“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just… start.”
— Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Your availability
Diminishes your value
.
But how much it hurts you
To withdraw
Is the knife that twists
In your hurried paw
.
Some self-dosed digitalis;
Soon-to-be-scrap-metal
Tears the digits, alas;
A pianist taken out of the ring
.
Stubbornness is a fine craft
Cut my ring finger off
So no one
Can marry me
.
Why do we strike when the iron is hot?
When it would hold our attention longer
To mold, inductile, from the cold
These bands
.
Reverse psychological test of mettle
.
Slow
.
Slow
.
Slow
_____________________________
Maureen Armstrong @haikkun
current read🌸
Hmm should I find a copy as well?
Making this cate comfortable
Your poetry caresses the curve of neck.
Your prose flows through dips and folds.
Your words touch what your tongue seeks to taste.
Your spaces trace what your hands yearn to graze.
This is our bittersweet intertwining -
while the fires are subtly quelled,
the burn intensifies.
-
Your poetry, our hunger (Love and lust during lockdown)
Connecting the dots
puzzling it all out, thinking
a solution hides
behind the questions I have,
but they don't answer themselves.
.
D W Eldred
Clear your mind here
It is easy to forget how simple we are; clinging to strange and aberrant hopes pretending things like freedom and justice, craving flight and other lusts when we are merely monkeys using sticks to catch bugs.
O butterfly What are you dreaming there, Fanning your wings?
- Chiyo-Ni
You can tell a lot about how much a person cares about you by seeing how often they try to protect you.
You can tell a lot about what a person has been through by what they try to protect you from.
such a great feeling when someone just genuinely wants to talk to you and wants to know how your life is going
