Wet the clay and place it down,Get to work on the shapeless mound,Excitement grows from first touch,Pictures in mind, manifest as such,For the jar is yet to begin its form,You’ve started again, as is the norm, The shape rises from delicate attention,Sides expand from lack of contention,Honest touches to create […]
Poetry
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An ageing fisherman sat on the shore,A moment to reflect on the times before,The pride in his vessel, the love he forgot,What he would do and what he would not, With the crumple of pages, an idea rejected,Hunched over his book, he knew he deflected,That leak in the raft was […]
Call me love and just steal my breathe,I’ll give it all ’til there’s nothing left,But an open hole inside my soul,The things I try to forget, Say my name and just keep my heart,Laser focused on a fresh start,Go lay to bed within my head,The things I try to forget, […]
I heard that you’re alone again,I hope you’ll be okay,It takes every bit of discipline,To not reach out and say,That I have raging thoughts within,For you to not suffer and to pay, The hypocrisy inside of me,Is fueled by different shards,All of which I calmly see,But disregarding them is hard, […]
The lonely fisherman sat idle on his raft,Comfort and composure engaging in his craft,Reeling in occasional fruits from the water-bodied God,He wrangled down inside himself and felt something odd, For where there was passion there was also a loss,For where his raft was strong there was also growing moss,And this […]
Record scratch, flip to side B,Unknown songs that are a part of me,Fresh sounds and unusual beats,I’m tapping my feet,This change of tune,It came so soon,Where was the crossfade,The suspension of self,Thrown into a genre of difference,Leaves me losing every sense, But the beat resonates,The tempo complicates,And I nod my […]
Look past the hills and you’ll see a new dawn,Open your diary and the pages are torn,I can’t hazard a guess as to why it all is,Or why your eyes look at mine and not his, All I do know is that loneliness is true,And there are always people just […]
With this poem I drew inspiration from the song Constellations by Enter Shikari. While the song reflects upon external issues (society, sustainability, politics), I enjoyed the idea of abstracting the internal (aimlessness, uncertainty, panic) to that of a train with no destination. The title was the first thing that came […]
You fill up my insides,I just can’t keep you out,You’re always on my mind,I just can’t keep you out, When I don’t have you,You’re always on my mind,A connection to my brain,You’re always on my mind, To feel you between my fingers,A connection to my brain,To press you to my […]
With National Poetry Month arriving in the US and the words of many pouring emotion into pages across the globe every day, I find myself looking in the mirror and asking — am I a poet? By defintion (according to the Oxford Dictionary) a poet is simply “a person who writes poems” […]