Pepper Dove: Favorites

Apr 2020 Pepper Dove

Donall Dempsey

I LIKE TO SAY YOUR NAME

I like to say
your name

when you're
not here

turn you
into sound

conjure you out of
thin air

so that you appear
before me

dressed in sound
only

memory sketching in
the rest of you

as if sound
was just an outline

and love
colours you in

adding the voice last
so I can hear you say.

"Hello you..!"
and there you are

as present
as present

can be.

I like to say
your name

when you're
not there.

Apr 2020 Pepper Dove

the girl that can’t be loved

Apr 2020 Pepper Dove

the black rose

the girl that can’t be loved

she’s too strong,
she’s too much,
she’s too tough to love.

she’s too hard,
she’s too broken,
she’s not enough.

she’s imperfect,
she’s wild,
she’s lost in the wind.
she’s insane,
sending signs of chaos from within.
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hi.

#poetsfromtheislands #bahamas #bahamianwriter #bahamianpoet #spilledink

Apr 2020 Pepper Dove

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Apr 2020 Pepper Dove

Ciel Noir

✧

imagine
the sun in a deep black sky
just another star

Apr 2020 Pepper Dove

Anticipating Rain

Apr 2020 Pepper Dove

AnxiousOcean

Anticipating Rain

your name is a lightning bolt
that stuns me whenever I see it
and I wish that it won't anymore
but it still does
and I still see your name
and when I do
It flashes in the middle of the dark sky
as if waves of rain are about to pass by
bringing back the fool that I once was
and the memories we once had