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  Nov 2020 Katie
elaine
you never asked to read my poetry
maybe that was the sign.
i told you i wrote for fun,
you shrugged and moved on.
red flags went up everywhere, but i didn’t bother looking
Katie Sep 2020
If there is no dirt in the pockets, washing no sooner enables a selection of the same thing neater. If there is no kneeling or skidding or tattering there is no reason for making the exchange. A messy occasion makes the long climb worthwhile. Habitual, mandated, stains the ordered chaos of it all.
  Feb 2020 Katie
ArielMarriel
They will tell you
All poetry has been written
There is nothing new
Under the moon
But let me tell you
They don’t know you
You are as unique
As the DNA that exists
Within your frame
The ripples on your thumbprint
No one ever had the same.

Listen...

You have something to say
Say it proudly
Say it boldly
Never let them scold you.

Never let them make you go away.
I love it when someone tells me to keep writing. You should keep writing too!
  Nov 2019 Katie
Chris Saitta
She walked out of the watercolor storm of a fresco
Like a cowl-bound form in a light drizzle of rain,
Her mosaic tiles of ancient lovers’ eyes, ceramic-borne,
Just as her hips held the curves of the urn, kiln-fired,
The coiled heat of Greece still stinging through her flesh.

For her, the treetops had been the summoners of storm,
In kind, she poured down the wet grove of her hair, electral,
Pantheress of humid breath and fanged flair of lightning,
Tamed once in the cloudy cage of Pentelic marble of the Parthenon.

But the world piled dust before her, baiting with its groveled roads,
For her black mullings, much-tasted rain, and heaven’s leaves to fall.
If only the Michelango-to-come had carved the clouds of her
For the light to remain, shining its centuries,
Then maybe the thunder would have been left undone.
  Jun 2019 Katie
Catie
Lost yourself
Tossed yourself
Out the ******* door

Where you went
Who you are
Kicked across the floor

The one I know
The one I love
Is nowhere to be found

It’s like I took your heart
Ripped it out
And smashed it on the ground

It’s not my fault
I know I can’t
Control the way you heal

I never can
And never will
Feel the way you feel

Now you’re gone
You’ve lost your spark
I never want to call

I tried so hard
To keep you here
I gave my ******* all

Too bad
So sad
You had to go and change

Now it’s me who’s gone
I don’t feel bad
Was never playing games
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