I mailed my quota of trust to Hades Gave away dancing shoes to the furies Cut my wrists on your barbed indifference Shook the habit of grief… Read more “Shook the habit – Candice Louisa Daquin”
Tag: pain
Trajectory – Candice Louisa Daquin
Time only haunts you once hardened in amber the fly immortal a draft to whisk away sorrow, in our lives we sleep on our hope for to… Read more “Trajectory – Candice Louisa Daquin”
Foreign-Megha Sood
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath The elongated nights and their shapeless arrival… Read more “Foreign-Megha Sood”
Tribe – Candice Louisa Daquin
Hold still it won’t hurt and if it does then it’s your fault anyway you’re lucky to be getting anything if it were up to me, I… Read more “Tribe – Candice Louisa Daquin”
Disciple of love – Candice Daquin
When I met you, I had no tears When you left me, I had too many They didn’t stop Though all the experts On saline tear production… Read more “Disciple of love – Candice Daquin”
I Knew My Pain – Aurora Phoenix
I knew my pain when it was a screeching sunset spurting cotton candy carnage across the feathered heavens mocking all that is soft and soothing drawing my… Read more “I Knew My Pain – Aurora Phoenix”
Ways of surviving
I want to offer my body petals of seduction, curved and surviving into the madhouse of sickness to the surviving lotus. I may not scream as icicles… Read more “Ways of surviving”
Among Poets Tonight- David Somerset
The world has leaned heavy on some of us It has broken us and then scorned our brokenness as weakness ridiculed our sensitivity as defects The world… Read more “Among Poets Tonight- David Somerset”
To Wolves- Austin M. Ely
Drawn from the darkness Only to be thrown To Wolves In an unforgiving light As I am ripped to pieces I come back together In the blink… Read more “To Wolves- Austin M. Ely”
Torn- Austin M. Ely
I am torn So very torn Between the seams of fate It seems too late For me to suture the wounds I sustained As I sip this… Read more “Torn- Austin M. Ely”
Whisper and the Roar 