of thought turn to mush
They once held value, that thought, that cucumber
Yet somehow slipped from the consciousness of concern
There will be no “oh, poor baby” recollections
No prodigal thought reunions
No recognition of what they might have...
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Categories:
irony, writing,
Form: Free verse
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