Save your light, dear ones When your candle burns low The flickers in its orange glow Dim in wind’s blustery blow Save your light, dear ones Take that love into your heart The soft red curtains pull apart Focus on the bright find the art Save your light, dear ones Hold tight to your dreams…
Category: Poetry
Poetry: Incapable
For Victory, from yours truly xo You were once told that I was leaving and you had no choice. It was said not with any religious fervor or excess of faith but in very sincere truth. I earnestly believed that I was incapable not just of critical thoughts, but of critical feelings. But truly you…
Guest Author: Critical Thoughts
From Victory, for yours truly xo I was once told that brown was a choice. It was in loving jest, at a place of inclusive worship. I oft think of this remark and parallels spring unbidden from my mind, Like plants with conscious agendas acending towards the light. Hair, a brunet canopy, weaves it way…
Poetry: Unmuzzle Your Wisdom
Trigger Warning: Domestic Violence, Aggresive Feminism 😉 Dear soul they tell you things To keep you quiet To keep your thoughts shallow To keep you as you are Good dogs don’t think for themselves Don’t ask too many questions Stop trying to change the world they say And they hold a hand around your mouth…
Haiku: Faun
Beneath soft bedsheets A dear trapped sleeping Hunter shoot your shot
Poetry: Birds
For Victory xo Beauty be in all she is A soft red and white robin in wedded bliss Under a string of fairy fire Hummingbird heart beats faster as I spiral ever higher The thrum of a lyrebird’s wings Could never counter the call of nightmarish kings // But now it all mellows into a…
Poetry: Free
Verily I say unto you that it is the truth that sets a man free But it is kindness and love that sets women free Who bring them through tough times and dry the tears That decorate our too beautiful faces and when for the Thousandth time a soldier comes home weary of war It…
Poetry: My Land
For as many years as I’ve walked this earth I’ve walked with magical footsteps The line between this world and the one before us blurred in rhythmic harmony On me by my land my home my lovers Overlapping moments of music and unknown quantities and the rush of windchimes In gum trees and ancient beech…
Poetry: Atalanta
Ice cream crushes on his ruby red lips The smell of salt water underneath perfectly cut fingernails Laughter ringing out in peals of delight Happiness is in the air like the smell of cotton candy And as the fairy lights are strung around the boardwalk His heart lights are strung around the girl with the…
Haiku: Rises
He rises with dawn Red-eyed wild halo glinted horns Burning cock crowing
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