You Asked Me For Poetry (I Gave You Words) by kazumisangel, literature
Literature
You Asked Me For Poetry (I Gave You Words)
Tell me something quiet, you
asked, and I did. I told you the day
I skipped school because I hated
the pallid look of the carpet
so I burst out of the doors
by the cafeteria and walked.
I found a path and kept going.
It was February. I was alone.
There was a waterfall frozen
rigid and when I hurled all
of my emotions through a stone
it shattered into a million tiny
grains of sparkling crystal sand-
Tell me something green. A boy
with a coin stood in the market
when he spotted the smile
of the beautiful girl and he didn't
even hear the clink and the splash
as his future slipped quicksilver fast
through the jail cell of the
Why Bother With Sleep When We Could Have Insomnia? by kazumisangel, literature
Literature
Why Bother With Sleep When We Could Have Insomnia?
Why bother with sheep when I can
count your ribs instead? You are thin
like a paper cut, you slide your way
between the fragile layers of my skin.
I want to bury you into my bones, drain
my body of all marrow and tunnel you
a house to come home to. I am weightless.
Every breath you breathe scatters my
dandelion seeds and I am nothing. Like you,
I want to see the world through the blurred
tint of swirled sea glass, I want the wind
embedded in my ears, I want your toes muddied
like mine when we give up on shoes and tango
in between the lightning strikes. I can pull you
inside and pour chocolate poetry down your throat,
I can sett
Truck Stop Coffee Addict by kazumisangel, literature
Literature
Truck Stop Coffee Addict
When I asked you what kind of coffee you liked,
what I really wanted was to drink into your soul.
I wanted to drip hazelnut syrup through my heart,
the steam pouring out of my ears.
One day you'd wake up beside me and ask
why my hands were so red. And even then,
I'd never stop running my fingertips down your spine,
I'll never stop sinking my lips
into your burned tar nightmares.
My teeth will shake you lose from these
mid-morning terrors, I will drive you
to the edge of the city and back
just so we can say we've chased the sunset.
This car of ours, we'll shove our bags
in the trunk and our keys in the slot
and drive u
Your feet are ugly in the way
all ducklings are ugly none of the fluid grace of swans
and all the tiptoeing across eggshell egos of ballerinas. You
were never built to dance because when you cry,
it isn't crystalline drops on windshields.
You scream out hurricanes and those four letter words like ugly.
And lost.
I said, listen, I don't care if you're terrified. I'll dive
head first into those rivers streaming down your cheeks.
Even if you can't swim, there are two shoulders above my arms
for you to rest your hands on. I'll be your Superman,
so watch in wonder as I toss aside
these walls you've been hiding behind.
Muneer Panjwani is beautiful, with skin the color of my late-night chai latte and a voice just as soothing. He has spent the past days sitting at our breakfast tables, playing Go Fish with us, singing along with our silly camp songs I should have absolutely no reason to be afraid of him.
He has just reduced the twenty boys sitting across from me into shuddering, sobbing shells.
He stood there, with his gorgeous voice, slashing at them with knives of past fights and bruising their fists against old walls. He slapped them with every tear, his voice becoming the words of hundreds of friends, parents, brothers, telling them to stop cryin
She steps a little closer
and smiles. There's freckles
blooming across my nose and I
don't know if she placed them there
or if they just wandered astray
Her hair is bleached honey by the
long term exposure and I guess I'm
lighter at my roots, too, because
I could float away when she's near and
my feet will not stay grounded
Sometimes a breath of searing air
darts past my ear and I can feel the
singe of warm skin on mine and I relish
every single golden minute of it
She's burned my cheeks blush red
but I still refuse to hide my face
And the only time the dusk ever came
was when the night closed her lashes
and she set off on h
They scoff and turn away saying
nothing productive happens
before 7 o'clock in the morning
but I roll over
and clutch your hand tight in mine
so that the final swirling dregs
of your tainted dreams are not
the first thing you remember
when your clock lights up
and the ringing in your ears
is no longer just imaginary
they'll never know what they've
been missing.
Synonymous with Forever by kazumisangel, literature
Literature
Synonymous with Forever
Stars are bright, but stars still fade
She might even say they're eclipsed
By the Sun and the Moon
He claims she's always been bright
Only he doesn't know that now, like always
They're far too hopeful for their own good
Because eclipses require crossing
And stars cross all the time
Eyes like oceans meet eyes within space
Where chills fill the absence left by nothing
He shivers anyways, shuddering in shadows
S l o w l y
Her hands are charred black, a streak slashing across her nose. She splutters from smoke and blinks back tears threatening to spill as she hurls more wood onto the fire.
