Nolan Willett

Sep 2023

Yuki

Enough

I stopped looking
for my other half
in other people
the moment I realized
I was already whole
within myself.
I find no shame
in my solitude
now that alone
I do not feel lonely.

#self #love #alone #lonely #solitude #happiness

Aug 2023

Kit Scott

soft

i believe in a gentle kind of love
all soft and soothing and
just right
when i am so terribly, irritatingly fragile
fingers running down my back while we lie
rib to rib, heart to heart
listening to the beat, and to the breath
and perhaps it is that, in this world of rough and tumble
of screaming and aching, to believe in a love kind and sweet is
a naivety but i find that
because of all this roaring outside our window, i much prefer
to think of that love sweet and kind
and us, tangled around each other, i think, yes

i find that i believe in a gentle sort of love

#love #gentle #kind #soft

Aug 2023

Aimée

Pen or Paper

No one ever listened better
Than my pen did

Taking note of every word
Off'ring suggestions of expressions
To explain how I hurt

No one ever remembered better
Than my paper did

Every joy I'd ever shared
Never forgetting the important
Or for what I really cared

No one was better than these two
Until I met you

Neither, it was you

Aug 2023

Eshwara Prasad

Mind

Ironies nested together in one place.

Nolan Willett Aug 2023

Untitled

When you try to fit in
But feel out of place
When you work a 9 to 5
But are tired of the race
Wanna hide away
But you leave a trace
Everything’s a game
With which you can’t keep pace
You look into a mirror
And see a hollowed face

Nolan Willett Aug 2023

Paracosm

A dreamer finds her way,
Well-her and her companions
She met a previous day-
They speak a strange tongue,
But that is quite okay;
They march through pastel
Landscapes
From place to place
From quest to quest
Another dragon?
Another princess?
(That seems a bit cliche)
But she is quite content
And I am no character
In this event
Just its chronicler
They slay the dragon
And take its scales to market
The princess, with a good degree of flair
Takes a ride with her companion
(Did I mention he’s a bear?)
The dreamer is offered lodging
By a grateful King
She steals his bed at night
(They kind of have a fling)

And the sun crests the horizon
And our hero goes to work
Her friends will wait for her tonight
Did I mention she’s a clerk?

#dream #dreamer #imagination #escape #fantasy #work