Poems from victoriamione
he asks me, “what has poetry taught
you?
why is it so important?”
i ponder the question for a moment and
think about the women who ...
stop taping young
people’s mouths shut
and telling us where
our places are
stop screaming over the
voices of tomorrow
and stop telling...
for lives lost
at the end of a gun
and those wounded
at the hands of
a bullet
i pray for
your peace but
more importantly
i pray for
your...
I love you in the morning,
with soft sunlight peeking through the curtains
casting over your sleepy face;
eyes dazed,
smile slanted,
and...
To my depression:
I spent too long loving you
and being held hostage to the
warmth you’d radiate
because I was always so cold
but you made...