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Tag Archives: silence

Self Censored

Aug21

Shut your mouth!

Don’t you dare speak!

Don’t you dare/ utter a peep.

You might hurt someone,

With those powerful words

Speaking the truth

According to you

Speaking your mind

Representing yourself

Come/ on

And shut all up

And censor yourself. Continue reading →

1 Comment Posted in Poetry Tagged poems, Poetry, repression, silence, strength, trust, yearning

We made poetry

Feb25

Some people make love
Some people make do
But you and me
We made poetry Continue reading →

4 Comments Posted in Poetry Tagged closure, grief, growth, healing, heart, Heartbreak, hurt, Letting go, Love, lust, passion, poems, Poetry, relationships, silence, strength, yearning

Love Spell

Mar31

Some smells

bring back memories

as vivid as bright paint graffiti

newly shaken and sprayed

from a bottle

or can Continue reading →

1 Comment Posted in Poetry Tagged Consumption, fire, heart, honesty, hunger, lust, passion, poems, Poetry, silence, yearning

Conflicted. Progress. Process.

Mar22

Conflicted

twisted

contorted

and bent

Continue reading →

4 Comments Posted in Poetry Tagged dark, depression, discovery, dreams, growth, heart, inner battles, Letting go, light, overcoming struggle, poems, Poetry, silence

would you love me tomorrow?

Mar9

if i wasn’t exactly what you thought of me

or what you thought I’d be

would you still love me? Continue reading →

6 Comments Posted in Poetry Tagged anger, closure, depression, Dying, forgetting, friendship, Hate, Heartbreak, hurt, inner battles, Love, poems, Poetry, reason, relationships, repression, silence, strength, trust

she swallows

Oct27

her  pride

her will

her heart

she swallows

hard

his power Continue reading →

3 Comments Posted in Poetry Tagged fear, hurt, inner battles, relationships, silence

Prizefight

Aug22

“He’s mine!”
She screams
Feathers all ruffled
Posturing for a cockfight
Between hens
Who’d be much better off
As friends
Over a overhyped prize
Too chicken
To turn down any passing
Breast and thighs Continue reading →

2 Comments Posted in Poetry, Ruminations Tagged beauty, feminism, food, growth, Love, lust, passion, Poetry, relationships, silence, strength

Hell in Paradise

Aug20

The bark of guns
Fade into the background
So part of the dark outside
That silence
Scares the tough shell courage
From his adolescent body Continue reading →

2 Comments Posted in Poetry, Ruminations Tagged Consumption, food, friendship, Hate, heart, Heartbreak, hurt, inner battles, Jamaica, poems, Poetry, poor, poverty, repression, rich, silence, strength, yearning

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