Blossoming eyes losing focus on the edges of photographs, blur me out, hollow and sweet like pitted nectarines. A Note About this Poem: I imagined an old photograph with girls smiling, happy, and joyful but the knowledge that they all must be dead or alive somewhere very very old weighs the photograph down. Thank you…
Burn Like Evergreens (poem #276)
The sun dies down and I am slowly eclipsing who I used to be. Will you burn like evergreens in the summer? Will you hold onto the fingers, the hands that pulled you into this world? Will you let them take you out? A Note About this Poem: For this poem, I was inspired…
Poetic Forms: Sonnet
Let’s talk about Sonnets! I wanted to do something different today and decided a short discussion on sonnets would be fun. There are Two Major Sonnet Forms: Petrarchan and Shakespearean The Basic Form of a Sonnet is Fourteen Lines in Iambic [ U unstressed syllable / stressed syllable ] [ u/ u/ u/ u/…
Electric Beats (poem #275)
Electric beats synthetic sounds pulsate the rhythms of the heart glitching and spinning in revolving neon lights. Thank you for reading! Please follow or subscribe to read more poems! -Alina
Currently Reading: Gertrude Stein, Hunter S. Thompson, William Carlos Williams and more
I have so much time to read this summer and I am loving it! Here is a list of what I am currently reading and for what I am currently listening to here is my Spotify Summer Playlist The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein I’ve wanted to read this book for a…