this doesn't relate to poetry whatsoever, but does anyone know any good netflix shows? i'm bored asf
i'm also in desperate need of poetry book recs!!
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i heard the rain
slanting at the wind's touch,
falling against my window,
and i found it
not cleansing
but shattering.
i hear rain
and i think of soft bullets,
i think, "destruction."
its essence
soaks into my soul,
smearing the colors
together
until i can't find myself
in the brushstrokes
and the warm shades
of crimson, of umber,
of autumn.
i know i'll be
struggling to interpret
the blurs, the abstracts,
as soon as it leaves,
and the clouds retreat
into the milky blue,
the disrupted air
stained
with petrichor
and syrupy blossoms.
i'm a rain-warped canvas,
and i am shattered.
the humid air
slowly traps me in,
sharp fragments and all.
i need to relearn
how to breathe.
i no longer
recognized myself
in the self-portraits,
but i couldn't have,
even if the rain
never came
to run through the paints,
obscuring everything i've tried
to bring into focus.
i've changed,
i'm not a still photograph
that can be tucked
into your back pocket, forgotten,
until you remember
-on a lonely afternoon
as your coffee goes cold
like your hands have-
and you reach
for this memory, this idea,
instead of the living being
before you
whose flooded lungs
are swelling
with these ever-changing stories
(that are wild in the way they unspool
when you tug on stray threads
like a child with too much curiosity
and too little restraint),
whose eyes have sharpened
with no trace of sepia softness,
of faraway dreams and
midsummer laughs,
like you remember.
if the sun
spared a single ray
to light all the harsh angles
of myself,
the truth would be laid out
like a daring, lavish feast
for the parts of me
and the parts of you
i have kept
in the dark.
love,
mari
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