• prompt: what can you do about it?
    source: amy kay (instagram)

    move to a new city
    hell, move to a new state
    cut your hair
    start looking up instead of down at your feet
    listen when the wind whispers from the sequoias
    throw his ring in a lake
    scream at the stars that never scream back
    tuck your secrets away in a dungeon you built within yourself
    think you are safe
    understand that you are merely surviving
    and then one day…
    demolish the dungeon
    free the wild within you
    watch it devour twenty years of solitude
    like a starving man freed from his shackles

    -rjm

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    you are becoming something new, something akin to a river whose surface dances with placidity but whose under currents ripple soft into the earth, transforming the landscape to fit its course.

    -rjm
  • happy april, my friends! i know things have been a little quiet around these parts but for good reason: i’ve been working on other creative outlets, primarily painting, and practicing small, one-off embroidery projects. april, however, is all about poetry!

    april is national poetry writing month, an off-shoot of national novel writing month (nanowrimo), which occurs in november. if you’ve been following me around the internet for long enough, you know i’ve participated in nanowrimo in the past (and won! which means i wrote at least 50k words in 30 days – the story was absolute shit and would never win a real award lol)

    i’m have amassed a huge number of prompts for the month and will be sharing work daily on the blog, instagram, and facebook (i have a facebook page! like and follow and all that), so expect overlap.

    i will also try to share my favorite poems and work i’ve discovered from the amazing poets i follow. it’s shaping up to be an exciting month!

    what are your plans for april??