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12.0k · Apr 2016
Kinsperson
Rose Apr 2016
I love you
a million stars and moons
Of planets we can't see

Be true to who you are,
Because you are amazing.
"I'll eat you up I love you so"
8.2k · Jul 2016
Blocked
Rose Jul 2016
Isn't it lovely
When pervy men
Pop up in your DM box
And try to make you feel
That you are a failure

Hmm
Someone's pen
Is thicker than his ****
Rose Aug 2012
just because I love you
well it don't mean I won't leave you

aw ****, what's life without love?

Hopefully you'll see me
someday
shortly

I know you can see the red light in the stars
Are you breathing finally?
with Faith, you'll see
all I can do is keep you in love with me
Relax with me, you'll see

I am the downpour that makes your petals bloom
I will fight till the fall for you



from the patient soil we will see
the king blossom with his seed
6.2k · Nov 2011
Blueberry Muffins
Rose Nov 2011
This is how to eat a muffin
Flip it upside down, unwrap the wrappings
Nobody starts at the top in this town
Sip a skinny vanilla latte
Text your ex, start wondering
He'll try you later, of course he's busy.
What were you thinking?
In what world could this have worked?
Your existence is physical, is there any purpose you serve?
An actress, a dentist, a model, a florist, a teacher, a songstress
I hate to list projects unfinished
This is how to eat a muffin
You take one bite
and leave the rest as a metaphor
4.2k · Jan 2015
warning, warning, warning
Rose Jan 2015
through all the heartache
through life and death
through all the chaos that lives in my head
we can all be certain of one thing
i was much more clever when i was on ******

way too often i imagine a life where i've never met him
(i never end up any place good)
but in all these imaginings
i always feel like me
i always feel like i'm enough

so now can you un-save me?
3.7k · Jan 2015
drunk sex
Rose Jan 2015
oh boy i*
fight so hard to stay awake
as your fingers trail across me
you make my skin shudder and shake
you see my day was long and muddy
i can't quite wash it all away
liquor didn't rinse it either
but please don't turn away cause

i can make your earth quake
disrupt precious soil and tear patterns in the roadway
a tornado to the heavens and a free fall down on me
i won't let you regret coming home tonight

baby
please
2.6k · May 2015
Dear Preteen Girls
Rose May 2015
Behind me and my daughter
In line for the Ferris wheel
Perhaps when you are older
You will find breastfeeding
Is the least nasty thing
Your child will do

Wait for the projectile *****
The diaper explosions
Snot handed to you
So kindly like a present
Wait for the strangers to ask you
"So when do you plan to get your body back?"

My body never left
It did the most badass thing
Any body could ever do
What have you done
With the beautiful sharp mind and body
God has given you?
Used your eyes and words
To judge other women
Looked at your tummy in the mirror and thought
"I should be skinnier."

It is a shame,
Women ought to stick together
So I'm going to tell you now
Your bodies are amazing
Magical, you might say
Life giving, you're **** right
Do not judge me
Say that my nursing toddler is nasty
Look at her face,
How can you be so cruel?
For ***** sake,
It's just a ******
I can see more of you
Pre-thirteen
In your crop top and skinny jeans
Than you can of me
2.1k · Dec 2011
snow white windows
Rose Dec 2011
"leave me alone-"
she says,
as he's reaching
for her shoulder.
little does he know
really anything
about her



outside the rain turns into snow.
cars crash into one another
and family members burn together.
if only a few extra flakes had fallen,
the flames would have extinguished

i am childish in that way

now we are learning*



                       this wave will crash
                         so ******* you
                  swim faster to the shore
sand in your grasp and already you're drowning
1.9k · Dec 2011
Lily of the Valley
Rose Dec 2011
We take the night
Flourish when our minds are most at ease
In between the artsy and the ghetto,
It's gonna take some doing to really change
Maybe if there's someone else
Who isn't too young to save, too irresponsible
We'd be taken to a more realistic edge
Get down and face it,
We don't need as much
As we think we do

