by breathwords | Jul 5, 2020 | Extended Exhalations
our last days of winter were spent inhaling poetry, high on smoke and spice and a whole lot of s o u l, our lungs like hidden chambers filled with a breath of ashes, our hearts like hollow canyons filled with the echoes of prose we took a drag of every line and purged...
by breathwords | Jun 30, 2020 | Bittersweet Breaths
the world keeps changing / in the blink of an eye / and we keep finding ourselves / in places we don’t fit / with people who don’t understand us / let’s run away / follow me / to where the river leads / stay with me / and we will make our home / at the water’s edge /...
by breathwords | May 22, 2020 | Simple Sighs
ingredients: one december moon the burgundy-orange glow of a fiery hearth one tree decorated in lights two hours or more of uninterrupted time together a few gentle endings the promise of beginnings mix thoroughly with a whisper of wishes born under a star on a brumal...
by breathwords | May 20, 2020 | Bittersweet Breaths, Extended Exhalations
i am bending time, twisting fate and reason, holding out for something to believe in but this winter solitude only knows you — all cold logic and bitter truth that leaves me shivering, far from the arms of apricity i trade broken pieces of farewells for a chance at...
by breathwords | May 18, 2020 | Words of Wisdom
we are all elegant fury and dismantled dreams we rage against a broken system, caged birds kept behind man-made borders we sought the gardens of tomorrow and found ourselves bound to the mistakes of yesterday, unwilling accomplices in the age of impostors and now, we...