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glitteryteenpoems · 7 months

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vessel

rinse your rice before

you cook it

become the waxy

woven fabric

wash yourself free of sins

but be careful not

to flood your veins

with blackened blood

sins are like holy water

infinitely concentrated

my body is a vessel

a canvas

a trench

i am the ocean

the painter

the sea floor

you are the diver

the critic

the darkness

creeping over my life

like blackened blood

i do not care

what i have created

myself to be

as long as you

take those parts of me away

dilute my sins

vessel.

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glitteryteenpoems · 7 months

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shepherds warning

my mind is a maze

of red thread

that unravels itself

to find the means

to the end

(you understand me in the silence

but when the morning breaks

it dawns on you

that my silence isn’t enough

to believe in)

the red thread finds itself

i say nothing.

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glitteryteenpoems · 7 months

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the shape of the moon

the whisper of a breeze echoes through the house we’ll never live in

it kicks up dust from your unused wicker chair and rustles the dead flowers on the windowsill

outside the overgrown garden aches to be frolicked in our bones feed the flowers

wild the way you wanted to be growing free as our house rots a perfect sphere shining in the moonlight

the moon put the wind in your bones so you could visit once more without considering how hard it would be to leave again

easy for her to say she ebbs and flows but we’re only buried once

we fall apart slowly, slowly.

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glitteryteenpoems · 1 year

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kinetic energy connections potential but not quite a prodigy if a midnight love is not enough then perhaps you are asking too much if your ugly duckling narrative refuses to unfurl if your metamorphosis leaves you a creature of the night perhaps you expect more than the world is destined to give you perhaps it is time to spread your wings and fly to the moon trailing silver blood and forgotten dreams.

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turmeric prompt from @writeblrcafe - bingo!

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glitteryteenpoems · 1 year

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candlelit corridors and other goodbyes wax on your fingers and wool over your eyes

candlelit corridors mercurial highs the distance stretches and so do your lies

candlelit corridors and orange skies bittersweet endings broken-voiced cries

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cinnamon from @writeblrcafe's spice prompt bingo

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glitteryteenpoems · 1 year

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she never stays long a hurricane of orange a glimpse of sunlight

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star anise prompt from @writeblrcafe's spice bingo :)

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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belated happy one year to this little account :) i don't really post my poems here anymore, but i still love it when ur notes pop up in my emails! it's lovely to think that people read my poems even when i've forgotten about them.

love always,

lee.

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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my tree changes with the seasons. i watch, and wait till i do the same.

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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the word tastes like coffee spilling out of your mouth it’s bitter and dark and i wanna take your tongue out

when you call me a villain with your hands on my body do you hear yourself and find the truth in my pain? will you call me a victim just while you’re mourning?

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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Book

ghosts fall from pages

you pick up their feelings, wait

to be loved again.

Human

My bookshelf holds ghosts.

Despite this, I feel the same

feelings they once felt.

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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closed ecosystem

i'm tethered to this room according to you it smells like me but i think i'm keeping you here like the houseplants dying on my windowsill you'd rather be climbing trees than watching the seasons change the one outside. i can't let go of this space you haunt it like a ghost last night i cried because there were birds in my tree and now i watch the spring leaves grow i'm tethered to this room according to mum i need to get out my tears soak into the pillows i can't remember when you left but i might if i let go.

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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i fill my books with letters addressed to my friends, they only make it as far as the fire but they'll come back when it ends and the streets have started wobbling i can't even cross the road without tripping over a metaphor or all the words i never wrote

and dear diary, i'm aching to just write about this pain but there is no escaping the poems that fall like the rain.

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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in media-res

[slow zoom from

outer space] first

showing the orange

ocean and the

black clouds

and the lack of animals

the disappearance of trees

war and plague and apocalypse

[slow pan around to

show a small house] in which

a teenager sits and lets

ink bleed from their pen

[close up of the paper

and what they’ve drawn]

pink hearts and love

poems

so the audience realises

the micro-scope

that this teenager

has.

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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my body beneath the ocean, buried in a sea of words i've lost.

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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tiny pieces of me flaking off like the paint from the side of the house i helped my grandad paint now i'm too tired to go to sleep and all my grandad taught me was how to hold a paintbrush tiny pieces of me lost to the sea breeze it could be worse it could be worse.

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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drift my muscles ache and the sky dulls the bright roar of life if i was stronger i would write a poem about her if i was stronger i would write a poem about you and the way your breath feels on my cheek or the back of my neck soft like the gentle slap of waves against the bottom of a boat lonely in the sky lonely in the sea a

drift apart but not like you if i was stronger if i was stronger.

saw a boat today that looked so soft and so lonely, if I was stronger maybe I would write a poem about her

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glitteryteenpoems · 2 years

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then again, a million stars and you couldn't save one even if you tried. the stars will rise again supernova, supernova, a million ways to give up.

There are a million

Ways to give up, sometimes I

Think I've tried them all

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