a diary of words, paper and other ephemeral things

Tag: poem of the day

  • water me

    threads of being 

    curl through every cell

    of this body

    arms   chest    heart

    opening like a flower

    crying nectar at the 

         sunrise

    penetration of light

    both

         pleasure and

              pain

  • is that word alive

    AI trained on human souls

    yet their words taste like

    pink plastic left

    in the sun too long

    I’d like to think I can tell

    when words don’t have a body

    like scraping the knee

    on the playground asphalt

    or bumping the funny bone

    or drinking water underneath

    scorching sun

  • loving gaze

    Where it began: stilt houses

    Skeletal remains emerging

    from algae-green pools

    Awe blooming at heart level

    for faded places, forgotten

    I whisper “thank you for open eyes”

    now I lovingly see

    crooked barns

    crumbling factories

    boarded-up businesses

    debris piles left behind

    wild-torn houses

    places hold people, hold stories…

    and now no one is left

    to tend to these places,

    they were once a flurry of

    motion, aliveness, everyday mundanity

    now no one bothered

    to even tear them down

    burn remains

    memorialize their time here

    honor what was