Here we are, and here we go

I've been trapped
Lost in a cage
Planning for a great escape
But whether or not
It could happen to me,
I really can't say.
Today you're where I'm at
Where I want to be -
This can happen to me,
I believe I believe

We've investigated a thousand new names
like what I've got isn't good enough for fame
Surprise, surprise - money buys everything,
Actuality and Individuality
it's a state of realism we can't escape
Looking, you don't find flaws in anything
but you know the difference between
poetry and a shallow being
Let's be real here, crazy, let's be real
we feed off of one anothers intricacies
A beauty in ecstasy and believability
I've tried to melt into someone else
Then before nothing made sense
until you, impossibility

There's nothing to compromise
It's just you and I,
fitting
I'm not numb,
some would find that irksome
but I'm glorified in the feeling

I find that place on your chest
That beats like a bomb
A keyboard synthesized to play my song
With every breath you grow lost
Confused by each tear
A lapse in judgement, in character
I don't fear, I don't fear.

I have my fingers pressed into you
Like it means something-
"Don't you see?"

We'll be more than we ever expected could be.
1.9k · Jun 2014
exboyfriend
Rose Jun 2014
I lost me when I had you
Hadn't moved an inch when you
Came back around
Underneath the porch steps
Small enough to fit into
Cracks in the pavement
I'd of done anything you asked

Flirt with me, come with me
I want to hear your voice
I want to touch your face
Try and fill an open wound
Leave feeling displaced
Never forget those eyes
Burning sunsets in my mind
I think I'd let you in
Again, again, again
but you're in prison
1.9k · Jul 2016
My friend disappeared
Rose Jul 2016
Your eyes like the ocean
Just not as wet

I've kept my wits about me
Till the current
I didn't believe things that happened
were real on the Internet

Not even the people were real

Till my friend disappeared
1.7k · Sep 2014
Ex bestie
Rose Sep 2014
Today I saw you
Tonight I forgot
1.7k · Jan 2015
Bubble Bath Distractions
Rose Jan 2015
"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure
but I don't know many of them."
Sylvia Plath

Unfortunately for me
I don't have a tub
Just a shrinking shower
Reminiscent of a coffin
It can be enough
If you put some music on
I let my little miss jam on the keyboard
More like slamming out a tune
Something my mother
Always encouraged me to do
But I never did
I had a bathtub then
i am a huge fan
1.7k · Nov 2011
The Barista
Rose Nov 2011
God forbid I hurt your feelings, so
I'll say this once, it was fun
...maybe, when? I was a kid
No longer do you make me happy
Not so sure you ever did

Leave me on, the coffee stays warm
Keep good watch, it's boiling hot
Wish you'd slip, I'd burn your skin

These things don't make us happy
They only numb the pain
Indifference got me good, thanks to you, babe
I wrote a poem about you
Here it is, your claim to fame
1.7k · May 2013
dandelion
Rose May 2013
i swear

flames once engulfed everything
and bombs blew away half the buildings
but somehow
we survived
look
despite all of it
small children
they play
birds
they soar and sing

this is a new beginning
1.6k · Jun 2015
an open letter
Rose Jun 2015
I was numb to
everything you
said or did
almost like I was
drugged or something
the time I got to your house
she was there before me
and I
should've ****** you
right there in the driveway
her sad crazy eyes
watching

instead you left bruises
from trying to keep me
1.5k · Mar 2014
cabin fever
Rose Mar 2014
Icy snow melted hot
Down the driveway
I stubbed my toe and
Bled all over your sheets
I'm fumbling through letters
Trying to find the right -
I wish I didn't see that
Wish I hadn't felt the sun
Icy snow melted running
Straight into the hand that fed me



I often think
that we
could be
the only ones
1.4k · Oct 2015
Pros and Cons
Rose Oct 2015
Eyes fallen through
The back of my head
Which rattles with every turn

