✧ Oliver ✧

Just a guy who likes photography, poetry, and aviation (He/Him)

[bittenbythesun]

Innocence

I see you there

I look into your eyes

At one point having your gaze on me didn't make me fear

That changed

My petals were intact

A white innocent flower

That what Oleander represents after all

What innocence have I got now?

With my petals strewn on the floor

It used to be all that was my mind

You a mess

Heavy breath

Lips parted

Filled with pleasure

Because of me

Now I can't even handle

Having a thought like that

Occupy my mind

Staining my thoughts

Making me filthy

Never again will I ever think about something like that

It will never cross my mind again

But no matter what

It wouldn't matter

Because I'm already dirty and disgusting

You made me think like that

You made me think those thoughts

Now how do I get them out of my head

Why are they stuck in my mind?

Are they permanent?

[nixscriptum]

𐙚⋆. MARCH POETRY PROMPTS a collection inspired by spring’s soft return, first blushes, soft beginnings, thawing hearts, and the romance of becoming.

1. you are irreplaceable to me 2. like a sailor chasing a lighthouse 3. rapture in fingertips 4. wildfire in small rooms  5. saint of almosts 6. 404: heart not found  7. better luck next time 8. too close to the sun (again) 9. the last frost warning 10. green ink in the margins of an old book 11. running barefoot across a damp lawn 12. a garden you inherited but did not ask for 13. small town myth 14. kiss me like it’s almost spring 15. the rope burns but I stay 16. thin lines and thick skin 17. lucky you ; lucky us 18. route advisory  19. don't rein me in 20. unraveled and yours 21. you see me still  22. almost falling, almost flying  23. I only feel alive at the edges 24. run away with me before the lights come on  25. every line I cross leaves flowers in its wake 26. my heart is a high wire strung between hunger and heaven 27. I bloom fiercest where I am forbidden 28. standing in the doorway of April 29. the soft return of light 30. the first true warmth on my face 31. closing the gate behind winter

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Love Will Tear Us Apart

Our love

Up

Down

Around

So chaotic

We both swear that we love each other

It truly just sounds like lies now

Do we really now?

We both hurt each other

We are destructive

As much as I love you

Is this good for the both of us?

How long can either of us go until we burn out?

The crisp flame of our love burns us both

We may both be used to love hurting

But it doesn't mean it's okay

How come we let ourselves hurt?

Why do we accept it?

Love shouldn't be that way

It should be pure and make the two happy

So what do we call what we have?

When we both are always in pain due to each other?

Is it love?

Or are we just waiting until one leaves because we both stay until the end?

[bittenbythesun]

Kiss Me Like You Mean It

Gods you don't even know

Just how good that was

Not sexual pleasure

Just pure

PURE

love

No one else could recreate it

The feeling

Like no other

Please grab me again

Press your lips to me

Prevent me from breathing so I can drown in your lips and the feeling I'm experiencing

Oh please darling

Hold me again

Kiss me

Let me sob on the inside

Since I can't physically

Please let me experience that again

Only with you

No one but you

Will ever make me feel as I felt in that moment

In your arms

Feeling nothing but joy

[nixscriptum]

❋ * 𝐅𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 * ❋ for hearts with depth

1. a heart raised on romance 2. the gentleness I stayed for 3. loving without vanishing  4. this is how I keep myself 5. becoming my own favorite story  6. almosts that still live here 7. what we hid in plain sight 8. something old fashioned in the way I care 9. modern love, antique ache 10. don’t romanticize the ruin 11. roses left unclaimed 12. what we called fate 13. affection, reluctantly 14. valentine’s day, no disclaimers 15. the softest surrender 16. if timing had been kinder 17. pressed flowers in a (author's name) novel 18. roses, returned to sender 19. I don’t believe in soulmates, except— 20. the thrill of being understood 21. loving you is not a metaphor 22. flowers that never wilted 23. the romance of ordinary days 24. love, decanted slowly 25. the aftertaste of grace 26. desire with roots  27. mirror to the soul  28. the future I dared to imagine

[bittenbythesun]

Going to turn this blog into somewhere I put my photography and poetry on

Took this a couple weeks ago while walking home

[bittenbythesun]

TW: SLIGHT BLOOD, IMPLIED SUICIDE

This is my first official animation, it's for the trend on TikTok to the song For The Last Time :D

It took me three hours to do 😅