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Three-line poems that describe the conflicts between beauty, sadness, fear, and desire.
Featured Post: Dandelion Ballerina
I want wrists curved like butterfly wings; a jawline arched like the vein of a leaf; a ribcage like a harp. I will sway to music-box melodies beside the daisies: the dandelion ballerina…
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A collection of pieces that revolve around the nature and nurture creation of a human being, told from the perspectives of air, water, earth, and fire.
Featured Post: Holding Breath in a Room Full of Air
She was trying desperately to break the boundaries of her being and bind her blemishes in bandages...

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Archive of posts published in the tag: music

Fairest of Them All

ROSEMARY: A young, fairy-tale loving girl who was raised by a gentle and attentive mother (MARIANNE). She is initially bright and hopeful, but as she grows older and more beautiful, she becomes the object of her mother’s jealousy. Thus her relationship with MARIANNE…

Not Unbreakable

I am not unbreakable. I spend my time dodging the echoes of footsteps, slipping around the discordant quavers of notes that try to penetrate my skin and mummify me with bandages of music staffs. I hear the pleas and the screams of the…

My Sea

My sea is layered and lively, a collection of every part of me and unrestrained in the candor of its being. My sea is me. Their sea is surface and simple, a fraction of the truth and limited to what they are able…

Muse

  in·spi·ra·tion (ˌinspəˈrāSH(ə)n/)   The human process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. An otherworldly influence directly and immediately exerted upon the human mind or soul. Divine effect upon an otherworldly being, who in turn…

Forced Sleep

You slide my eyelids shut and braid my lashes tight into silent, sleek ropes of prison. You pour liquid shadows into the pupils of my softening eyes, so it hurts to see the light, so that sharp glares spin themselves with pain into…

The Milestone

The lights flashed in a pulsating alternation of red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple. With the music pounding in my ears and the sway of sweaty, passionate bodies pressed against me, I could feel my heart beat in time with…

Music of the Choir

Her deft fingers gently ran over piano keys of ebony and ivory, and from her hands was born a powerful, beautiful melody. The music wove its way through the air and into the hearts of the five young singers whose voices rose in…

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