Quicker thoughts and
Scribbled words
Ideas I've had before

I do what I want
And feel empowered by my
Decision making skills
Although the decisions are poor
And consequences linger

I feel I'm
Honoring my deepest wishes
But I'm just
Giving in to darkness
Listening to demons
writing gets it out and helps the feeling fade
1.4k · Nov 2011
Girls With Mermaid Tails
Rose Nov 2011
Girls with mermaid tails wear lipstick
Know which mistakes to fix
And fix them
They laugh at easily entertained boys,
Never care about butterflies
And swim faster than the fish
I
Broke out of a cobweb town
Bought a princess crown
And lately been trying
Not to lie and never be afraid
Life is not a stage and I want to tell you all
Play no predestined role
Fear is a wall that you can demolish
1.4k · May 2015
Pet Goldfish
Rose May 2015
Cleaning the fish bowl today
I realized
Not even goldfish
Enjoy swimming
In their own ****

Unlike you and me
We wallow in self pity
1.3k · Apr 2017
warrior princess
Rose Apr 2017
To me, you are love.
You are the quiet tenderness of a serene night and the bright excitement of a new day.
You hold the scent of sweet flowers knotted up in your curls, and the bite of the ocean in your scalp slick with sweat.
Tonight, you hugged your mommy tight. And I inhaled the scent that makes you you,
for the millionth time.
For my dragon slayer
1.3k · May 2015
Papa
Rose May 2015
I saw Death creeping
Licking his chops
Preying

I watched him
On his tip-toes
Polish fruit and
Smell old ladies perfume

To him the days are
Light and easy
Moments don't add up
Time won't get heavy

But when the clock struck 8:01
You went with him
Where to, I don't know
I wish he would leave us alone
1.3k · Jan 2012
Neutron Star
Rose Jan 2012
I know I don't need to push you
you've got the strength
in your own legs and knees
to get you as far into the sky
as your hearts been wondering

you'll dance in the stars
take them as partners, one by one
each will belong to you
they'll dip you down into breathtaking reality
where it's just me pushing you
toward dreams

the stars haven't to do with anything
nor does the sky in which they play
the swing on which you sway
it's not about what they think
I write where they can take you but
you've your own vision of success
and if you don't... well I, at most,
feel bad

it's just me myself I'm talking about
I could become a meteorite
were I to ever hit the ground
1.3k · Jan 2012
Words I Make Up For You
Rose Jan 2012
and so I'll catch the next train
ride a buzz to Tuscan, AZ
where everything looks the same
except the sunrise,
which always changes your mind,
into gold!
and although it's been sold,
you can still reattain
coaxed and waxed,
old souls
We're estranged

and when it rose that's when I knew
I'd always sing of you
sea swept over me
covered me in
hopeless romanticities
when it rose, I knew

I smoke my last cigarette
Fill my lungs with regret
and lunacies
an inescapable dream
I always knew it'd just be me
leaning against the door of an old Chevy
praying the heat won't **** me
but secretly hoping so
I feel it burning through the soles of my feet
something that was just meant to be
but the king knows his place
and I've no say

we're under the same watchful sky,
you and me
1.2k · Nov 2012
At My Dining Room Table
Rose Nov 2012
at my dining room table
a different language is spoken
everything is sweet
and nothing is broken
legs are crossed at the ankles
smiles hang in frames

these people from pictures
they're not yet burned
I've not yet heard

Oh, no, thank you.
Well, maybe a drink.
I've come a long way.


we don't seem so different anymore
breaking through the walls
floating down the steps
and crashing down the hall
they bounce around from ear to ear
or so I think
until they're here
1.2k · Nov 2011
Power Mouse
Rose Nov 2011
My fingernails scratch bright
red through your skin
Dig, dig, digging around
in your organs
Need to find that sore, swollen
power house;
Shelter of let downs and searches for
lifts out
I'll break every rib in this cage to set you free

