It was careful
Consideration,
Blue faded,
Black lines
Bloomed,
And for the first time
In three years,
I could breathe.
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Crashing
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Black, blue, breath, careful, Choices, consideration, crashing, life, LInes, placement, Poetry, Tattoos, three years
Complete
26 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Family, Final Day, Fought, life, Locked, Love, Poem 365, Poetry, Silence, Voices, Words, Worked
My final day has arrived
Despite the many words
That never found their voices,
Forever locked away,
Hidden from sight, from sound.
But, for the ones that worked
And fought their way to life,
I’ve acknowledged each syllable
Of your cries
And tried to comfort you.
Today was for life,
For living,
And I accomplished that.
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Pales
25 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Belonging, Christmas, Family, friends, Love, Poetry, Questions, shadow
No matter the highs
And lows
Nothing compares to
Today, to
Christmas,
Surrounded by family,
No questions regarding
Where you belong,
Just the sense of belonging
Putting the past eleven months
Firmly behind a shadow,
Nothing and no one
Is more important
Than today, than
Christmas.
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Stockings
24 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Bows, boxes, Christmas, Kids, Morning, Packages, Poetry, Presents, Stocking, Waiting, Wrapping Paper
Hanging in a line they wait
For boxes and packages
Wrapped in unnoticed paper
And tied with bright bows
To arrive.
But come Christmas morning
And the tiny hands descend
Not a one will survive.
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Coal
23 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Black, Coal, Emotion, Frosty, Humans, Liars, Poetry, Questions, Sculpture, Smile, Snowman
Is Frosty, carefully sculpted
By liars,
Made in our image?
Black eyes of coal,
Showing one emotion
While a smile graces his face,
A contradiction we love,
And refuse to alter.
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Plans
22 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Chance, Chaos, Common Ground, Given up, Luck, Plans, Poetry
I’ve given up
On planning
We always leave the chaos
Disheartened,
And unsuccessful.
But not this time,
With luck and chance
We found common ground.
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Loss of Comfort
21 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Arms, Comfort, Eyes, Glacier, Hug, Poetry, Voice, Words
I’m looking into your eyes
Hearing your words,
Your voice,
Yet, I’m wrapped in the arms
Of a glacier,
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Escaping the Silence
20 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Built, Human, Poetry, Shadows, Silence, Two-faced
Where there was silence
I built shadows,
I gave them smiles,
Personalities
And made them
Two-faced, difficult
And in turn, human.
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Misplaced
19 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: hidden, Poetry, Speaking, Talent, Truth, Words
Every word has been used
At least once,
And yet, the truth
Is as hidden now
As it was then,
Do I call that talent?
Or fear of
Speaking?
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Spasm
18 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: Circulation, Conscious, Contortion, Crushing, Fingers, Involuntary, Nervous, Poetry, Spasm, Time, Twisting
Can this contortion,
This crushing of fingers
Beneath their neighbours
Be both involuntary
And conscious?
Circulation has ceased
By the time I notice,
And yet I have followed
Each movement, counted
The seconds,
Minutes needed,
To unwind and collapse inward.
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