how can you not see it? it falls out of my mouth cascades punctures the ground overwhelms, i drown. how can you not know? as i scream wail, hit the ground with my fists, internally feeding the frenzy, the riotous waves of pain, crashing and crushing and suspending me in time. the ocean [...]
Tag: poetry
#update
Hello friends! I just wanted to give y'all a quick update. I haven't been posting as much this week, which I am super sorry about! But it's the last three weeks of uni, and alllllllllll the assessments are due which! is! great! i! am! not! dying! at! all!!!!! But.....i posted on Twitter this morning that [...]
fuck you, we won’t fight in your wars #staywoke
i find myself exhausted. a bone-deep inescapable tiredness, an amalgamation of frustration, like cleaved nails scouring across a hard textured surface. indelicate obscene and overwhelmingly bloody fucking annoying. Malfunctioning dildos like the, Donald Trumpโs Pauline Hansonโsย and Mike Pence's of the world; stains on the very fabric of that which is the equality and humanity we [...]
feminist war cry
i fucking conquer more than survive i plant my feet i scream and run headfirst into battle i am a fucking fighter with a wicked right hook and a face youโll never forget. i am power confidence We are strength and courage. Breaking that glass ceiling Until we dance on top of the shards [...]
#REVIEW of THE HATE YOU GIVE by Angie Thomas
5/5. Read it. Now. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas needs to be a compulsory novel read in secondary schools across the world. It is a modern classic, speaking from a perspective not quite heard in the book community; and that is from the perspective of people of colour. Even though there is a [...]
the impermanence of your permanence.
itโs easier to say that youโre dead, instead of just, you left and never looked back. how ironic that the prospect of your death would be easier to handle than watching you walk away so casually, (a voluntary abandonment). it's easier to say that you're dead rather than remember how my mother's tears created permanent [...]
catastrophicย
the destruction commenced unwarranted catastrophic. I raised my hands a blessing tasting the fire the ash. donโt be fooled by the burns of the leftover destruction. having to rise from those ashes I discovered re-discovered Myself. My strength. My intelligence. A glorious phoenix with wings of fire and ash. -ย flying, soaring. a winged beast of [...]
a non-mutual relationship
a heaviness blankets me like a shawl, misted grey feeding off my soul, like a parasite. it bites. it pulls at my life force, sucking, taking, stealing. my body is not my own. sinister laughter only i can hear you are unworthy. you are nothing.ย you are unlovable no one will ever remember you. [...]
a sequel
i pushed through the wind and there was something so painfully beautiful in the action so simple yet so powerful. i pushed through the wind and i felt carefree young happy i was who i was meant to be in that moment, unapologetically flawed and absolutelyย beautiful. i learnt something that day in the park, surrounded [...]
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