Would you look at what my hands of red have
gotten in?
Assume the sun rises orange over
each mountain
The hungry showdown makes me feel small
as a field mouse
Spent the day with the clouds just to pray,
guess I'm devout
I'd rather be walking through doors than
jumping out windows
It doesn't work this way but I'd
break every rib to set you free
This poem has been turned to a song..
http://soundcloud.com/treeziie/power-mouse
1.2k · Nov 2011
My Brother
Rose Nov 2011
My brother, he was small once
But I don't remember that
I'm tough and he's big
(good thing cause in reality I'm freaked)
I love him even though he stinks
and on my birthday he dropped my cake
Mom shouldn't have given him the responsibility, what with his webbed hands and feet
He'll never forget it, neither will we
My brother, King of Swampy Pond
My brother the hippopotamus
1.2k · Nov 2011
Diddly About Dishes
Rose Nov 2011
The water in the sink is an ocean
To be conquered by explorers
The explorer is You
Deep sea diving for lost treasure
Pots, pans, a cup for measure
The soap and I will conquer you
1.2k · Dec 2011
That's That
Rose Dec 2011
You know, it's not bad
I thought I would be messed up mentally
but instead I'm succeeding - they call it reality
I can't lie and say I don't long for
the outdated admiration, insincere adulation
from your clientele  - embarrassed millionaires
Wasting what's left of their fortunes
to stash and squeeze
While I was caring what you would think,
they crafted a creation out of me

I like to
think about
the curve of my words
compared to the small of your back;
the dot over i
to the ones on your skin
the lines crossing t's
like those that run beneath your vision
Were
you any letter,
you would take the form
of a hook and a swoop in another direction;
a question never ending
That's
always
asking
"Why?"

I drink ***** as I write poetry
Focus on my handwriting to keep myself from
Wondering what you're doing
or what you'd think of me
Sipping my way out of my head,
Jack Daniels for breakfast
freedom from the distillery
1.1k · May 2015
love to hold you
Rose May 2015
love to hold you
while you are still
after the stars
sprinkle their dust
it hangs in sparkles
from your lashes
your skin still damp and pink
love to hold you
after the waves
wash over the clouds
all the days creatures
paint a navy sky
leaving tiny holes so
glimpses of heaven
can peek its eyes through
love to hold you
1.1k · Aug 2017
Spa Day
Rose Aug 2017
The guys lately been trying to tell me
To better who I am increase my productivity
I ask him how he got this way
How'd he work it out so easily
He's getting up in age, I trust him
He says "I didn't want to be a product of my environment
I didn't let my parents abuse destroy
I take the good with the bad and
Am grateful for every day I wake up alive."
He's getting up there in age so I trust him.

Me I revel in the pain
I'm more frustrated by the day to day but
My misery feels like a warm murky bath
It covers my skin and sinks right in changing my DNA,
Embraces the demon I'm becoming
I didn't edit this at all, judge me how you will.
Rose Jan 2016
hunger
like towering walls
of water

i won't give in though i
crave crave crave*


they won't let me get drunk
won't let me do drugs
won't let me do nothing
so nothing gets done


two miserly words
self sabatoge
1.1k · May 2015
Daisy
Rose May 2015
My mind is waging a war
With the old girl next door
She's full of joy and hope
Sunken in quick sand
Too thick to reach out a hand
And grab onto her rope

Life's little beauties
Have the power
To astound me

Life's little horrors
Have the power
To paralyze with anxiety

and
*I'd rather just feel nothing
1.1k · Jan 2012
Pine Trees Swimming
Rose Jan 2012
I'm listening to your foreign conversation
Distracting me from my study of mood rings
- repeating cycles, I should say.
A wide open view of blue greys
Behind pine trees
Density reminds me to reminisce
I shake my head
I think the kid who left - the lanky one
With glasses and greasy blonde hair -
Did it for the sake of chivalry - offering
His seat to me. I like to think this
But probably not.
Maybe he was late to class
And I Am Just
- well, What's your diagnosis,
doctor?

