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A Haiku

Either we’ll all die Or we’ll all live forever; Not sure which is worseFiled under: Uncategorized Tagged: death, haiku, immortality, life, poetry, writing

Crayola.

I’m no artist, but I have always loved colors. Sometimes words aren’t enough (I have spent too many of my seconds flipping through thesauruses searching for the right words, always coming up empty-handed), but colors are infinite. Not the kind that come in a 64-pack of crayons. Not even all the paint in all the […]

Astronomy Lessons

i.  The lights are too bright in this city I can hardly see the sky   ii. Mistake flashing lights for lightning bolts Confuse aeroplanes for the North star  (Sailors used the sky to navigate) Try to follow the stars home Walk until my feet are bloodied and bruised Find out that these stars never […]

How to say goodbye.

You, who walks away who turns around who runs   You must be brave enough to forget   You must be strong enough to keep walking   You must be sure enough to trust you are not walking away but walking toward   Something even more beautifulFiled under: On the fragility of dreams and their […]

Juxtapose

I was           a drop in the ocean You were                 the first drop of rain in the desert   In another life we might have been the same                         But people only […]

Too Much.

Some days I think I must fall a little bit in love with every person that I meet.   Telling the very same  story to any person that might listen.   Giving pieces of my heart  away to any person who wants them.Filed under: On the patience of paper. Tagged: free verse, humanity, love, loving, […]

Tonight, Today, and Tomorrow.

We all knew what was coming. If the future were a hurricane, well, then we were right there in the eye of the storm. It wasn’t something we could push away. It wasn’t something we could procrastinate or hide from. Frankly, we wouldn’t want to. Each of us were looking forward to better and brighter […]

I’m still figuring things out.

I believe in this. I believe in cartwheels in the park and mint green nail polish. I believe in the faint blue glow of laptop screens and the hot summer sun beating down on your face as the ocean caresses your skin like a lover. I believe in books. I believe in fantastical and impossible and […]