Creative Writing

  • Poem – “September Rivers” – Grief Poetry – 9/9/2022

    Reflections in smoke.Hopelessness in hope,while hearts go idlein these darkerseconds that we neverfind somethingto chase after. A storm of tears.Turbulence in heartswhere erasers broughtsmudges on those letters,written with inkin an hour, whenlove held all together. Another degree to burnwhen this time comes to turnour sceneries into mirrors.Cutting our embracing arms,piercing an emptinesswe bring anothertragic kiss,…

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  • Poem – “Eyes never Close” – Grief Poetry – 9/9/2022

    Dedicate. Alleviatewhere it worsens,without much touchin these scenariosA lost gripwill be where life slips,at a tongue that spokeremnants ofa fading truth. A promisecoming aboard,with light that keepsus, going northwhere we will drown,held upside-down. Capsized. Oversizedhearts, going palein those clouds that borrowedall our undermined photographsthat fade in an evening’ssurrendering sunlight. To droplets that rainupon hearts, decoratedwith…

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  • Some part of meknows nothing of northernlights that transferheat, through darkness,wafting a ceiling that keeps usarrested in excuse,keeps us reusedin moments, even whenunamused. Even whenour sentences are unsound,we are perfect, around. Lift off, take offpieces that matter little,when we are everything large. Even whenbroken in two,scars are recalled at stars,pinpointed in everything betweenspace, fused inside…

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  • Poem – “Watered Color” – Grief Poetry – 9/8/2022

    Chosen, at that timeto comfort youunder sheets, for what burnsinside wounds, when evening turnsback into morning’s sunrise.All those drops of dewyearn to console you,wearing you downunder mourning’s crown,leaving you grayin a barren day. Another erato litter bodies,in these wars, rememberedat those stars, dismemberedbefore your shell cancome back to standyour form on a lonesome shore,while you…

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  • Poem – “After the Weather” – Grief Poetry – 9/7/2022

    Screams between scars.Memories between those rocksshe holds, when her coldskin wishes to burn twice,when her eyes hold everythingtight in those clampedpathways. To her soul,towards a destination, old,towards a place that remainsspaced on glimpsesto landscapes, cold. I repeat that she holdsher life above a grave,screaming to clouds, wishingfor tears to soar downto soak her handsthat she…

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  • Poem – “Fitting you into Language” – Love Poetry – 9/7/2022

    Sceneries closinglike chapters in wrapped up,bandaging sentences.Promises held up,like grails, revealing historydrunk from a cup,spit out into handsheld together, broken apartfrom all those lost wordswe were losing atan unexpected ending. Live your last light,frozen from that momentwe were dreamingof utopian streets,within harrowing pleas,inside crossing directionswhen winds turned pages,twisting us on a storywe were not controlling.…

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  • Poem – “Heartbeats in Silence” – Grief Poetry – 9/7/2022

    Choose tokeep these rhythms anew,even among fallen treesheeded in silence,fallen hours that wereour time to saylove will find a way. Love will cling torotting hearts,leaves with gleaming dew.In tempests, reflectionswhere those turbulent timeswere mere winds to blowtunes through chimes,echoes through spaces,bandaged wounds. What had wekept to, under theseglistening moments we werefading in each other’s disease?Both…

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  • Poem – “Unbroken in Heartache” – Grief Poetry – 9/6/2022

    To shadows,I have always looked.To your grave,I have watchedwith symptoms turning greyunder clouds that rush downleaves, discolored furtherinto clarity’s rain. To notice a shape,broken among this samefate that we shared,with scars to compare,from touches thatwe ever dared. With memories hung likeleaves refusing tolet go. With our feelingsstaying like winter thatremains white for another nightto see…

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  • Poem – “Spaces & Pauses” – Love Poetry – 9/6/2022

    Choose to repeattaking place in those seats,as life skips secondsin between heartbeats,finding our world to walk,before arms have a minuteto drown us.Repeating needless words,unkept promises thatwere for smiles too large,hearts burned downas buildings on edgesof barren towns. All that talk,those seconds we walked,awakening to autumn’s rush,a cold wind againstour vacant shoulders.We had nothing to cry…

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  • Poem – “Tides to Warm you” – Grief Poetry – 9/5/2022

    With weather afield,among thoughts to shield,buried under smilesthat were burning into anafterthought, after we soughta symptom of drunkennessto linger on turbulence,as summer’s spark in thesedisplaced, disgraced hearts. All that drifts, goes onwith melting ice. Are youfading in all those sunsets?Dropped, like teardropsto horizons splitting thesecurrents in currentmoments where we countour seconds, apart. With held hands,…

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  • Poem – “Shape of Heartache” – Grief Poetry – 9/4/2022

    Stones keepthose words downon your rewritten heart.A draft lost to wind,with eyes lost to spacewhen tracing our formssplit among a field. Volcanic behaviorcannot ever savorthose blue momentswe understoodwhat we were meant for,buried under clouds.Meant for memorythat will always last,beneath overcast We fall to seepast funerals, where wewill discover sleep.Love reiterates, uponwhite dresses, white paperthose words…

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  • Poem – “Pages of Red” – Grief Poetry – 9/4/2022

    Disappoint this everypoint we dotted,lost at everysecond that we imaginedour eyes to crisscross,painted in blue,helpless in fullnesswhile our heads carryemptied clouds,overhead. To comparediscolored roses toexpressions that renew –without folding pagesat pauses,without counting secondsfading with petals,ground into rustedtrain tracks,rushing a familiar soundwhere heartbeats willfind their stop. Lone motionon weathered iron,where blood hadchanged its course.I keep drainingwith…

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