Thank you, everyone!
For all your existence
Some days I wonder how to find
Beauty in all of this - The joy is in
Acceptance, at the end of it
I saw a stream that ran into
A lake escaped into the Atlantic
and then drowned the entire Earth.
1.1k · Nov 2011
Catching fLies
Rose Nov 2011
I know how to tell a story, spin a web of half true truths
Catch a thousand flies with each and every ruse
Not wanting to tell a story to you, I have to find a way to say..
Last night after you left,
I hopped out of bed and got dressed
Scribbled on some eyebrows and lips
Went on my way with a guy I just met
Stumbled back into bed around six
Brushed my teeth when I woke up at ten

This is what I planned to say

Today,
You came over to shoot the ****
and I lied to your face about all of it
1.1k · Dec 2011
Love is Somewhere
Rose Dec 2011
The most of us
Upon realizing that we are purposeless
Are content with that fact
and existing as
Grace and Thankless Droids
aren't you smarter than that?

*it's all we got and you'll find it
only if you don't stop looking
it costs whatever it takes
someday, baby, someday
1.1k · Feb 2012
bombs of nonsense
Rose Feb 2012
whose life and love deserves to be held in my palm?
the trail i leave behind stains of you and mine
the heart is not a fragile glass,
it is a miscalculated bomb

alongside us,
the stars kiss the reservoir
inaudible thoughts
you press on the clutch
and gears start shifting
i am
the great white moon
you see
his wet wavy reflection

when something grips and takes you over
a fleeting thought of remembering
a post-season bird misplaced and depressing
one word they said that triggers your next
whatever it may be,
look at me
look at this place
look how hard i am trying
for sense to someday make

inevitably you are lost,
like a flower in the snow
but my darling, can't you see?

don't you know?

love is ticking
love is finding
and deactivating
1.1k · Jun 2015
Catholic School
Rose Jun 2015
Maybe we can go back
Try undoing the past
Where is the thrill of
Anticipation?

In the last grade of
Elementary
They allowed us
To sign our
Virginal names in
Blueorblack ink
I was ten, I
Had already written
My script then
I did it in
Permanent pen

There was no time to erase

Mother wasn't excitable
some days, she was
She tore up my script
My script after script
Every idea
To her
Just ****

And I'd begin
Again in pen
And then it just ends.
1.0k · Nov 2011
Passion Fruit Juice
Rose Nov 2011
Where oh where
does my passion lay? In a shoebox,
under the staircase? I’ve been looking all day,
I guess it’s better off this way..
To be missing eternally
rather than found and broken,
a curse that bounds when spoken,
these days I hardly mention your name.
Most dreams are fairytales,
I need to pretend if I want to achieve.
I am living in honesty
or I am not living at all.
My passions been pressed into the page;
transformed from a natural beauty into something useful.
1.0k · Nov 2011
Mass On Saturdays
Rose Nov 2011
the sun is a halo over the steeple
blinding cast on the winter snow
most are confused by a peaceful sleep
quiet now or the reality will show


is this how life as
an insider looks?
like disciples,
they gather only to disperse
loud sheep, starving

up out of my seat,
walk fast past the pews
stained glass windows,
cold smelly books in brown
wooden rooms

through the wet white terrain

where everything sparkles like crystals
my knees were bleeding, i cried
*take me home, take me home
1.0k · Nov 2012
Nobody likes their boss
Rose Nov 2012
Swallowed a fragment of a prayer
For an angel that's been pillaged by monetary gain
Not a shred of humanity remains

We can get by with just a couple of things
Like love, like faith
Like respect, hope and positivity
Do you see no worth in these?
How dare you think that way?
That we exist to serve you
That we are sailors on a ship of greed
Wouldn't you like to be happy?

