by breathwords | May 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
we are all scars and open wounds filled with all the lives we live and all the deaths we meet we are comprised of a million types of silence only broken by the rapid beating of softly shattered hearts we sink like stones in their sea of sound we swing on a pendulum...
by breathwords | Jun 21, 2019 | Books Teach Me to Breathe
I am A World of Uncertainties Disguised as a Girl by Nicole Lyons Right at the beginning, page 9, I stumbled onto one of the first poems that ever made the breath rush from my lungs. “The Next Big Thing” has since remained one of my all time favorites. Each time it...
by breathwords | Feb 8, 2019 | Drink In the Dark, Extended Exhalations
crystallized drops in a soft-pause-halt before they melt and seep, the red flower blooming in floating maroon down mean streets, gravity aims and pulls, tracing the pathway of veins made victim while garnet stains unfurl over pale white (she chases a free fall...
by breathwords | Jun 11, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
the face in the mirror wavers, unable to hold your gaze while you catalog every flaw and search for minute imperfections (I told you there are none to find) you see the shadows when light is all that pours from your veins, all the reasons you matter safely stored in a...
by breathwords | May 10, 2018 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
This aching anxiousness is holding me far too tight I am searching for peace and aching for quiet — the type of silence that can wash the noise away. My soul is homesick for the ocean, and my heart is crying out for the waves....
