Category: Poetry

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 [...]

He’s a shadow And he leans in when I kiss him He’s getting darker  For his without when I’m with him Not like before When it was only within  I feel guilty When I really admit I miss him But I get off scott free Because no one ever listens Other than him, but  He’s [...]

I’ve always moved in acceleration. Done light years in adolescence, Lived all my 9 before I got my period And made up my mind Before I got any sense. I’ve done plenty I never meant - Wrote texts I’ve never sent, Straightened out kinks I should’ve bent, And attended to events I should’ve left. I [...]

I sit, head back and neck aching Feet naked and fire blazing Watching the sky; Satellites out on the darkness just grazing  And I pick the stars out, it’s amazing. I find them so beautiful,  Littering the picture, small spots bursting  And patterns of mandalas and faces  And shapes and traces of magic  Lace the [...]

They say the Devil was an angel, But why the past tense? Don’t they sense The raw mystery Of darkness? The glory of black, Or the beauty of swallowed up? So I’m using present to follow up My description of the S word Because there’s a looking glass in all terms Of negative and positive [...]

In that photo you called me beautiful in I hadn’t washed for days My knickers were glued to me And my chest was laid With red marks as my bra  Never left it’s resting place I’d smoked at least 300 fags And my fingers were yellow stained My skin was pimpled, my legs hairy And [...]

It goes like this right: the mood will be like, Perfect, and the vibes light. There will be laughing and, just a little, play fight, Some flirting! and a few “oh I might”s, then the papers come out, the baggies and the Stoners’ tackle. Fingers will pinch, tongues lick, lighters will get passed round and [...]

I mean I’ll leave you alone if you prefer that But don’t let me make home on my own Then start to stir that Pot like you always do, When I’m strong and you prefer that Girl who wobbles in the throttles of your paws as you claw that Side out of me again and [...]

I wasn’t raised on scripture or a certain ideology  I had my own brain and was allowed to let it follow me  Many times in youth, hit hard with the truth, But I never let it swallow me And I’ve met God plenty of times but he never did acknowledge me I’ve been broken before, [...]