Her tears douse the flames; his love letters are burning beautifully.
But the ring he gave her. Still. Won't. Burn.
Another Heart Shaped Box by kazumisangel, literature
Literature
Another Heart Shaped Box
If I could give you one thing
It would be an empty wooden box
That you would use for anything
But it's really filled with all the words
You never hear
And laughter and the names of my crushes and
Even a place for your dreams to sleep
But you'd never be able to see it
Like the last expected step
Where your foot falls right through
And I'd ask you
Why raindrops are different colors
And you'd say
They aren't.
You Asked Me For Poetry (I Gave You Words) by kazumisangel, literature
Literature
You Asked Me For Poetry (I Gave You Words)
Tell me something quiet, you
asked, and I did. I told you the day
I skipped school because I hated
the pallid look of the carpet
so I burst out of the doors
by the cafeteria and walked.
I found a path and kept going.
It was February. I was alone.
There was a waterfall frozen
rigid and when I hurled all
of my emotions through a stone
it shattered into a million tiny
grains of sparkling crystal sand-
Tell me something green. A boy
with a coin stood in the market
when he spotted the smile
of the beautiful girl and he didn't
even hear the clink and the splash
as his future slipped quicksilver fast
through the jail cell of the
Why Bother With Sleep When We Could Have Insomnia? by kazumisangel, literature
Literature
Why Bother With Sleep When We Could Have Insomnia?
Why bother with sheep when I can
count your ribs instead? You are thin
like a paper cut, you slide your way
between the fragile layers of my skin.
I want to bury you into my bones, drain
my body of all marrow and tunnel you
a house to come home to. I am weightless.
Every breath you breathe scatters my
dandelion seeds and I am nothing. Like you,
I want to see the world through the blurred
tint of swirled sea glass, I want the wind
embedded in my ears, I want your toes muddied
like mine when we give up on shoes and tango
in between the lightning strikes. I can pull you
inside and pour chocolate poetry down your throat,
I can sett
Truck Stop Coffee Addict by kazumisangel, literature
Literature
Truck Stop Coffee Addict
When I asked you what kind of coffee you liked,
what I really wanted was to drink into your soul.
I wanted to drip hazelnut syrup through my heart,
the steam pouring out of my ears.
One day you'd wake up beside me and ask
why my hands were so red. And even then,
I'd never stop running my fingertips down your spine,
I'll never stop sinking my lips
into your burned tar nightmares.
My teeth will shake you lose from these
mid-morning terrors, I will drive you
to the edge of the city and back
just so we can say we've chased the sunset.
This car of ours, we'll shove our bags
in the trunk and our keys in the slot
and drive u
Your feet are ugly in the way
all ducklings are ugly none of the fluid grace of swans
and all the tiptoeing across eggshell egos of ballerinas. You
were never built to dance because when you cry,
it isn't crystalline drops on windshields.
You scream out hurricanes and those four letter words like ugly.
And lost.
I said, listen, I don't care if you're terrified. I'll dive
head first into those rivers streaming down your cheeks.
Even if you can't swim, there are two shoulders above my arms
for you to rest your hands on. I'll be your Superman,
so watch in wonder as I toss aside
these walls you've been hiding behind.
Muneer Panjwani is beautiful, with skin the color of my late-night chai latte and a voice just as soothing. He has spent the past days sitting at our breakfast tables, playing Go Fish with us, singing along with our silly camp songs I should have absolutely no reason to be afraid of him.
He has just reduced the twenty boys sitting across from me into shuddering, sobbing shells.
He stood there, with his gorgeous voice, slashing at them with knives of past fights and bruising their fists against old walls. He slapped them with every tear, his voice becoming the words of hundreds of friends, parents, brothers, telling them to stop cryin
She steps a little closer
and smiles. There's freckles
blooming across my nose and I
don't know if she placed them there
or if they just wandered astray
Her hair is bleached honey by the
long term exposure and I guess I'm
lighter at my roots, too, because
I could float away when she's near and
my feet will not stay grounded
Sometimes a breath of searing air
darts past my ear and I can feel the
singe of warm skin on mine and I relish
every single golden minute of it
She's burned my cheeks blush red
but I still refuse to hide my face
And the only time the dusk ever came
was when the night closed her lashes
and she set off on h
Another Heart Shaped Box by kazumisangel, literature
Literature
Another Heart Shaped Box
If I could give you one thing
It would be an empty wooden box
That you would use for anything
But it's really filled with all the words
You never hear
And laughter and the names of my crushes and
Even a place for your dreams to sleep
But you'd never be able to see it
Like the last expected step
Where your foot falls right through
And I'd ask you
Why raindrops are different colors
And you'd say
They aren't.
