Tangled limbs, spread apart
Grabbing the dirt, creating art
From between the gap of which I look into
A trickle of crimson I bleed to
Not from where I came from
But from my very own tongue
Tamed to swallow and not to shove
When those push me open and tell me, "enough"
I'm a mad woman, you can see it in my eyes
And I'm so, so, so tired of being nice
In the grassy field where we kissed
You look at me with clenched fists
Bruises I've given you
An iridescent rainbow of only blue
You took a risk to love
To crane your head above
into the sky of my life
Like Armageddon, a swirl of crimson and gray
You laughed when I told you,
"It doesn't work that way."
I oscillate between
camouflage and the need to be seen.
Reframing our picture
With the wood the flesh of our strictures
Hang me up as a psychological experiment
Wrap me in your lace cerement
Getting ready to die from your betrayal.
When I was with you, abstract
Full strings of nonsense to a precise exact.
I had no tongue to speak with
But you settled for the guttural noises
That danced from my throat.
#A Woman's First Blood
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smoky delta
Tangled limbs, spread apart
Grabbing the dirt, creating art
From between the gap...
absolutely wonderful, this is a really good poem! i loved how smooth it worked with the rhymes, not difficult to read at all
rain basin
There's a lot of feminine angst in this one
I thought at first it was about womanhood, and getting your "first time", but now I realize it's about the OTHER type of blood, and the OTHER first time
Of which, it means, the first time you've ever trusted someone with a piece of yourself
But there's something going on in the second half that I can't quite place
You seem frustrated or anguished, but I can't tell why
Perhaps it's the burden of womanhood that frustrates you?
Perhaps, in some way, you felt you weren't ready for what happened?
"I oscillate between camouflage and the need to be seen" goes so hard by the way
It's like the saying "survival over living"
You camouflage as a natural defense mechanism, but that's no way to live
That's a maddening way to go about life, and yet that's just how it'll be
It'll require some elaboration and some studying to fully enjoy, but from what I can see, there's a lot of fire in this post
Well done, hopefully you continue to keep writing
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I thought at first it was about womanhood, and getting your "first time", but no...
bahahah i js woke up to this but im so happy someone got confused by this i am laughing in my bed like a cartoon villain with my cat in my lap
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Well done, hopefully you continue to keep writing
i think i will add on to this piece thak u for the analysis!!
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HAIKUUUBOTTT AYOO!!