You've been abandoned by your crew

And you always thought you were doing good

Ha
*******.
1.0k · Jul 2016
Flooding
Rose Jul 2016
To open this journal
My own excitement exposed
I'd say I'd
Picked the wrong book
To see exhausted, loud lettering
"Our Wedding"
And to hack at the list
Well,
I just felt
Like a **** floating
Almost sinking with the first wave of water
Then suddenly spinning in an uncontrollable whirlwind of deluge and certain death

Could I ever
Just maybe

..

Could I ever go back to a time
Before I caused such a mess?
1.0k · Apr 2012
just goin' to have fun
Rose Apr 2012
it is hard to write poetry
when one is in love
everything is a bouquet of roses, breakfast in bed
fairytale happy endings
not a life to illustrate with words
they've said it all before

do you want to read of my pleasantries?
there is nothing new
all of it is something you already know
good buddies, margaritas, familiarity

get out while you can!
why, I can't find a life worse than a rat in a cage!
and though bars are of steel

the beds are of cotton
we sleep like angels in heaven

I've found some sort of peace in
breathing easy
1.0k · Nov 2015
canopy
Rose Nov 2015
my words:
a parachute,
over your
Earth of
problems -
deflated and
tethered long
before landing
996 · Feb 2015
Seasonal
Rose Feb 2015
Come so hot but go so soon
Pads of our prints prune in the water
I'd hold you under if it meant
You'd be mine, forever
I've lost every step along the way
Praying you go back home with me
I bore you in the dead of winter
You were but a sapling
Clinging to splinters
I breathed love into you
Sweet, guilty love
I breathed smoke into you
Burning sweet, sticky lungs
You came so hot,
You were supposed to go so soon
But now,
I'm not sure what to do with you
993 · Dec 2011
Glimmering
Rose Dec 2011
Now don't you get too cocky, handsome
But there's a red sun behind your smile
Which you grind in your sleep while I
Dream silly dreams of you and me
For a change breathing easily

I said don't you get too cocky
But there's nothing I think of so fondly
As I write, its true
Blazing sun, yes beautiful
No planet can hold a flame to you

It is rare that I find within someone
A glimmer of myself
and that is what frightens me
I know how eagerly I leave
968 · Feb 2015
Tongue Tied Together
Rose Feb 2015
I like it when you
Come home and **** me
There's nothing left
In the world worth happening
And our skin to skin
Gives all the electricity
Needed to power the home we share

They say marriage is monotonous
Marriage is a dead end street
Baby we're in an ocean current
Never ending rip roaring waves
We moan in ecstacy, inhale each other
Sweet salty skin flavor lingers
Tongue tied together
I love you forever
Heating Up The Winter Sheets
946 · Nov 2011
Killer Art
Rose Nov 2011
looking at myself across the way in the mirror
think I'm coming down with a case of the quitters never win
and winners never quit-when they see they weren't winning from the beginning
they quit-looking at me, hopefully magically going to be becoming something
soon that's worth money- torn- all I ever got with money
was a blank stare in the mirror; a car parked, alone in the dark
words that feel like knives in my heart
what is the alternative?
I need this killer for my art
915 · Nov 2011
Helpless Aviation
Rose Nov 2011
There is a place in my mind
But oh, how time flies
So I'm left to think
I’ll never get there
Been feeling this lame winged way
Since I first heard myself say
“Move at your own pace,"
My face sits against the window pane

There’s that bird,
Perched on the other side of the glass,
Worm in mouth
How is he going to figure this out?

Trapped with the fear of losing his dinner
Hopping from one branch, back to the other
My insatiable heart sings, sun shines through
We see the world beyond the trees, nest in view

I'll never get there
The feathers fall
He’s ****** too.
878 · May 2016
different all the same
Rose May 2016
Oh I store my food like
The hummingbird
Living 'neath a hawks
Radial safety

I throw caution to the wind
But not without observing
The chances of survival
Should I take this opportunity...
Not without
the careful consideration
I've thrown humanly to the wind

I am not the United States
I am the mountains
We are all seasonal things.
I'm still shaking March from my shoulders.
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