Monthly Archives: June 2016

I miss the days when I would find poetry resting peacefully on the kitchen counter, hiding skillfully between the cracks of the tile bathroom floor. Back then, it shuttled out from the tips of my fingers like golden lightning that kept my heart pulsing, my eyelids propped open wide with all of the secrets IContinue reading “Heartbeat”

You have since forgotten the stale aroma of old books, how they once stretched your afternoons into nights that ended in the final flutters of heavy eyelids and young hearts beating with flustered adrenaline. An eternity has separated your fingertips from the edges of creased paper memories that have since faded into faint flickers ofContinue reading “Rediscovery”

Write it all down. The way you feel when you wake up on a rainy Saturday morning, the howling thunder of a summer storm, how your heart races like hurricane winds at the simple thought of tomorrow. Write about your best friend’s laugh at three in the morning and how blissful it is to haveContinue reading “The Poet’s Lament”

Contrary to popular belief, I am not always a happy person. I am not made of summer sunshine and daffodils and constantly feeling limitless. I am not a cartoon character on the screen of a static television that can only ever showcase one emotion, laughing away humble hours and only ever blushing out of joy.Continue reading “Undefined”

Home is here, within the safety of arms that hold me tightly so that emptiness can no longer climb into my bones. You are the roof when it storms in my mind and the buckets overflowing with tears that seep through the cracks in the ceiling on the nights my skin forgets how to shelter.Continue reading “Lover’s Lullaby”

what is left with the poet after her words have been silenced? nothing but the static hum of passing time crawling past every wilted heartache, every kiss left out in the summer rain to rot inside stained pages that have forgotten the blistering sensation of abandonment no matter how hard she craves for them toContinue reading “silence”