POETRY
Maker of a Broken Home
A poem exploring a foreign persona
I inhale oxygen and exhale rage My ears are candles in this cold room How did I get here? I can’t seem To remember But the hole In the wall And the pain In my fist Tells it all There is no Going back Now Breathe. Be calm. My love moves further From me each second. Hunched over– Like a coward. Tear stained rosy cheeks She cries Not for me For us One moment Sympathy The next Rage Burning rage Fills the room And then it all goes black– Again.
A Dead Horse
Exploring enjambment
Better to not beat a dead horse, for it has died already. Better just go kill a- nother. Do with it what you want un- til you are doing the same again. A little bird has told me that you are go- ing around killing horses. You beat un- til you feel satisfied, then you watch un- til they rot. You kill with such grace and you run with- out trace but you will never leave the body. With the body in the bag, around you will drag in case a dead horse needs beat again.
Home
A pantoum
I wish to go home I don’t belong there I no longer know where I belong And now it’s become a problem I don’t belong there I imagine that god used the wrong cookie cutter And now it's become a problem I don’t seem to fit in anywhere I imagine that god used the wrong cookie cutter I am a but a square longing to be a circle I don’t seem to fit in anywhere Where is home I am a square longing to be a circle I no longer know where I belong Where is home I wish to go home
Oh Mother
A sonnet (kind of)
Tell me why, mother, do you so insist On protecting me from myself, on this Arrangement with a woman you do not Even know, you ought to be ashamed of Yourself for forcing me to reveal my secrets to these people who leave me in these sterile prisons with white walls and locks in strange places and curtains where there should be doors; but oh do i wish to be well. Oh how I long to be your little girl once more. If only you understood the pain and suffering it takes to be good. Oh how I long to see the light of day. Oh mother, when I see you I will say I love you.