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Grace Jun 2021
she washes her face with cappuccino cream
her eyelashes are showered in burnt coffee.
It's never been so hot in June
and it has been months since she's peeked at the moon.
One month left, she tells her reflection -
that is, one month left until summer truly starts,
one month left until papers are due and life is true
one month until you swim in purple stripes
and ticks take hikes
and lines catch pikes.
One month left and then you can let go and fall apart.
And then...
What will hope behold?
Grace May 10
Under the sun we are beautiful beings.
I want to spend my moments in this light with you
Grace Jul 2021
The sun is in my eyes,
she cries -
the girl, blind,
had looked behind to find
the yellow fire in the sky.
Her soul was lit but sight to die.

The sun, he reaches
every flowers,
breaches all the hours,

kisses life,
cuts like a knife
into the unsuspecting eyes
of nature's guise.

he knows no end
and no beginning;
envies those fickle stars and their fangled singing;
The sun is fire, surrounded in the ice
of ever nice,
solitary planetariums -

he finds and blinds
without reminds
that time and space
shall soon replace
his bright existence.
Grace Nov 2021
i am tired
of this old routine
what does it mean?
ask the mayor
or the minister -
im sure their answers might be sinister
but why should I care now
when i never have before
because i see a little piece
which is a little less plain
than the traffic and the cranes
building more for my complaints
i am strained
i am trying to retain
but the knowledge i have gained,
it is vain and retiring
i am fine
just fine
just tired and trying
Grace Aug 2023
blue days follow through
and I remember the taste
- sweet - of loving you
07~08.23
Grace Jun 2
the pelicans swoop
in a sea of cloudless blue,
tethered to the sky.
Grace May 27
does a voice ruin the wind?

I worry about the words I will say, forgetting that silence is charged with meaning,
and is easy to share with you.
hollow things become whole in the sunlight
Grace Jan 2021
I saw a world you
didn't know existed.
And yet, here you are,
teaching me.
Grace Mar 2022
I have  been grieving for you
every goodbye,

my entire life.
Grace Jan 2021
I sip away my sorrows
by drowning them in the heat of my tea
and pay better attention to the nice warm feeling of it sinking to the bottom of my stomach
rather than think about the stranger that wouldn't look away
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.
Grace Sep 2023
holy light
on my skin
cool air
patience thin

asylum walls
brick and stone
windowless,
so alone
Grace Apr 1
hands curl so tightly,
I can see the strain in your back as you pull yourself up
to the next hold.

silence falls across the hollow space
as we watch you in awe.
your hands rain white dust on our faces.

you turn sideways, press against the wall, dyno up and across,
and then you reach the top.
Grace Oct 2023
tired eyes that feel
all the dreams that are too real;
coffee breaks the spell.
Grace Mar 15
the strummer violently strums,
a glassy stare, and makes it into a graceful nell.
vibrations in the air tell me what she is saying in silence.
Grace Sep 2023
do it,
the duet
the one where you turn and I grin and you stop and I spin
and the music never stops and becomes white noise and then one with silence
and when we still the clocks stop but the music never slows
Grace May 2021
the fly which buzzes incessantly
gets caught first by fatigue.
Grace Nov 2022
blind me and tell me the world will end
but I could not give up all of this love
what a selfish fool...
Grace Apr 2021
in your eyes
a monster lies;

in your smile
a steep beguiled
beast.

in your hair
flames that flare
and cease.

in your mind
what will I find?
an ever delicious
feast.

and in your song
a siren call,
a melody ever
triste.
Grace Nov 2022
the friend means more
to lonely shores
and a little less
to me

but to her
the friend's a cure
and makes her smile
perpetually

the friend is kind
and tells the water
of how he loves
her waves

the friend is dearer
to the girl,
but also to me
he means the world
so glad they have one another <3
Grace Aug 2023
je ne parle pas le français
mais vous,
vous êtes couramment

j'essaye
cependant,
vous n'avez rien répondu
et je crois que le silence est ma réponse
le fantôme de l'espoir
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
Grace Nov 26
These waters shimmer with memory;
watch as they glisten, flowing on the cusp of this age and the next.

Earthy, brown, depthless pools;
lacustrine, surging on the precipice of pearly shores,
enriching me as I look in

and see the tide's truest nature looking back at me.
Ancient and clandestine, too,
the place where youth and wisdom dwell
my sister's eyes
Grace Apr 2
across from me
she is playing the guitar
and I love her
Grace Jul 2023
prom where we dance and dream of time between the music
our lives are suspended
as the lights flicker
and the song
slows
28.06.23
Grace Jan 17
this love,
or not so sure,
but something close,
naive, or pure

it is enough
to sustain me
into waiting for you,
until we

or I
am brave,
and the timing is just right.
Like a tidal wave,

I hope we will look
into each other's eyes,
and see the truth,
beyond the guise,

beyond just love,
meek or concentrated,
whatever.
it is just right.
Grace Jun 2021
It's sunny outside for the first time in a few days and I'm watching it while I type on my computer. Wasting the day. I'm tired of typing. I'm tired of being tired. I just want to be free.
Grace Jul 17
death takes over us,
with a kiss to break this spell;
the longest lover.
I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream...

