Category: Poetry

I still listen to that playlist of our summer I look at photos from then, Walk past the wine shop, The overground,  The athletics track, And hear, feel, see, Taste and touch our ghosts. I don’t think I ever won’t. You’re still a spirit of yester  I’m fragmented  Split into the past and the future [...]

Comment on the come up, not the come down Don’t let those nightmares clown you till you drown  Never hold yourself to sadness’ standards Or only see yourself when you drop your crown There’s a million moments to embarrass yourself, but recovery can start right now If the mornings after are the worst days, then [...]

You sit with crossed legs In a where’s Wally number Round frames, and dark rings From lack of slumber Usually I like a bit of pillow But when your stripes rose as you scratched I couldn’t help trail along the inverted belly And latch myself to dreams of catch I’m more concerned you’re fruity Than [...]

I don’t need some swashbuckling rogue To come sweep me off my toes And keep me off my feet Or come pirating my heartbeat  I don’t need saving from the defeat Of my femininity Or the deplete of my concrete When it becomes buttered meat  After he touches me I’m more than a maiden needing [...]

I didn’t feel the pain when I was with you But now it’s like my chest has been caved in  Paved in and pounded with metal fists Splintered by atomic hits Ripped like a prepubescent’s wrists And fitting like the lekky boxes’ trips  I keep tugging at my top ribs Hoping to alleviate some of [...]

Come back to me When you are free Of yourself Come back to joy And happiness  And health Come back to love And open up And delve Into my arms They’re waiting for your  Embrace  I will be your  Head first Not your escape   (I only want to mend, Not devastate)  By Lyric Deep.

I thought that light spray and bright gap  In the reflection of the window Was the ping back of the space that Fed air through my inner thighs Until I saw you two’s silhouettes shifting into each other and I realised  When the breakthrough got smaller and smaller That I wasn’t growing in size But [...]

I always thought that was just how your sweat smelt.  But the perfume of you couldn’t be bottled Or sold in shops that didn’t care about the natural approach to beauty.  Mascara was your furthest push into that realm; You never needed, never need, never will need to go any further.  I always considered that [...]

I was shaking that first night, Kind of terrified, Worried my pride Was falsified  And that I weren’t  Deserving of stage space With these tried And tested professionals Or that my truth Became lies As I stood in the spotlights And spit out bars Of past lives So I was shivering  In my fingertips, Intimidated [...]

Wishing good on those you hate is tricky I get sticky With the sour syrup of “Miss me with that wishy- Washy wishing” And get pissy with my heart As it tricks me  Into giving out those prayers In moments of quiet  Throwing cares at me Like frisbees And hitting every artery  With the mastery [...]