#RIME-TIME: Just a Dream
“This was me taking a step towards understanding that people aren’t the fantasies you create about them.” Continue reading #RIME-TIME: Just a Dream
Tag: poetry
#RIME-TIME: The Clouds II
I wrote The Clouds as a two part story/poem; perhaps I’ll continue their story when I’m not questioning my life amongst uni work (r.i.p). If you’d like to read more of the spoopy posts, make sure to check out the #HORROR-SHORROR tags! Continue reading #RIME-TIME: The Clouds II
#RIME-TIME: Tsunamis
From the editor: I read Tsunamis coupled with Mirrors; where each one could be a possible continuation of the other. I love poems with comparisons to the ocean, because I think the ocean carries a depth that suits that of emotions really well. Let me not get senti right now… Continue reading #RIME-TIME: Tsunamis
#RIME-TIME: Mirrors
Mirrors: When reading this poem for the first time, I imagined a conversation between 2 people in a relationship – until I read the final 2 lines. Reading the poem as a whole spoke greatly to the perceptions some of us may have about ourselves… Continue reading #RIME-TIME: Mirrors
#COLLAB: What happens next?
I wrote the poem on a whim, when I was feeling a bit insecure about myself – and my future. Like leaves, we go through different stages of life – I chose to see it as different stages of success. The falling from the tree signals the moving on to something new, the end of dependency…and sometimes that’s scary. The last autumn leaf fell today; … Continue reading #COLLAB: What happens next?
#COLLAB: Ierse dame (Irish miss)
The poem is written as a metaphor. I have PCOS, which does not allow me to menstruate every month as per normal, so this poem is a semi ode to that. I wrote this poem one night when I was feeling particularly saddened/upset about myself… All of the poems I’ve written thus far are in Afrikaans, because I feel the language is able to grasp … Continue reading #COLLAB: Ierse dame (Irish miss)
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