Tag: loneliness

not a pendulum

unsteady at bestinconsistency the only constantI’ll try to be your foothold,though I don’t know what I’ll hold on toone second I’m all yoursthe next I’m lost and alone

this is difficult

to always feel aloneto feel so littlewhere did they goI must have separatedmyself from them

“Fire is dangerous” so…

I’ll keep my socks onin my bedtonightbecause it’s coldand gas is expensiveand there aretoo many housesfor us allto sleep together

this whole thing is upside down

ʎllɐǝɹ oupǝʇɔnɹʇsuoɔ sɐʍ ʞooqǝʇou sᴉɥʇdn ǝpᴉs ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ plǝɥ ǝq oʇɹǝdɐd ƃuᴉʌɐs ʇsnɾ ɯ’Ispɹoʍ ƃuᴉʇsɐʍ puɐɹǝdɐd ƃuᴉʇsɐʍ ɹospɹoʍ ʎɯ ǝʌɐs oʇ ǝuolɐ ɹǝʌǝu ɯɐ I ʎɐʍ ǝɯɐs ǝɥʇǝuolɐ ǝq sʎɐʍlɐ llᴉʍ puɐ

tap your thumbs

that’s how we communicateI miss you:taptap taptaptaptap taptap autocorrect tapsenddid you mean that?did you say that?did yousay what you meant?or mean what you sent?

My eyes strain

to findeven a refraction of your lightshiningbeckoningwelcoming me toshelterfrom thedense grey fogdescended uponthe waters.

My eyes burn as dry

as the well in my pen;My words are as emptyas the thoughts in my head. I hear nothing next to methe place you used to rest;Where I used to listen to you breatheas I felt my heartbeat in my chest.

As Common As Carbon(1024 x 512 px)

How to Use

how to use:

as common as carbon is a poetic stream of consciousness.
there are 3 categories of “poems”:

(i) heteroglossic synesthesia (complete poems)
(ii) hobonyms (words with no homes)
(iii) mind jerky (thoughts to chew on)

after reading a poem you have 3 options to “turn the page”

“RANDOM” – takes you to a random poetic expression
#hastags – take you to another random poem with the same theme or motif
#category – takes you to a random poem in the same category

“no one can step in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person” – possibly Heraclitus

just as no one can step in the same river twice, no one can have the same experience of “as common as carbon” twice