My grandmother always told me

she lived many past lives,

reincarnated as a dragonfly,

a guardian angel by her side.

Pink roses pressed against cold glass,

the cool edge of a birdbath.

She left with a rattling breath,

fading into the quiet of her next life....

(Draft 63, thanks Delilah🥀 for suggesting this one.)

A girl walks on the city sidewalk. People of all ages and races and backgrounds pass her by. There’s so many people. She kicks away a plastic bottle, and rolls her eyes at the honking cars. Finally she makes it to the bus stop. She sits down and waits for the bus.

There’s a song stuck in her head. One without a beat nor a melody. A simple tun...

I’ve been hearing you, Dad. I know you are somewhere close. I just need to find you.

I keep hearing a tune that you used to whistle every morning. I hear it in my dreams at night and even when I am in the pick up line at school. 🤔

It reminds me of the song you used to sing us right before sleep. Something about Cupid? It twas like, “Cupid, lend me your bow before a tantrum I throw.” 😁

OK… The...

‘Happy birthday to youu’

ChA cHa ChA

Cheery voices sing happily

Trying hopelessly to harmonize

‘Happy birthday to you’

cHa ChA cHa

All eyes on me

Me and my desperate attempt to be happy

Happy birthday dear Camilah

Happy birthday to you

I force a smile and tell myself

‘It’s not there fault, they don’t know’

AnD mAnY mOoRe

That one guy belts in the back

I blow out my candles 12, 13…an...

The song never left me. You Spin Me Right Round, baby Right around, like a record baby. Round and round in my head it went, on a loop. Just the chorus. The rest of the song was lost to be burbles and murmurs. Right round baby right round…sometimes I would dunk my head under the water in the bathtub just to stop it. The chorus just would not let me alone, like a fever dream at night when I tried to...

Swinging

Up

And

Down

The playground

Is

My

Home.

‘So you’re still thinking of me, just like I know you should…’

I wonder if

She’s

Thinking

Of me

The air rushing

Into my

Face

‘I cannot give you everything, you know I wish I could.’

I imagine her eyes

I want to give her

Everything,

She deserves it all.

The swing comes up

‘I’m so high at the moment,’

Then down

‘I’m so caug...

A person who has a song stuck in their head constantly?

…

Huh.

Oh, wait, that’s me....

There is no one who ever has done better

At making me feel worse

Now you really are the winner.

There is nothing that ever could quite kill me more than what you did

No you really are the winner

Take a bow cause your the winner....

🎵mama🎵

👹mAmMy👹

🎵just killed a man🎵

👹Pew pew👹

🎵Put a gun against his head🎵

👹oH nOo👹

🎵pulled my trigger, now he’s dead🎵

👹bleurh👹...

You don’t tell your heart to beat.

You don’t need to think to blink.

I don’t have to reach inside,

these words -

they just come out of me.

My mind is a symphony,

I think in a melody,

I fail to hear the sound of me,

But I still call it harmony.

I swear I don’t write poetry,

Most my pieces are like silent music.

These words just sorta come to me,

a muse I find truly amusing.

Let’s speed th...