by breathwords | May 18, 2020 | Words of Wisdom
we are all elegant fury and dismantled dreams we rage against a broken system, caged birds kept behind man-made borders we sought the gardens of tomorrow and found ourselves bound to the mistakes of yesterday, unwilling accomplices in the age of impostors and now, we...
by breathwords | May 16, 2020 | Bright Breaths, Words of Wisdom
i’ve always been fascinated by the kind of art others don’t appreciate, the poetry etched in haste on the bathroom stall, the graffiti scrawled on passing train cars i suppose i love the abstract, the undefined, the stuff we share thinking no one will notice (but...
by breathwords | May 15, 2020 | Extended Exhalations
these sheets hold tightly to heavy bones i made my home in them while the sun rose and fell, wrapped myself up in this cocoon and waited for the night to drip stars from the sky i move within their light, escaping a skim of shadows by melding with the moon i tip toe...
by breathwords | May 13, 2020 | Extended Exhalations
the windows are open, cold air winding through, taking with it the last days of autumn and ushering in the arrival of the first snow blackbird is playing on the radio, the foo fighters version i was never a fan of the way the beatles sounded, but the lyrics are good...
by breathwords | May 12, 2020 | Bittersweet Breaths, Bright Breaths, Simple Sighs
you have always been one of those people who believe in rainbows and mythical dreams you live where coral skies meet cyan seas but me, i am i n c o m p l e t e my heart lingers under midnight skies my shadows still swim inside the storm -ashley...