Poemtober: volume 2 issue 2
It’s week 2, babes. Give it up for week 2! This is poemtember, where I take Inktober prompts and write bad poems based on the daily prompts! Illustrations also accompany some of the poems, for the Inktober PURISTS in the community. Enjoy, and if you don't enjoy, feel free to DM me on Instagram and tell me what EXACTLY you hated.
Knot
Lined up are my emotions
Raw, a melange
I place them down
CAREFULLY
Nice and neat
Easily accessible
-Foolish-
Anger topples over ennui
Lust pines after joy
Unfeigned joy bounces all around
Around it swirls
I feel all of them
I feel none of them
and when I want to pick one up
I pull up the full spectrum, tangled roots
Knotted and
Pulled taut
Ready to unravel
only to be knotted once
again
Raven
Quoted by Poe
Adorned by Baltimore
But who is the Raven?
Do they like solitude
Or canned tuna
Do they dance to music
late at night when the
world sleeps
Or are they resting
Awaiting their turn to be as they are
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Spirit
today
low
tomorrow?
I aim for high
so that I can land
in the middle
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Fan
being one doesn’t make you friends with the person with
whom you admire
I will internalize this one day
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Watch
tick Tick TICK
7:33
but it’s supposed to be
7:23
behind I’m running behind
-
I live my life in a time binary
really early
really late
never on time
-
I took my watch off
it was breaking my brain
couldn’t stop hitting that
ever growing step goal
ya know
-
now the train schedule rules my life
am I doing good today
early
am I doing bad today
late
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Pressure
I hope to play the saxophone
absent of the eyes and ears of another
a secret for me
-
I hope to take a walk for hours and hours
and no time will be lost
because time isn’t a thing to lose
-
I hope to shut the world out
to curl up with a blanket, guiltless
and watch a really long movie
-
I’ll release the valve before I burst
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Pick
yes yes yes I know
I know that it’s bad
But I usually wash my hands first
Raising a restless index finger
My face covered in acne
You know where that finger is headed
Curious digit, pillaging, terrorizing
It’ll scar
I know
It’s not enough to stop it
/////////////////////maybe this time will be
/////////////////////different
/////////////////////untouched
It’s bleeding
Are you happy?
/////////////////////no