You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream
Grace Nov 2021
armor, stiff
a sword and skiff
black eyes
beard bathed in blood
and it's never enough

the thrill to ****
like ink and quill
both bleed and brim
and slice and trim

the knight
huzzah!
the pages yell
below the stages
with wooden weapons
and hungry eyes

he'll fight for queen
or country
or fun
he'll drag you down
throughout the town

his mother prays
his father's gone
his brother's train

the knight
he has no guilt left to cry
a quilt in the night
will muffle his fears
drowning in beers
until the kingdom falls,
a knight's knighthood calls!
Grace Aug 2023
ages fade into centuries, yet somehow it is written:
someone will remember us, I say,
even in another time...

Grace Dec 2023
I speak so loudly
and in anger but you do not hear me
because in anger
I will hold my thoughts like breath
hoping, needlessly
that you will see and hear
my wrath;

only away does it subside into the atmosphere
Grace Jan 2021
I read this thing, it said something like:
I thought I was falling in love with you but I was actually just falling for love.
How that relates to me is crazy.
I fell for love, the idea of love.
And according to Atticus,
"Ideas were dangerous things to fall for."
Loving love gets lonely when there isn't redamancy.
Grace Dec 2023
A breath held;
a mollusk in the sea,
its shell
so small and fragile,
overtaken
by the wild ocean in a great, swirling motion.

It will be empty now.
Grace Feb 2021
I like every phase;
I like every wane and wax.
The pale glow of a night sky lit by her.
Her mellow halo of sun and starlight,
reflecting back what is given to her.
Turning the harsh heat into light.
I so badly want the Moon to kiss me with her dim, delightful glow.
I am her daughter, after all
I admire her every phase, especially the night after the full moon. The Night After.
Grace Dec 2021
you are resilient to the tides of this sea;


there are shells in the sand, unshaped
unlike the stones smooth with ages of storm
Grace Jan 26
The promise of more,
the ripening of fruit in the spring
the shore,
the succour the silence will bring
I'm yours,
like the bounty collected by kings,
the oars
will collide in the songs I will sing,
the chorus,
an echo, an ode, it will ring,
of course,
a madness to reach everything,
I'm sore
with the hope
and the promise of more.
Grace Oct 2023
I am unsure of who I am
and afraid of what I want

I love
I will try to better
Grace Apr 2023
the wheel spins
the thread is spun
she takes a step
fate has begun
she has succumb
to her own thread
and when its cut
she will be dead
Grace Sep 2021
Though she was illiterate,
her eyes closed and her mouth opened,
and from her lips sprang melodies that would easily appease Apollo.

Grace May 2021
I'm the monster who made her question her ability to thrive -
and now look at her, struggling to survive.
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
Grace Jan 2021
What is it you want?
Absent-mindedly pick them
to better decide.
"I love him, I love him not..."
Well, I love flowers so stay away from them.

Part 3 of my Her Haiku's collection.
Grace Jul 15
Feet and toes dipped into throws of milky waves and morning haze

and pelicans on a tiny isle,
and houses staggered over cliffs

along the shore, and seagulls drift
and hours wane, our legs yearn

to stand, to stretch, and we are swift
beneath the day, I want to burn.
07.14.24
Grace Oct 2023
sisters so akin like skin and bone,
thoughts aligned,
words not shared
but known
arms that feel like home

love that never walks alone
Grace Oct 2022
I have waited for your winds
to catch up with my sails
I have waited for your harbor
to hold my ship
I have waited for your plank
to push me overboard
I have waited to fall
into the depths of this ocean
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
Grace Apr 2021
Love is always fire,
pretty or pretty destructive.

Hate is always ice,
forever or ever cold.

Sadness is always an abyss
salty water, sinking, drowning.

And you and I are magnets.
I hold you close and then you are untouchable yet attached.
Grace Mar 3
do they know of the uproar,
the unrest,
the tirelessly shifting waves
of wind against the window?
So harsh, all through the day,
but it is a severity I can feel safe by,
watching the gusts and hearing the voices
while, in this alcove, everything is still.
Grace May 2021
I took a break on
trying. But tomorrow is
when I try again.
this is the future we were given - it's time we do something with our present
Grace Nov 2021
there are two sides of this moon -
one has always been cast in darkness,

and the other,
a mirror for the sun.

but she is ethereal, though she takes all light and dark

and she is steady, though the tides she turns are monstrous

and she is encompassing, for without her we would have been cast in our own shadows.

she is battered with asteroid collision, entrapped in this gravity,
protecting the mother that kills itself.
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