The beauty of the one that captured my heart
is certainly enough to stop it.
The beauty of the one that captured my heart
is certainly enough to start it.
There it lies, all alone
Amongst the dark and cold
An ember small from the distance shone
That it might yet come alight
Tried I have to raise the flame
For warmth I'm yet to feel
To no avail, perhaps this night
The frost shall run its course
pincushion paperweight heart by apoemhowsweet, literature
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pincushion paperweight heart
I was feeling restless, like I wanted to die,
but also like I wanted another biscuit with jam on
(''to soften it, darling, they’re a little bit stale.'')
-My aunt Ivy with lipstick on her teeth,
her voice crackling like a static radio.
I tried to write a poem, but instead
wrote his name on my palm in fountain pen,
watching the ink bleed slowly into the cracks,
and considered baking a batch of cinnamon rolls.
Then I read the first three pages of four different books,
(Waugh, Bukowski, Vonnegut, Nin),
drank half a cup of black coffee and rolled
a cigarette but lost it somewhere amongst the fibres of
the shag pile rug.
I think Audrey ate
5'8.
36, 25, 38, it'd be nice.
long, healthy blonde hair,
blue eyes,
typical caucasian female.
miles of legs,
straight toes,
collarbones of a model, yeah.
how pretty, yeah.
how pretty.
i went in for a checkup, momma made me
get my blood panel done.
it's always the same. blood pressure,
check my ears, hold me down for the
life that runs inside me because needles are
nasty. she made me step up to the
wall. my mother snorted.
she made me step onto the scale.
my mother 'tsked.'
i'm half asian and the other half white and i couldn't
give a damn about what i would have
to give up to be either or.
5'2.
46, 32, 48, give me a break.
the man in th
an october apology to my body by apoemhowsweet, literature
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an october apology to my body
i)
the crook of my arm is blue once more.
a round bruise, a globe of the earth, laced with green.
a little world in the boomerang curve of my elbow,
which i peer at from far away.
-
(i’m sorry little arm, i know you’re sick of blood tests.
i know you’re fed up of all the poking with needles,
to check up on my poor struggling liver.
i’ll tell it i’m sorry for starving it, too).
ii)
i’ve decided to take up space in the world again,
to make myself part of it, join in.
but i’m like a wobbly child strapped to a car-seat
on a long nauseating journey to the beach.
a child clutching a puzzle book in their
The damage is done by AmbushRealityLeader, literature
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The damage is done
The damage is done,
I have no one
No one to smoke
midnight cigarettes with
No one to ask
the question "what if"?
No one to hurt
When I need something to break
No one to blame
For my stupid mistakes
I know the damage is done
But why do I feel that I have won?
I.
sarcasm leaks out of my mouth
similar to the way
blood flows from a wound:
fast, relentless
II.
i have the same fascination with love
as a small child may have with butterflies:
i know i'll never catch it but
i chase after it anyway
III.
awkward, adj.
embarrassing or inconvenient;
caused by lack of social grace
IV.
piano music isn't piano music unless it
sings like a minstrel on a cold rainy day
the notes sharp with melancholy and discord
as eighth notes and metronomes fall around me
in a serenade to the angels we will never behold
V.
thorns may remind me of the feeling i get when i see you: pain
but the petals, soft as down, keep me
I.
I think in poetic verses.
Anything can be my muse.
I think too hard on how to capture
this moment in black ink
I forget to live in it.
II.
How will I ever become a writer
if I don't even believe in my own abilities?
If I want to make a name for myself,
shouldn't I at least believe I can?
III.
I have an addiction.
At first it was manageable
just a few minutes a day,
but it slowly got out of hand,
10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour.
Now I need more, more, more.
Late nights isolated in my room,
sitting in my bed with heavy bags
under my eyes but not ready to sleep,
terrified of what it's done to me.
What DeviantArt has done to me.
IV.
"Wh
With the beauty of angels
and the wickedness of the devil,
faeries are said to be the
children of heaven and hell.
You, my dear, must be a faerie
with a frightening beauty
and the power to twist my heart
into making me love you so.