They scoff and turn away saying
nothing productive happens
before 7 o'clock in the morning
but I roll over
and clutch your hand tight in mine
so that the final swirling dregs
of your tainted dreams are not
the first thing you remember
when your clock lights up
and the ringing in your ears
is no longer just imaginary
they'll never know what they've
been missing.
Synonymous with Forever by kazumisangel, literature
Literature
Synonymous with Forever
Stars are bright, but stars still fade
She might even say they're eclipsed
By the Sun and the Moon
He claims she's always been bright
Only he doesn't know that now, like always
They're far too hopeful for their own good
Because eclipses require crossing
And stars cross all the time
Eyes like oceans meet eyes within space
Where chills fill the absence left by nothing
He shivers anyways, shuddering in shadows
S l o w l y
Her hands are charred black, a streak slashing across her nose. She splutters from smoke and blinks back tears threatening to spill as she hurls more wood onto the fire.
Her tears douse the flames; his love letters are burning beautifully.
But the ring he gave her. Still. Won't. Burn.
And by their hands shall you know them by oracle-of-nonsense, literature
Literature
And by their hands shall you know them
i.
Long fingers taper,
thin between each swollen joint,
rounds of bone that can’t be lost,
like the purple-scarred stomach skin
from one year’s crackers-and-coffee diet,
the bass guitar calluses on numbed fingertips,
the panic attacks and Xanax collected
after ODing on heroin,
going heartbeatless in a hospital bed
while his veins were pumped with activated charcoal.
ii.
Like sausage links, his square-tip digits
not much longer than my own,
but larger, like I thought his heart was.
The fingers making my sandwiches,
pressing lower back and shoulder blades
in a goodbye-for-now hug,
wrapping gauze over my wounded skin –
the sam
I don’t know what it is,
the way I see the world.
I know it’s a unique vision
but that there are others like me
somewhere distant
we look out
and it’s like we’re hovering
phantoms
watching people breathe
with a perspective that seems too far removed
and withdrawn to be accurate.
we observe
with the clarity of truth
but it’s not the kind of clear
that you see looking through a window.
it’s like staring
through ice
everything has crystalline facets
sharp, defined edges
brilliant colors…
sometimes I feel as though
I could stretch out my hands
but still never come close
to brushing the world with my fi
Your feet are ugly in the way
all ducklings are ugly none of the fluid grace of swans
and all the tiptoeing across eggshell egos of ballerinas. You
were never built to dance because when you cry,
it isn't crystalline drops on windshields.
You scream out hurricanes and those four letter words like ugly.
And lost.
I said, listen, I don't care if you're terrified. I'll dive
head first into those rivers streaming down your cheeks.
Even if you can't swim, there are two shoulders above my arms
for you to rest your hands on. I'll be your Superman,
so watch in wonder as I toss aside
these walls you've been hiding behind.
Hey all,
I'm working on a project with a foundation called Artists for World Peace, and we're looking for some written thoughts on World Peace to use in one of our events this year. Here's the official letter with more information:
Artists for World Peace (AFWP) is a foundation that creates opportunities for artistic expression, fosters world peace and raises funds to benefit global humanitarian causes since 2003. Soon we will be hosting the Artists for World Peace Third International Celebration of Peace: Dance for Peace.
To kick off this creative benefit, I am asking if you can reply with your thoughts on peace.
What comes to mind whe
It's back.
I know it's been far too long, but I pulled out my poetry (for the first time in a long time) last night. What I couldn't stand to look at before doesn't seem quite so threatening on the page. Maybe I even liked it a tiny bit. But only after 4 horus of revision.
So it's up. Swan Diver, originally written in script form (little scrawl, covered in notes and phonetic punctuation and accents all over the place) in my notebook under the title "Gisele," where it sat stagnant for month. Still water may be poisonous, but something about leaving my writing to sit had made it worth looking at.
It's a little bit thereputic, sitting wrapped
So I said there would be more new stuff, but everything is too raw and convoluted for me to even consider posting. It's too personal and I can't do it at the moment. Sorry.
But I do promise that I'm working on it.