bootlegpoem

[bootlegpoem]

Once I tried to put

Out a fire with pine needles

This feels just like that

[bootlegpoem]

Looking back I realize that no one was ever really there for me. No one stayed after my graduation, no one came to wish me luck in college. No one meets me for lunch, no one waves to me in the hallway. Yet people ask me, “why do you want to leave?” “Isnt this all you know?”. And I answer, “because I want to.” And I think to myself, if no one was ever really there, then doesn’t that mean I was meant to leave. I mean, there is nothing for me here, and there never has been.

-it’s quite lonesome really

And I could probably write this better, and make my words feel like the colors changing with the seasons. Make them impactful like a hail storm that hits to close to home. But if I did that, they wouldn’t be my words. They would be yours too.

[bootlegpoem]

Poem #80

Rushing, surging, pressing forward. Locks loom in the distance but I don’t know how to stop. 

[bootlegpoem]

First time your child learned to speak, when you looked into the eyes of your love, when you achieved your dreams. We experience so many such moments in life when our feelings can't be expressed. And those moments stay deep in our core forever❤💞

[bootlegpoem]

Paint Chip Women III.

Sweet Juliet

Oh what did they say to you

to make you act this way

you used to be so sweet, Juliet

Now look what you’ve gone and done

perhaps when you were small

they made you skin your knee

they told you something hurtful

or made you think bad things

did they say something about your dress?

your hair?

the way you walk?

Look what you’ve gone and done, Juliet

I’m so proud of you

[bootlegpoem]

//// a.b.solomon

[bootlegpoem]

The one thing I don't want to be is a burden to anyone.

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[bootlegpoem]

Love wasn’t designed for someone like me

As I move from one strange bed to another

Spending as much of my free time as possible

Tangled in unfamiliar sheets

That smell like unfamiliar smells

While a new set of lips trace my own

So i don’t have to face the pieces

Of my broken heart

Or the idea that I might end up alone

—K.L

[bootlegpoem]

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

— Joseph Conrad

[bootlegpoem]

The moon hid in the clouded skies

As it refused to watch the darkened white crusade

That uttered psalms and spilled its tears

In hope that god may bring forth drought.

[bootlegpoem]

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to figure it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[bootlegpoem]

Caring was not enough. In that spit moment, the real message was shown to me. It felt like I was froze for an entire day. When I slowly start to see sun, my eyes wanted me to see all this sadness. But it is wrong because my heart has once again found the way to self loving and caring. Being a better me than I was before.

B.P. ❤️

#bp #poem #love yourself #self love #poetic #poetry #self care #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #spilled ​poetry #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #be kind

[bootlegpoem]

Doom on the sun!

Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The New Centenary Edition; from ‘Find meat on bones’

[bootlegpoem]

[bootlegpoem]

The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

[bootlegpoem]

I don't recall a single care / Just greenery and humid air / Then Labor Day came and went / And we shed what was left of our summer skin / On the night you left I came over / And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders / Our brand new coats so flushed and pink / And I knew your heart I couldn't win

- Death Cab For Cutie, “Summer Skin” from Plans

[bootlegpoem]

But when something good happens to me, I am trying to keep it. For as long as it cares my heart so deeply. Lovingly. Not letting it hurt me, I am taking care of it so protective. What I want, the best happiness for me, and this amazing thing that is happening to me. This happiness is what I have been searching for, for so long. I do not want to let it go now.

B.P. ❤️

#bp #poem #poetry #poet #poetic #spilled ink #spilled poem #spilled thoughts #be kind #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #self love #self care #love yourself