#young poets
Deafened ears
Silent eyes
Rippled waters—
Reflecting murky skies
What remained
Laid in sullened tune
—With calla lilies
In godless demise
My organs wrung
Then clotheslined—
Like some
common rag
Discarded lungs—
Airbags for the worms
And my
once sharp tongue
Sits ’tween teeth
Delicately dead
This damp cavern
Punctured by
A singular watery tree
The branches splay
Beams of light
Where I lay—
Skin haloed
in mossy wreaths
Flowers before dusk
Curling from darkness,
How you shrink
So timidly inward
You fill yourself
With seas of fears
Though occupying
Minimal space
I would
Kiss your petals
If you
Loved me
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Some nights I crave release
In loosed muscles
Over the beaming lights—
Polluted city skyline
Standing atop a tightrope
Roaming like a minor god
My insides disemboweled—
Numbing immortality
I want to linger in apathy
No inhibitions,
without criminal feeling—
Lonely contentedness
Breathing with intention—
Aeolus, commanding wind
My soul is drunk
Filled to the brim—
With hopes and dreams
Peace with the worms,
Consciousless things
How I’d like to join them
In holy matrimony
With the earth
As the skies weep
Crank me
Jack-in-the-box
Cricks of rusty parts
As music tinkles
Softly
Through floorboards
Dusty as the attic
And the locked chest
From where it came
Your fingers could
Draw lines
Into the age
Of that wooden box,
The one
With a precarious lid
It delights in your touch
Waits for the skip
Of your heart
When anticipation
Is empty
And
P O P
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.
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The spring dashes
Firmly into your eye
A lone thing
Without a clown’s company
The Struggle for Originality
I found myself knee deep in poetry
Not knowing which direction to go
I settled, staying ’neath nonexistent leaves
Telling myself I’ll remain
Until the frost becomes much too cold—
Then, I could write of my
Fucking goddamn depression
Bass drop
It’s three o’clock in the morning
And I’ve been kissing individual framed photos
In my shrine of Poe Whitman Plath
I harbor such a pretentious heart
I could not bear to part with mediated prose
(Man these tumblr poets
And their penchant for simplistic thought)
—I’ve drunk so much irony in my tea
I can no longer taste its potent punch
I am so well-versed in the craft,
All my alliteration attempts are absolutely art
My words are like stars, night, dewdrops, love, eyes, the sunskyandmoon
I can write so fresh, I’ll write of farts
I’ve nothing to prove, nothing to lose
Whether I rhyme or not—
Conform or not—
There is nothing to gain
In being a contrarian.
lowercase
the utility
so poetic.
like i’m
merely speaking
words
words
words
bared meaning
the art
in the obvious
thanks rupi kaur
not sure
if i hate you
but boy,
do i love
red wheelbarrows