Poem: Caramel

Poem: Caramel

A thousand shades of caramel

waft inward with the wind

as your melting chocolate locks

drip their sugar down your skin.

j.p

Poem: Sugar Rush

A spell of syrup

at the bottom of a cup –

a rush of nausea at

a sudden sugar blast –

I wash down coffee

with a wave of taking

too much on at once:

too much of a sugar rush.

j.p

Poem: Solo

She danced around the room,

looking people in the eyes

as she twirled past them,

never meeting the same gaze

twice. In the flashing lights,

spinning late into the night,

she was untouchable,

her tears dripping like sweat,

catching light like diamonds,

slipping, unseen, to the ground

as she kept gliding forward,

spinning late into the night.

j.p

Poem: Fixing

I don’t want to chop my hair off;

I don’t want to sweep the floor.

Years-old strategies for fixing me

aren’t fitting anymore.

Find a new job and new wardrobe

to suit up my older self.

Grow my hair out. Make new friends.

Light a candle. Make a mess.

When I whittled myself down for weeks,

who but I should wield the broom

to brush away the parts I’ve shed

and build myself anew?

j.p

Poem: Going Ghost

No wind brings whispers of love and beauty--

my own shivers in the cold are all that move me.

I’m going ghost in the midnight hours,

a new-born vampire when I look in the mirror.

I sit with faceless fuzzy creatures and a can of fizzy water,

having a name and face and being someone’s daughter,

in good company through this blanching night--

a place to be and sit awhile, to make myself alright.

j.p

Writeblr Tag Game

Writeblr Tag Game

Tagged by @that-chibi-writer

1. What is your favorite type of character to write?

I like writing about bookish characters and ones with a lot of wit.

2. What is one theme in your WIP?

I would go with “trust” even though it’s not too far along.

3. What’s one physically unique character you have?

I haven’t been writing prose as often as I used to, but one character I was drafting a while back had a prosthetic below their knee.

4. What public spaces inspire you?

Libraries, coffee shops, and quiet spots around campus (I like to have some background noise when I write).

5. Do you share your writings with your friend/family?

I post some of my poetry here, where some of my friends are able to see it. I don’t usually share my prose nowadays unless it’s for a class.

6. Favorite book to movie adaptation?

 The 2005 movie Pride & Prejudice, adapted from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It’s one of my all-time favorite movies. ^^

7. Favorite villain trope?

Villain-turned-hero (if the character is still redeemable in the context of the story despite their wrongdoings).

8. Out of context spoiler for your WIP?

Trust can be tricky?

9. What is your least favorite kinds of characters to write?

I can’t think of any.

10. What’s one of your favorite author fantasies?

It’s really cool when people pick up on the hidden meaning of something I’ve written (beyond the literal). It’s something I saw happen with a poem I wrote for a class I took last semester, and it made me feel like an effective writer (shout-out to the people who did that peer review).

Who I’m tagging: @jonaswpoetry @blossomfully @themagicinmypen @iamktb13 @gracebabcockwrites