Samantha Writes

And despite all the times
That I said I would never be,
I am just like my fucking mom.
History repeats itself
And we still learn nothing.

You told him,
you weren't expecting him to save you.

Silly girl.
You're all late nights, and split decisions,
You're fickle and fluttering about,
You're a reckless tangle of contradictions,

And you think you might save yourself now?

#saveyourself #poem #poetry #writer

The Exquisite Pain of Wanting Something You Can't Have

You are a balloon
Inflating in my chest.
Pressing against my ribs
The pressure builds.
There is no easy way to let it out.

The bones crack
The balloon pops
And all that empty space caves in.

#poetry #poem #poemaday #write #writer
#longing

There are times I look over to find
that a straw man has been left in his shoes.

So I spin out on background noise
and scoll my way into dopamine loop-de-loops.

We lose days at a time like this.

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#originalpoem #poetry #poet #writer #poemaday #alanon #onedayimightmove

#originalpoem #poetry #poet #writer #poemaday #alanon #onedayimightmove

But today I am
Just a sea
Trying to make
Peace with all the wreckage.

- Rudy Francisco

#poetry #poemaday #wreckage

A 7 year old girl with blonde hair. Her face is painted like a skull in black and white. She's blowing up a yellow balloon with a smiley face on it and looking at the camera.

It's the contrast I remember best.
The macabre and the serene.
Deep in grief for days and we never picked up the balloons.
The room was full of pinks and purples and a light tap tap tapping whenever we walked through.
Surreal, isn't it?
How life teases you?

#poem #OC #photography #grief #poetry

.
So tired
And it feels hard as a fist,
My womb.
So eager to hold life
That it rends itself open
Under each full moon.
Pleading.

I'll be more delicate,
next time.

#poetry #poem #writer #writeaboutit
#original #period #fullmoon #miscarriage

"Poets are alchemists of nothingness"
Love that!

Pain's Gravity"

Don't talk to me
About picking battles,
I am balancing
Daily.

My heartstrings taut
With the pull of each hurt
Tugging at me.

Woman on a
Goddamn wire,
I have to give in
Occasionally.

#poem #photography #poetry #writer #original
#gravity #poet #prose #poemaday #givein

Tangled up and drunk on sleeping in.
You say it's like a drug,
the morning light
dancing on my skin.

#poetry #originalphoto #photography #writer #sleepin #poemaday #monochrome #pictureandapoem

Can't you see it?
Beauty seeps into life
at the seams.
Rip at them.
Rend them open.

#poetry #poem #originalphoto #writer #beauty #ladybug #findbeauty #photography #bigsur #naturewalk #poemaday

Ode to my cat (who is now 10)

Frisco:
Knower of shadows,
Born for the night.
Scratcher of itches,
A witch's delight.
Thoughtful companion,
Eyes bursting of spring.
I'll be forever grateful,
that you've shared this life with me.

#blackcat #poem #catpoetry #cats #cateyes #poetry #ode #frisco

His voice rises and I can feel
My heart turn into a rabbit.
No sudden moves.

His fist hits the table and my heart jump jump jumps
into far off tall grasses.

Stay still, little bunny.
You can become invisible
until the fox moves on.

#poem #bunny #poetry #rabbitheart

There's this buzzing in my brain,
but I'm finding different ways
to hold myself,
still.
.
.
.
#poem #poetry #poemaday #writer #holdstill

If I can be your clothes
I'll hang off all your bones
Every hour
Every day

- "Your Bones" by Mura Masa

#muramasa #yourbones #lyrics
#poetryinmotion

My anxiety is a bird on my shoulder.
The shadow of a bird, really.
Becuase it can't sit still.
Its agitation blurs the very lines that try to define it.
A black cloud.
A pencil smudged across the paper.

I never look at it directly.
But maybe I should.

#poetry #poem #poemaday #writer #anxiety

The last hug
you will get from someone you love
comes without warning.
It's a hug goodbye before
the trip that takes their life.
Or a casual embrace
some weeks before
your father's arms fall prey
to ALS.
What a gift it would be to know ahead of time.
You could squeeze that much harder.
#poem

Maybe if I picture it
over and over and
over again,
It will come true.
Bending reality to my will.
What is reality anyway?
But a story we tell ourselves
over and over and
over again.

#poem #poetry #poemaday #newreality #writer
#musings #poet #photography #colors #vivid #overandover

All I want from you is a letter,
and to be your distant lover.

That is all that I can offer
at this time.

#lyrics #poetry #sylvanesso #music #quotes #distantlover

I was real. I was there.
We had burned ourselves through at the center.
Our eyes slid by each other,
Lived in limbo
Up, down, up and down again.
No one deviates from our rotaing
Piece of planet.
Only I hear the actual crumbling
Down of real life.

#blackout #poetry #collage #roguejournal #poem

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

I used to know my bones
I could suck out the marrow to produce poems
and it would feel like healing

Now i've mastered the art of distractions
I maroon myself in mountain cabins
And still find ways to ignore

My bleeding heart

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Screaming into
the void
over and
over and
over again.

Nothing ever changes.

It's easy to forget
The person I was
or am
or will be.

I get lost in the details
seperating you from me.

Unable to keep track of my own cells
as they change.

My god, this life is so strange.

#poetry #poem #whereiendandyoubegin
#parenthood #photography #family #hands

You click the headlamp off
and I stop midsentence
as the stars open up
around us.
We breathe deep.
Two warm bodies
in a lonely sea of grass.

I wish we could always be that close.

#poetry #poem #write #writer