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Vanessa Johnston Jan 2021
found my body last night
the first time in months
after getting a covid test
and watching Eat, Pray, Love

unrolled my yoga mat
lit a candle
painted white my
unfinished canvas
made anew against all things fear

then slept and dreamt
of Hawaii

all in one breath
“Free your mind and your *** will follow” -George Clinton
An easygoing quote I've had in mind as of late
Vanessa Johnston Jan 2021
My words come from far away
I’d like to think
A place best kept in murmurs
Mere sighs from within

When I write it screams
Shouts from that land
Dusked by tenfold
When gold
I saw starlit

We are conduits
Essence grand
Emotions otherworldly
Outer space’s illusion

Humanity a vision
Reciting sacred
In hopes of deciphering
By potions of syllables

Be my purpose
Messengers of superstition
Begun in slumber
Ours only
Vanessa Johnston Jan 2021
Translucent girl
Translucent me
Translucent world
Translucent sea

Such avail
A translucent sought
For hidden pain
Pretended no more
A babe brought by waves
Could so be judged
Misery mistaken
Horribly taken

Translucent blasphemy
Translucent pride
Translucent tragedy
Translucent snide

When they turned,
Peaked a quick one
Drumming their feet
None could speak
For what three beheld
Translucently
A sight to see

Translucent pill
Translucent sheep
Translucent will
Translucent weep

Honeydew eyelids
Empty gaze a siege
You whisper
Am I real
Then go and gone you went

Translucent glory
Translucent faith
Translucent worry
Translucent escape

Invisible enemy
Transparent therapy
Accordion of luminous
Power indeed

Translucent demise
Translucent sworn
Translucent despise
Translucent reborn

I deem you no one brightly
Profusely
What is reality
Vanessa Johnston Jan 2021
Oh such ****** furiousness
in between the blank that takes seat
upon all their visages

riposte of an allured nature
disproportionate, fleeting feeling
the shake, shiver of their spines
makes way to sparse skies and
an illiterate disguise

fathom me, play me
adore me as you please
until the inaudible laughs the
mocking I so endure
inside, subsides
to meagerness

until, like the ground
my veins turn cold
and a cackle infinitely
escapes my lungs

sensibility became betrayal
just as fire,
flame so eager to please

at the least,
where I ****** rebuild now,
sunlight again begins
to render lasting days
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