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2.4k · Mar 2022
knowledge is
Grace Mar 2022
you don't own the things you know
as knowledge does
2.1k · Apr 2021
the girl and her avocado
Grace Apr 2021
she likes to draw
and paint
and she likes her avocadoes.

she is afraid of the dark
avoids people in the park
and she likes her avocadoes.

her hair is copper blond
and this girl is ever fond
of green ripe avocadoes.

she has more fluorite
and lepidolite
than avocadoes,

but man oh man
does she love avocadoes.
and she really wants water right now.

hehe she told me to write this - prompted by 'I want mangoes' by shamamama
1.9k · Jan 2021
Terrible French
Grace Jan 2021
Je pense, soulement.
Je me souviens les jours de toi.
Pour quoi?
Je ne sais pas.
Je t'adore. Je sais que tu sais ça mais je dis-le anyhow.
I know it's all wrong. Pardon my French.
1.7k · Feb 2021
Daughters of Antipodes
Grace Feb 2021
The destructive daughter
and the delicate one.

The blunt daughter,
and the passive one.

The rageful daughter
and the sad one.

The out burst daughter
and the collapse-in-on-itself one.

The always apologizing daughter
and the always receiving them one.

The destructive daughter
and the delicate one.
destructive - me
delicate - her

she is the moon and I the sun. And every month I leave her and run. That is why she becomes the new moon.
1.6k · Mar 2022
muse
Grace Mar 2022
that song is so beautiful
and the strings make me cry
but I forget that an instrument needs to be taken care of too
in order to sound so wonderful.

it is soothing to see them,
taking care of one another.
1.6k · May 2021
Cherry Blossoms
Grace May 2021
Blessed Ostara and Beltane,
as the sun shines and the earth rains,
let me let go.

Let me cleanse my feet in fresh soil
and kiss the wind with my whispers.
Let the world take it all from me
so I may bloom anew.
1.5k · Sep 2021
cerulean
Grace Sep 2021
I ask you one thing:
ecstasy or misery -
which is prettier?
1.3k · Dec 2021
i love you
Grace Dec 2021
i know regret
and it tastes very much like grief
i know love
which, often,
is the same colour as relief.
1.2k · May 2021
Poison of society
Grace May 2021
I think she isn't sick from sour cream,
but sick with sour dreams.
1.1k · Jan 2021
Compromise
Grace Jan 2021
Compromise feels
only like my complete demise;
I am solely right.
"Our battles were epic and one-sided." Lol Scout, same.

Part 2 of the Her Haiku's collection.
P.s, anybody know how to italicize text?

Compromise always in my head was like: Calm-promise. Maybe I should call this one that instead and stop having a conversation with myself down here in the grey words. Sorry the cringey poet is out right now. Nobody worry, I'm as just as sane as Luna.
1.0k · Oct 2021
painted faces
Grace Oct 2021
even with these masks,
there's always someone who sees your face.
even when I close my eyes, I am still going.
even when I cover my face, someone still sees me.
even when I'm learning how to listen, who is listening?
1.0k · Jul 2023
bird haiku
Grace Jul 2023
the unrooted soul
who knows only wind as home
and land as its cage
969 · Oct 2023
the drink haiku
Grace Oct 2023
tired eyes that feel
all the dreams that are too real;
coffee breaks the spell.
769 · Apr 2021
Change
Grace Apr 2021
I am afraid of change -
it's so relative, so hard to prepare for.
I might like it better if it came less frequently,
if it waited just a day more so I could enjoy myself in the thicket of catkins.
Or gave me a notice so that I'd know it would be goodbye.

Spring comes again next year, I know this. But too fast we move on from the mourning of Winter. Slow your sunshine, pull the winds back, give me one last song of sorrow before you forget about her and move on.

Like we always do, always moving on, leaving it in the dust.
Take a breath first so I can at least let it go.
768 · Aug 2021
Beacon
Grace Aug 2021
he glowed more than any god ever could - ever dared to;
it was no curse that I could not look away.
745 · Jan 2021
here's to all of you
Grace Jan 2021
today, i dont want to do anything. just stay in the dark living room in my pj's and read some of your poetry.

too bad i also did that yesterday.

****.
this site has so many nice people on it who are so supportive for everyone. love you all
721 · Dec 2021
the things you've taught me
Grace Dec 2021
I will see your name when looking at the stars
I will remember you by your smile
I will hear you in silence
and feel you alone
and miss you
but know that you will never be forgotten by me

because the things you've taught me
they have redirected me
you gave me a wisp of your being
and that is so ethereal to me
706 · Feb 2021
Snakes
Grace Feb 2021
Snakes.
Some are poisonous,
but only when they bite you.
Only when you make them.
pfft what it's not like I'm slytherin or anything...
673 · Nov 2023
Winter is Coming Haiku
Grace Nov 2023
With effort, relent!
The ice will fracture Fall's bones -
the Winter's consent.
Frost may not repent,
prepare for hibernation -
a loving lament.
655 · Jun 2021
Isn't it?
Grace Jun 2021
lovely is such a good word. maybe my favourite.
639 · Jun 2023
lasts
Grace Jun 2023
too many things
to miss
isn't that a good thing though?
Grace Apr 2021
there is no room
on the moon
when you're floundering
in doom.

there is no reason
for the season
to stay
for your treason.

there is no way
I'd deny
I'm in love
when you cry.
i hate that you hurt though dear
594 · May 2021
Mothers Day
Grace May 2021
Happy Mothers Day/Guardians Day

To all the moms/parental figures who give the world and ask for nothing in return (but deserve the universe)
586 · Mar 2022
the water
Grace Mar 2022
i love this quote:

the water sustains me without even trying
the water can't drown me, I'm done
with my dying

johnny flynn and laura marling
524 · Jan 2021
Drunk
Grace Jan 2021
I've never been drunk
on alcohol before.
But I have been drunk.
522 · May 2021
Les Arts
Grace May 2021
When you are a musician
you have every songbird and melody.
When you are a philosopher
you have every question like clockwork.
When you are an artist
you hold every delicate stride and stroke in your soul.
When you are a poet
you have every avidity with words.

