Creating Poetry for the Joy of It

A place for me to post poems! I am a 21 year old cis female and I promise to any irl friends who may decide to follow this blog that I won't post too many romantic poems bc that shit can be gross and personal

[chips4u]

THE CRESCENT BEAST

THE SKY SLICER

THE DREAD WALKER

Thank you Cheesy Studios for making me aware of this incredible Lego set 🫡

[karaswords]

Socially unacceptable grief

How do I explain to my boss That I can't be at my meeting today Because a family friend passed away It sounds so insignificant I really only saw him once a year But that weekend was so much to me Not just because it was a "vacation" Or a time when my father was truly relaxed But because of the people All those men were my connection to my uncle To my dad's past To my own queer history Every loss hurt It felt like the summers my childhood slipping away But this is different It's not fair to lose someone the same year you start calling them the gay uncle you never had Especially when he knew the gay uncle you should've had It doesn't feel like I'm allowed to be this sad You were the only valid Disney adult I ever knew You taught me that it's okay to hoard neat things and let your collection sprawl You always treated us like family I miss you and I hope that you sleep well I'll probably go to my meeting anyway But my world is colder now

[karaswords]

A Sacred Email

My first email address

My childhood email address

I have finally returned to it

At first all I see is spam and garbage

Mass deletions

But then

I check the oldest emails

Excited messages between little girls

Sweet messages from a lonely old grandfather

Random emails from my parents

It is all so precious

I work harder to purge the offensive spam

The overwhelming marketing

I must preserve these documents

Tender memories from my youth, long forgotten

Abandoned

But now I remember them

I can save them

I can hold them in my heartdrive forever

How many people are so lucky to have such documentation of their youth?

How could I have let it become so overgrown?

Never again

[karaswords]

When does a lifelong love of learning turn into a semester long fear of failing?

[karaswords]

Not poetry but an accidental picture I took today that I thought looked pretty neat

[karaswords]

Sometimes the catharsis you need

Is passing gas while meditating

And that's alright

[karaswords]

The leaves change into fall colors His bangs grow ever more silver So mature We change together as the days go by I love him more every day Even as the leaves fall away

[karaswords]

Corporate Isolation

All I want to do is live near my friends, The people I love But I need a job Because money runs the world But the man wants me to move Wants me to change Wants me to "go outside my comfort zone" Wants to isolate me Wants me to make friends with my coworkers instead I spent 21 years getting comfortable I'm not going to upend my life For a paycheck

[karaswords]

I have long thought that the feeling of love must be exaggerated in Movies Books Songs Poems And everywhere else that people declare their love But you have made me realize how strong a feeling love can be I understand now how you can miss someone so deeply it aches in your bones and How adding someone to the circle that you call family is as rewarding as it is now that much harder to be apart and How making you apart of my life has made me happier than I could ever imagine and more incurably lonely than I thought possible Never have I been more helpless in my desire Or more pathetic in my endless needing to be with you I have been powerless against the absolute terror that one day you might not be in my life anymore But everything is worth it to feel your touch To have your arms wrap around me and to feel your warmth against my hands To know that I am safe with you heart, mind, body, and soul