beauty is a state of mind by intricately-ordinary, literature
Literature
beauty is a state of mind
forgiveness is the
scent the violet leaves
on the foot that stomped it;
I am beautiful in remembrance:
I am beautiful
in a body two sizes too
large, in eyes dilated
with questions (eyes
you cannot name; gray
like the ocean, blue
like the heart, green like
the fever dream I cannot
wake from) I am the
hair of a lion, a wild
thing, ignition upon
tempted glance. I am the skin
you cannot name, always fleeting;
the chameleon
you always see
but never truly take in.
and I know a boy
carved of ivory sil
a minute in the spotlight by intricately-ordinary, journal
a minute in the spotlight
in which i perform a (not so) slam poem:
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it's still hard to talk about.
[not shown-- me shaking as i walked offstage.]
ps you guys i'm sorry i'm not responding to comments but i'm having issues with my dA again and i don't know if it's because my premium expired or because i'm really unadept at computers but i can't find any activity messages
Laying down parallel with the land
I'm still in sleep but understand
That when I wake I'll move so slow
To try and capture every small thought that passes through me
When others are around i'm pulled out of my waking slumber so fast
That I usually can't remember why
I ever wanted the night to last so long
Lately I am in between-
I can't sleep
And when the night is over
Out in the sun I have shining thoughts of you and
I cast a monumental shadow of the past
That wraps around the world
In the opposite way of the turning
And I turn to the past
In my mind I'm just sitting there in a tiny airplane
And I'm moving so fast but so slow
and I
accidental exposure by intricately-ordinary, literature
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accidental exposure
newton’s laws never
applied to you. maybe
tomorrow won’t come, and
we will always be a
few gestures short of
decryption. maybe
you are that glint
on the edge of the
horizon; intoxicated
flirtation of a star, of
a wish whispered
into skin that
cannot listen. I
traced so many apologies into
your spine; Dear Amy, my
body is an empty bookshelf
and I’m sorry I couldn’t
give you a perfect ending.
Dear Amy, you are more than
the hands that hollowed you
and made you quiet. Dear Amy,
stunted emotional development
is a blessing but I’m so scared I’ll
hurt you I’m so scared I care
about you, you’r
I just wanted to take some time to share some lovely works I have read on here. It was a rainy day today, and I had a cup of hot cocoa, this was the loveliest way to spend the afternoon. Thank you, all you lovely poets! :)
i've been staring at ceilings by XxLonerEyesxX, literature
Literature
i've been staring at ceilings
i keep staring at the cracks in the ceiling, waiting for them to become something recognizable.
but they're just cracks, & however long i stare, the tiny fissures stay random & unremarkable—with no meaning at all.
i fall prey to the art of apathy.
i often lie stoic & unmoving on my bed. thinking about how much it hurts—how it's just always been too impossible to let someone in.
then there's you, with your cracked open heart and well-worn smile.
a smile you use shamelessly when you're happy. & even when you're not.
then there's those moments. the one's where i'm feeling like the most invisible person in the room, & somehow,
I am
shaking ligaments,
tender machinations,
unrealistic ideologies of an
arbitrary cynicist.
[gaps between
human sympathy
are toxic; breathing
is a chore. there is
a careful warmth in the
combined effort of
necessity's unwanted
side effects.]
we are the forgotten.
we are the tangled limbs
and childhood stories for
a more sensitive future; we
are the longing, we are
the limitless.
we are measured
in the people we touch;
and I will love you
in the UV light of
hide and seek paranoia.
I love you in the red shimme
tonight I ask myself:
where are you going with all these names
in your pockets? syllables that taste
unauthentic in the desperate American
mouth.
repression is a series of images
golden streetlights
blinking
pedantically
earthbound angels breathing
flame, starving hands speaking
in tongues, glazed eyes
asking are you fucking okay
pale skin becoming moonlight,
reflecting and refracting and
the quiet understatement
of listless
lips.
mutual poison.