LEAK
In between your precise words
and your regimented actions
you spilt me one look
that drowned it all.
In between your precise words
and your regimented actions
you spilt me one look
that drowned it all.
Don’t I look like all the sins you’re going to commit tonight? I felt it too. Because feeling flows through me the way water runs through the planet, within it, over it, above it and into every creature that lives on it. It feels good to dissolve. It feels peaceful…
Actually after this, another string of random thoughts on breaking up and the afterlife. ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ You watch them speak to and of the one they love. And think, unflinchingly, that they don’t speak to or of you that way. The only part that hurts is the realisation that they once…
I wonder if anybody who reads this blog now, even remembers NovelRace. Two years may as well be twenty on social media. I don’t mean the book; everyone and their brother-in-law seems to remember that, much to my discomfiture. If you ever decide to write a book, my sincere advice…
Athens, sleeps outside my window tonight And so do you, a sea and a continent away No camera can capture, nor words describe what my eyes see In the city of the virgin goddess, a mortal woman sleeps alone. ~O~O~O~O~ A year later, in a city of no sleep and…
You are clarity, you are joy You are light, I am the lightness You are my doorway, as I pass into the world of being Friend, mentor, teacher, guide Inspiration, aspiration, unachievable ambition But as you merge with me…I stand at the doorway, holding you within me, you are also…
This is a fresh (and hopefully improved) version of the piece I performed last week. Rochelle did warn me that performance poetry shifts with every telling. Iβve also included the words below. I performed this at The Hive Open Mic yesterday. When my heart is a radioactive wasteland I find…