hauntedgardenking

[hauntedgardenking]

The skull is a garden where I eat cocoons admiring the frogs and earth worms

Let me stay here

The sigil is protective

Smokes for each cardinal direction

God knows I’ve never wrote about you

My breath is tender; this blanket for divorce lawyers

We were so young we’d stagger crt tvs

And I punched that boy in the mouth

The rain came in sheets, I wish I could apologize

Cannabis kiss me; two traumatized children

Fourteen is too young

We were just kids

#i don’t think i’ve had the courage to write about this #still it’s obscured because that’s what i do #hey kristen #i hope you’ve had a good life #love #spilled ink #nostalgia #poet #twcpoetry #poetry on tumblr #poetry #spilled words

[hauntedgardenking]

The skull is a garden where I eat cocoons admiring the frogs and earth worms

Let me stay here

The sigil is protective

Smokes for each cardinal direction

God knows I’ve never wrote about you

My breath is tender; this blanket for divorce lawyers

We were so young we’d stagger crt tvs

And I punched that boy in the mouth

The rain came in sheets, I wish I could apologize

Cannabis kiss me; two traumatized children

Fourteen is too young

We were just kids

#poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #life #poem #I don’t think I’ve had the courage to write about this #still it’s obscured because that’s what I do #hey Kristen #I hope you’ve had a good life #sorry from a kid that was equally scared

[hauntedgardenking]

“From a head full of pressure

Rests the senses that I clutch

Made a date with divinity but she wouldn't let me fuck

I got touched by a hazy shade of "God, help me change"

Caught a rush on the floor from the life in my veins”

#atmosphere #god’s bathroom floor #some days are easier than others #hey I’ve been sober for 6 years now though #Youtube

[hauntedgardenking]

My sins belong to me, just me

I can't begin to tell you how much it hurts that we don't talk at all anymore. It hurts running into you at the supermarket, you and your baby, Christina running errands somewhere else, maybe on Mars; you smile at me like that comes easy; I shake off a ten-year-old paranoia for three full minutes. It's exhausting. It's Jesus dying on the cross. It works but it takes everything. Thick fat fatigue, regret.

#poetry #writerscreed #poeticstories #poetblr #writeblr #twcpoetry #abstractcommunity #recognizingthevoiceless #spilled ink #poetry on tumblr #wernerherzogshave #not mine #this hits like a Mac truck

[hauntedgardenking]

I’m extremely honored to be amongst some truly amazing artist, poets, and the like!

Issue 1 has released digitally. Thank you to everyone who contributed.

@mickmalone @seraphinesaintclair @wernerherzogshave @thechroniclesoforphic @hauntedgardenking @lauramaywrite @cemetery-fox @imfullofworms @accessyoursoul @andileighwrites @barbarabezina

#midsummer dream house #poetry #literature #literary magazine #photography #writing #artists on tumblr #art #music #fiction

[hauntedgardenking]

A little Coltrane on this sunny day while watching the cars pass by.

#music #spotfiy #john coltrane #my favorite things #now if I had an espresso and a cigarette #Spotify

[hauntedgardenking]

i am truly delusional enough to live a fulfilled life with only the moon, the trees, and the flowers as my only companions. They speak the temporal languages I understand perfectly: transience and eternity

#this is poetry to me #man this slaps me in the face #thanks I’m stealing this #poetry

[hauntedgardenking]

i am wishes for bacchanalia, clothes torn, and sun-soaked in awe

i am prayers for godwarmth roiling from vishuddha to svadhishthana

i am root down, but skull split cosmic in my endless dreams

i am ever ending, never beginning palm ready witching hours only

i am milky way pupils to thousandhead aching godhead breathe in

i am eyes and eyes and eyes infinite across millennia

i am everlasting pursuit drishti singing om shanti om

#poetry #self portrait #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #life #love #I’m sorry I’m not trying to appropriate anyone’s culture here #I just needed words #call me a thief

[hauntedgardenking]

