My Poems:
The Gates Are Closed
Earthbound, Daphne glows with sunlit green, full, heavy branches crying for Heaven.
But, bluegrey and distant, She only drops translucent paint onto dry, yielding dirt.
Unused for centuries, a silver key necklace rests upon Her smooth cloud pale skin.
Thundergrey eyes under black lashes watch Her gift, Her children, die and decay.
She is old. She is tired. She no longer cares.
Memorial
Inside No Man's Land,
amidst mud and rotting bones,
a red poppy blooms.
2024: 41/12.
Reading: Chilling Horror Short Stories (Flame Tree Publishing), The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, & On Writing Well by William Zinsser.
Recently Read: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Writing: Hallmark essays for my college.
♥ Sylvia Plath.
♥ Dorian Bridges
Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.
— Unknown Girl In Maternity Ward by Anne Sexton.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.
— Daddy by Sylvia Plath.
Sometimes living is something I do out of obligation.
— Anonymous, Tumblr.
Parting is such a sweet sorrow/That I shall say goodnight 'till it be morrow.
— Juliet (Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare).
It came upon him in a flash: he didn't want anyone to die, not even his enemy.
— Patrick (We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates).
There is no good on Earth; and sin is but a name. Come devil! for to thee the world is given.
— Goodman Brown (Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne).
The beginning is fire; the end is a heap of ashes; and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world. Let me sleep, since I cannot die.
— Nurse Mcdonald (The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford).
Hell has nothing to do with fire pits or brimstone. Hell is knowing plainly that heaven is forever out of reach.
— Leonora by Elise Forier Edie.
♥ The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe.
♥ On Writing Well by William Zinsser.
♥ The Complete Poetry of Robert Frost.
♥ The Waste Land, Pufrock, And Other Poems by T.S. Elliot.
♥ The Pleasures of The Damned by Charles Bukowski.
♥ Chilling Horror: Short Stories by Various.
♥ The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence.
♥ The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy.
♥ The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai.
♥ The Boy Crisis by John Gray & William Farrell.
♥ How To Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster.
♥ The Forgottoen Girls by Monica Potts.
♥ ‘Poverty, by America’ by Matthew Desmond.
♥ Why Kids Kill by Peter Langman.
