Poetry
I used to be in a slam poetry team and competed in 2017-2018, and then joined my university's slam team to continue my trend of firmly placing last because I don't activism right and I write poems about weirdass shit. So I have a surprising amount of poetry that's been written, and more to be written as I start writing for myself and not in hopes my slam team will respect me, since I won't be rejoining after things open back up. (They prob'ly don't want me anyway. Screw 'em. I think my poetry's great.)
Poems with unknown dates cannot be dated due to hard drive failures in early 2018 and 2021. Poems caught in a third-floor elective classroom were written during / for my creative writing elective in early 2022. (Thank you for the semester, Prof. Hunter. It was awesome, I'll miss it forever.)
- 21/06/2022 - Monsters Among Mortals - on romantic attraction and prey drives
- 11/04/2022 - The Winter Solstice Feast (collab.) - on the beginnings of the horsemen
- 10/04/2022 - The Great Sea March - on giving up and accepting you can never leave the sea
- 31/03/2022 - carve deep the altar of strife - on the very first temporary tattoo of one's own choosing
- 26/03/2022 - sav(our) - on the meal you shared with the champion of chaos
- 21/03/2022 - Gardensong - on why people shouldn't challenge the skyrose garden on their own soil
- 28/02/2022 - That Birthstone Glade - on the recurring dream of county cheatharlach
- 21/02/2022 - Compiler Errors - on a classmate promising you a review and never getting it and deciding it's your fault, actually
- 25/12/2021 - To Trust In You - on the mysterious stranger that kidnapped your heart
- 23/12/2021 - The Edge of Dusk - on the last memory of salvation
- 23/12/2021 - Desert Poem - on the watcher you pulled down from the heavens
- 13/11/2020 - So Here's to the Night - on surviving. if nothing else, on surviving.
- 03/08/2020 - Faery Rings Like Wedding Bands - on being a bit wild at heart
- 12/05/2020 - And It Comes Down to Blood and Fire - on being a living ghost of a person you don't even like or resemble
- 22/04/2020 - Weeping Willow's Wedding Bells - on love and the excitement of the future
- 22/04/2020 - Five Minutes of an Almost Home - on airports, coming home, and leaving home
- 27/02/2020 - Echoing Gold, Resounding Silver - on not being liked by the entire slam team because you're too weird even for them
- 27/02/2020 - In Kismet Rapture - on trying to untangle religion and activism
- 27/02/2020 - Amputee - on realizing you buried the person you were
- 26/02/2020 - Innocent Blood Like Black and White and Red - on writing dark fiction and children being mad about it
- 26/02/2020 - Marcescence Over the Music Box - on remembering how to stop writing so much depressing shit
- 05/02/2020 - And the Sun Sets on a World on Fire - on activism and the world finally seeing the dead
- 22/12/2019 - No Pain, No Game - on having a badly broken leg and being the physically healthiest person in the house
- Autumn 2019 - Shards of Summer - on being terrified of what's to come
- 23/06/2019 - Silver World and Ghostly Scars - on living through internet cults
- 31/03/2019 - That Impossible, Certain Present Where You Save Me - on the miracle of soulmates
- 24/03/2019 - Highway 17 West Like a Falling Star - on having your post-suicide-date breakdown
- 24/03/2019 - Overmorrow on the River of Time - on the other part of that breakdown
- Summer 2018 - Our Last Summer - on surviving, on love, on laughing in the face of death itself
- 03/06/2018 - You Will Never Be Pretty. - on the rage you feel at utterly pointless hatred
- 05/05/2018 - The Cost of Blood - on violence and love and no, not like That
- 20/08/2017 - A Single Candied Blossom - on the part of the hivemind they don't tell you.
- Summer 2017 - An Ending in Potentia - on trying to save what can't be fixed
- Spring 2017 - Days of the Magic Kingdom - on never awakening because you never had the wilds
- 07/04/2017 - Sleepy Dreamy Afternoon - on being together and still knowing nothing, yet.
- 07/11/2016 - Still the Horsemen May Come - on tasting the sorrow in the air. check the date.
- 10/09/2016 - Evermore. - on the sunset down highway ten
- 25/08/2016 - Just to the West of that Spatial Freeway - on the pivotal points you remember
- 13/07/2016 - How to Be a Fictional Character - on the cruel irony of waking up again
- 30/06/2016 - Learning to Ride - on finding freedom in something tangible
- 25/06/2016 - The Twice-Lit World - on seeing your fantasy forest as the horror story it is
- Spring 2016 - Winds from Another World - on remembering your story
- 29/04/2016 - Watchful in the Streets - on trying to see a hivemind everywhere
- 11/04/2016 - An Ode to an Angel I Once Knew - on regret and immortality
- 02/04/2016 - Devil's Pleasure - on beginning, ever so slightly, to wake up
- 29/03/2016 - Quiet Joy - on seeing beauty where it isn't appreciated
- 23/02/2016 - Soulbinding? Soulbinding. - on the freedom of going somewhere new
- 23/02/2016 - Soulbound? Soulbound. - on waking up someone else
- 28/09/2015 - Depend on Me - on loss, questing, and futility