Zara - Hello Poetry

Zara Jul 2020

You utter this word every time you leave. Your perfume lingers, but you do not. You are cut off by the slam of the door you shut behind you.

    You and I, we have never said goodbye. Even though the sneaky word escapes our lips sometimes.

    But, no more! For from Death, I am reclaiming custody of Goodbye and this romantic notion of “only in death do we say goodbye” I will happily trade for her.

    She may have snored like a trooper, made tea super bitter, been a looter .… but we never should have given her up.

    We have never said goodbye. But I want to start.

    I want to look into your eyes and ...

Mar 2019

Hannah Richburg

Cemetery

I thought if I could swallow the stars
I’d be as beautiful as the evening sky
I tried one night with fireflies
They burned my throat
Their legs striking at soft flesh
But my skin did not glow
No moon crawled from my eye sockets
I was left with corpses in my stomach
I soon learned I would only ever be
A cemetery

#beauty #night #stars #fireflies

Zara Mar 2019

does the sky pour love

I love you like a plant
loves rainy days
but you
are too grey a cloud
for me to plant
myself under

arm me
with an umbrella
and a raincoat
then only shall I go
searching for love

Feb 2019

Jashn

I sea you

"I can't live without you"
said the ocean to corals

"You're fin-tastic"
cheered a fellow fish

"I whale-y love you"
expressed the biggest mammal

Love is already in the water
It does not need materialistic things!

Love is everywhere and is for everyone.

Inspired by Earth day network Valentine's day activities.