When you are a person,
what do you have?
507 · Oct 2021
alto
Grace Oct 2021
he eats all the guilt like inhaling air
i wish he would taste his innocence too
501 · Jul 2023
water haiku
Grace Jul 2023
water dreams of space
so the moon can pull it close
into an embrace
15.07.23
492 · Jul 2023
dreamer haiku
Grace Jul 2023
we are young dreamers
walking in a wakeless plane
unaware of dawn

until the light breaks
490 · Mar 2021
Nightmare
Grace Mar 2021
I don't even know anymore.
I had this dream, it was peaceful
and when I woke up I knew it was just a dream.
But now that I think about it, it scares me.
What if...
what if it takes her?
485 · Apr 8
eclipse
Grace Apr 8
exhausted, I bend to kiss
the burning dark,
I find your lips
blinded by this cold eclipse.
473 · Aug 2023
sweet haiku
Grace Aug 2023
blue days follow through
and I remember the taste
- sweet - of loving you
07~08.23
465 · Oct 21
autumn hymn
Grace Oct 21
leaves loosen from limbs
and the smell of apples sweetens the air

I follow you to the top, to the peak. You  laugh and I know
we are for each other in this life,

despite the weather, the path, the season.
436 · Jan 2021
Metamaids and Merphors
Grace Jan 2021
I used to be happy
Ignore the heavy things.
Tread and tread and pretend that nothing was below me.

But there are things that lurk.
Monsters and darkness.
While I sank, I sung out about how well I could swim.

And then she was sinking
And I learned how to swim
But I never taught her.

Just keep swimming
I tell her.
soon enough the mermaids will scare them away
I hope she believes me.
I hope she is strong enough to withstand the wretched currents.
I love you. I hope that is enough.
Please keep swimming because soon enough the mermaids WILL come.
433 · Jan 2023
my ring
Grace Jan 2023
i want to
unfold
and be read
like dead poetry
all i mean to say is still inside
like we don't know 70% of what's in the ocean
428 · May 2021
and my tears to the swans
Grace May 2021
And in your eyes, you breathe into me a new dream,
I'd give my soul to the loons and my hands to the lions
for that moment where our eyes meet.
426 · Jan 10
wind haiku
Grace Jan 10
confess to the wind,
who knows only of freedom
and bears no burdens.

(I am your breeze)
426 · Jun 2021
Legacy
Grace Jun 2021
The old poets write of archaic heroes;
the old poets sing of tragedy and pain;
the old poets know of woe and triumph;
the old poets make words that forever remain.

The new poets dabble in life and in darkness;
the new poets scribble their madness on page;
the new poets read what the old poets wrote;
the new poets write out of freedom and rage.

I write to relive and I am doomed to re-die
if only the emerald would leave my eye,
and stain every plane of my memory's mind,
and promise every secret my future might find;

I write to give slivers of salt to the world
I long for the knowledge that I am doing this right
I write for the forlorn fire in the palm of my hand -
but it's not like I'll ever expect to understand
what words become and what they became of.
419 · Jun 2022
endless
Grace Jun 2022
time is a tunnel
419 · Apr 2021
cont;nue
Grace Apr 2021
set your own pace
beat yourself
try again
you can do it -
will do it
if you give yourself the right attitude.

how do you think all these flowers survive through late snow?
they shrivel up and begin dying
but don't give in.

and with their perseverance, the sun rewards them.
408 · Apr 2021
It matters
Grace Apr 2021
"I would've," she said.
"- but they were busy with someone else."
Drowning in six feet of water
isn't better than drowning in twenty feet of water.
Your troubles aren't invalid.
Call for a lifeguard and they'll come and help you to shore.
404 · Nov 2021
Ethereal
Grace Nov 2021
you are a star, surely past your name;

and that is me: I am born of dust, you of light.

402 · Feb 6
waltz of flowers Haiku
Grace Feb 6
sunlight's strung the bow,
and the kiss of the wind strikes
the waltz of flowers.
la lumiere du soleil met des cordes au arc,
et le bisou du vent touche
la valse des fleurs.
399 · Jan 2022
corona prophecy
Grace Jan 2022
the protagonist
suffers loss of sanity
in this pandemic
392 · Nov 2021
to be
Grace Nov 2021
my dowry is in the palm of my hand
and you cannot see it
but hold it and feel its worth.
383 · Jun 2021
confessions02
Grace Jun 2021
When I first came here I didn't know how to write and I think I still don't know what I'm doing.
378 · Jun 2023
lilacs
Grace Jun 2023
the lilacs in bloom
remind me of spring's shortness;
neither do they last
378 · Sep 2021
Immortality
Grace Sep 2021
Eternity is
like fruit that never ripens;
endlessly bitter.
377 · Jun 2023
fallacies
Grace Jun 2023
I must have known
the cold face of the sun
I forget how we are strangers
374 · Jan 2021
Before the Crows Wake
Grace Jan 2021
Before the crows wake
I'd better collect the light
the moon has left me.
Full moons are powerful. But I realized that the moon is always full. We just don't see it that way.
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