May 2012
58 posts
April 2012
131 posts
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29/30: "The World."
wordsinajar:
I remember that one time… It felt like I had the world sitting silently in the palm of my hand. I confessed my secrets Like I could shout them to the edges of my fingertips And turned it on its ear just to see another day rise. Peeled the sky’s skin just to whisper into its spine While the cumulus clouds curl themselves into a crescendo Splattering the oceans’ currents and the...
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28/30: "Tell Her."
wordsinajar:
“If hearing her voice is one of your favourite things about being alive, You should tell her.”
But I can’t help but think That everything I could say Would never be able to really tell her.
That I couldn’t copy the penmanship of her soul That I could only sculpt a shadow of her No matter how hard I tried To script the songs in her skin And the stories in her scars.
That I could...
27/30: "Beautiful."
wordsinajar:
She’s a kind of beautiful. She speaks in half heaven, half Holocaust. Part English, part body language Honesty laden with the echoes Of breaking hearts and crashing teardrops. She had a penchant for yelling Over the rooftops at the top of her fingertips And her silence could serenade songbirds.
Head to toe she seemed perfect. Her toes were roots… Dug deep into her history. Toes...
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25/30: "Arts and Crafts."
wordsinajar:
Sometimes… I feel like I’m nothing But your favourite arts and crafts project. Good intentions stapled to bits and pieces Of all the daydreams I’ve had about you. Papier-mache’d my hopes To your reassurances. That abstract painting Hanging lopsidedly on the battered wall. Suspended off the nails you dug into my back Like you were trying to display Your masterpiece from my shoulder...
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24/30: "11 Things I Find Attractive."
wordsinajar:
1. A girl who’s not afraid to smile and laugh. Because there are days when the sun refuses to wake up and leave its covers.
2. A girl that can recommend a great book. Not good, but great. A girl who loses herself in words…and turns them into her own world. A girl who finds knowledge and lessons in her library, showing the value of words and how they can affect someone. How they can...
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23/30: "Fell."
wordsinajar:
I once told this girl that I fell for her…hard. And she didn’t believe me.
Couldn’t fit it in her logic To picture me tripping over my words My tongue tied Shoelaces living a life of their own A backpack full of all the possibilities And worst case scenarios With only an uncertain response waiting for me And my naive heart to break my fall.
And so she asked me… “What really...
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22/30: "Run."
A poem I wrote and performed for a city leaders conference in Mississauga.
wordsinajar:
When they used to ask me What I wanted to be when I grew up I always wanted to say…”Happy.” Wanted to say “Anything but a coward.” “Anything but a failure.” “Anything but a person that settled For everything they are now.”
But I’ve realized… That happiness is not a destination. But a state of mind. It is...
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20/30: "Body Image."
One of the poems I wrote for our Word UP poetry and theatre production in December.
wordsinajar:
Everybody knows… You can’t trust the words of your bathroom mirror. So quick to crucify your imperfections Against your insecurities. So quick to pounce. Always tells you your hair doesn’t look nice. Never tells you you’re beautiful. Never tells you you’re handsome.
That window you hang on the wall...