“Please help to make the world you’re living in better”

#music #the chemical brothers #spotfiy #I remember getting this cd as a freshman in high school #Spotify

[hauntedgardenking]

The super heroes were smoking in the park to catch a glimpse of carving arms inside of bathroom stalls. They were all aware of the miracles about to occur, and yet swallowed millions of angels. Yes, yes, they were certainly filling the ashtrays in hungry southpaw movements. Each one knew it could fill ink length wise in each other’s arms. And once winter had danced to the gardens, they could no longer stutter out chimney yawning. It’s a damn shame really. They were always all so photogenic in grieves and enemies organs, but in winter white it sapped their color clean from bone. They often kissed the smoke back into each other’s mouths to starve the bees inside of their lungs, but really it didn’t work as they wanted. The nest just turned, and the cold ate them all with the mangoed bodies.

#ancient poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #superheroes #drugs are bad mmkay

[hauntedgardenking]

The spell of the Rockies. 1911. Endpaper.

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#nature illustration #endpaper #forest #mountain #nemforg #1911 #1910s

[hauntedgardenking]

Please tell me about your place in your family

#writing #poetry #poets on tumblr #meandering around my place in block text #happy birthday curlicues #definitely digging this!

[hauntedgardenking]

In the grayness of whisky-pitched hip swing

I’ll no longer lull about; a tetrahedron widened

From forever and a day I’m still singing lord

For only the soles of my feet know geography

Sacred geometry inside of some 2014 hope

And I’ve had ample time to pray all temples

Crest the river banks and chorus of frogs

I’ve idolized my illiteracy and sank in dope

Junkies and thieves knew how to do the twist

The nostalgia of damp farmhouse air

Stings my nostrils as much as the poppy fields

We’d lay around in, hand in hand

#poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #life #love #nostalgia #spilled ink #poem #I just want to dance with someone to twee music #this is an invitation #come dance with me #I’ll let you choose the records #wear socks my tile floor is cold

[hauntedgardenking]

I’d always wanted gutter roommates meditating on medication through the lens of poets I’d loved; offer my eyebrows to Rimbaud, handle of fervent adolescence unbridled like do the fucking laundry. I had these dinner dates sweating luxurious in a studio apartment; here is where Ginsberg chanted over teacups or bent spoons. I often thought I’d write you into a lexicon vibrant through telescoped dollar bills; your eyes are so green. We’d danced summer dew to waking, and I was shaking the next day around noon. I think there’s hundreds of ways to admit that I’d loved you, but my guitar strings are long dead and I misplaced my 4-track tape recorder.

#poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #life #love #tw: drugs #looking at things through the lens of sobriety #like my life is good #but i remember #I hope everyone I love is okay #prose poetry

[hauntedgardenking]

The leaves in the ripeness of August start to fall in Autumn's name

It's times like these where I find myself bursting out in laughter,

Not particularly in joy or madness

It wasn't a religion that brought me home, no,

But it was something that bounced from star to star, spinning in the rings of Saturn

Not only found in the sky, but with the bugs and decay in the soil, here on Earth

I guess that's why I laugh. How absurd! How blatant and present

I welcome winter with my chest open

Bring in the cold, let me sleep with the trees

By Spring I'll have a new ring of life

#poetry #poem #sneezied #prose #spinning in the Rings of Saturn #I’ve been trying to capture this feeling of what a wonder it is to be alive #you’ve done it! #check this person out #making beautiful poetry

[hauntedgardenking]

Run a trail of kisses down to my elbow

I’d crush three hours of sleep for pinned pupils

Midnight alacrity and accelerated for sunshine

I’ll always ask for a present of lips before you go

You take my breath away; my favorite purple dress

#poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #past lives #romantic #love

[hauntedgardenking]

Merry Christmas everyone

#music #tom waits #christmas #youtube #I stopped taking dope #I quit drinking whiskey #man it’s weird hearing rain on Christmas #this house is so quiet #had a fleeting thought about relapsing #but nah