So many books, so little time. This year I am going to try and be more organised so that I can finallyย work through my TBR list, when books are released I will also then add them to the list. At the moment, these are the books on my shelves that I need to get to [...]
Category: poetry
i’ve never seen you so happy
i've never seen you as happy as you are now. skin glowing smile blinding your laugh at the ready. making the most out of this small country town. you are now who you are supposed to be. revel in it bask in your self-love for you have achieved dreams that seemed insurmountable before. [...]
POETRY REVIEW: WILD EMBERS BY NIKITA GILL
Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty Wild Embers by Nikita Gill is a firestorm of lovely prose, that at times, can be quietly powerful and other times, is an exhilaration of a pure unstoppable force. I will try and keep this review brief, only because I wholeheartedly believe that this is a poetry collection [...]
prologue
she tried to hold on. she tried to fight it. her babyโs cries pushed her on. she couldnโt stop it. the pain ricocheted; the bullet ploughed on. something trickled down her arm; it pulsed, she bled Red.
i want to rip out my voice
I want to rip out my voice and throw it at you make you bleed from words unspoken. the more i scream the less you hear the more i hurt the less you care. i want to rip out my heart and squeeze it and let it rupture in front of your face. so you [...]
but i claw my way back up
gravity takes me down. ... ... ... ears ringing, silence abound. Getย Up.ย Get Up. Get Up. Get Up.ย a mantra a fighting chant, with that i claw my way back up. fingers gripping the ground a leverage i push against, grapple my way to standing. the light? (where is it?) i panic iย feel [...]
gravity takes me down
a life light a flickering beacon, of hope? i can't tell, there is an overcast a mist i can't see through. but my heart is pumping adrenaline firing in my veins, i'm running? i've lost feeling, i'mย stumbling (?) towards that flickering light. too busy trying not to be hit by overhanging branches, rotted stumps, obstructions. [...]
the comic books have it wrong
the comic books have it wrong and so do the movies, multiverses with no thought to the irrevocable fact that Mothers are the strongest Superheroes in the known universe and unknown multiverses. what good are the Avengers when you have a mother ready to always have your back, to slaughter your demons with no thought, [...]
what does she have?
one of the saddest things to bear witness to is the sudden realisation of their own mortality. she says that she's old and she doesn't want to die. she calls aged care homes a prison, and she doesn't want to collapse into the arms of death from inside a cage. that daughter that she stabbed [...]
today is a better day
today is a better day. not so much an empty shell but a cracked one with feelings trickling through, a lost soul fighting its way into its Home. i'm smiling. it doesn't take as much effort to move the muscles of my face and showcase a feeling a thought, i'mย here. it's a [...]
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