
You are my favorite poem,
dear. But you are so unwritten.
Jan 16, 2020
Jan 16, 2020 at 2:59 PM UTC
My ankle is infected and I’m in
walking class
straight out of marching band.
A whole show
two whole hours
four days straight.
Marching
Dancing
Walking
I wish my legs would just give out.
Like my mind.
Sep 20, 2019
Sep 20, 2019 at 10:56 AM UTC
He seems sad today.
Maybe his cat died,
or his girlfriend left,
but there’s a sadness in him.
But he still smiles big and
teaches with his big, open
arms.
Sep 18, 2019
Sep 18, 2019 at 11:32 AM UTC
My face goes a deep red,
melting in like the slap of skin,
leaving tension and darkened marks.
Wow, more.
His hands are perfect,
tighter.
like a noose, but you
give me life.
Aug 23, 2019
Aug 23, 2019 at 12:12 AM UTC
The prickly surface.
Wow.
My fingers always find my way to you.
But your longer arms,
Wow.
Hold me while we watch
Freedom Writers.
Aug 21, 2019
Aug 21, 2019 at 11:15 PM UTC
He’s a big man,
but he’s gotten smaller.
His smile and perks are radiant this
3-minutes-past morning.
He shines through even though
the thunder is slamming
down on the roof of
the labyrinth that is the School.
He’s really cute,
in that stylish, yet masculine
man way.
I’m really glad he’s here.
He makes it better.
Aug 20, 2019
Aug 20, 2019 at 1:06 PM UTC
I can’t wait to meet me.
I hope they’re happier.
But I am happy also.
I’m sure we'll get along just fine.
Aug 15, 2019
Aug 15, 2019 at 11:30 AM UTC
Choir room.
Cold marble floors and hard plastic chairs.
Blue.
Just like me.
But he’s there,
I can see him, I can feel his
scorn harshly across
the room.
I can smell him, even after filling
my nose with others.
His smell.
I love it but it’s hurting me.
I’m gonna explode in here,
I need to leave.
I take a bathroom break but I come back and his smell is ten times stronger. I wanna cry. I also want him in my arms.
But he doesn’t want me,
and that’s fine,
but that "second chance" always
sits in the back in my pocket,
Whether it’s the second or not.
And that’s probably the worst part.
I love him.
Aug 15, 2019
Aug 15, 2019 at 11:29 AM UTC
I look to you a smile.
Why is that?
I don’t even know your last name.
But I turn to you
in the middle of our
geometry lesson and that
stubbly face and gap between your teeth,
I always smile.
Aug 15, 2019
Aug 15, 2019 at 11:20 AM UTC
I don’t like happy poetry.
People loving and laughing and smiling.
I like it when people twist through their
ever existing thoughts and manage to
tear out shreds of the universe.
I like it when people cry so hard they wake up
the next day feeling like they could climb a mountain.
It’s not healthy. But poetry is life.
And a happy and perfect life is boring.
I hope you’re happy. I hope you’re sad. But I hope it’s the best sad. Get sad, write some good poems. I’d love to read them.
May 7, 2019
May 7, 2019 at 11:14 AM UTC