1923 - Hello Poetry

1923 Jul 2018

bookends

honesty
honestly, she says
"this [book] has meant so much to me
and it's not like it ends terribly
just not how you would think"

she hands me over Silverstein -
a copy of The Missing Piece
with that note she wrote inside for me

and it ends just like you'd think

The Missing Piece is a book by Shel Silverstein about a circle with a slice of itself missing. It sings about the missing piece and rolls along in search of it. After finding pieces that don't fit, it eventually finds one that fits perfectly. With the missing piece, the circle can roll faster than ever - but it can no longer sing and it can no longer slow down to appreciate the things it used to (like the company of a worm or butterfly). The circle discovers it felt more complete without the missing piece and begins singing and rolling happily on its own.

1923 Jan 2018

in bloom

We do not need to be in bloom
to be worthy of space - of room
on this planet. So on the days
you feel bitter - stay here;

please stay here

Nothing in season
can stay sweet all year.

#bloom #love #life #loss

1923 Apr 2017

(my heart)

if you think of me sometime,
know you are running circles
on the outside of my chest
and a piece of me is missing by no coincidence

#love #life

1923 Jul 2016

Honey

she says my lips taste like honey,
and she likes honey in her tea. i say honey
isn't for everybody and she says

as it shouldn't be

1923 Nov 2015

she fell in love with me

I wasn't her first.
Or her second. Or third. But I didn't need to be. I said
"I'm no good with words", and she said
"they don't speak to me anyway.
Anyway you were the first
to run your hands down my body, stop at my chest
and ask me if it hurts". When she said yes,
I told her yes too.
To this day she says "that was the moment
I fell in love with you"

1923 Nov 2014

Planets

Girls are from Venus and boys,
from Mars - we are strategically apart though we are both
made of stars. There are 6 other parts
to our solar system listed if you listen in class. People are not transparent
glass, we are not to be seen through and reduced
to white or black or skinny or fat or boys or girls. There are 6 other planets,
ten trillion undiscovered worlds
of grey. It is okay
to be something else, you are still

something else.

#grey

1923 Sep 2014

Untitled

I spent forever searching
for a girl whose lips tasted like Cherry Coke with wisdom
seeping out of her throat as she spoke

#love #life