storytelling through poetry
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Wet memories
Oceans forget. The lakes remember. Yesterday’s warm moons and cold depths. Today is their ever morrow, the day after before. Lakes will not tell you of now. When they echo back yesterday. They will remind you of the ebbs and flows Of suns and clouds of days passed. Lay in a lake to feel the…
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Bell’s Let’s Talk
Content Warning: This poem mentions suicide. If you or a loved one needs support, check here for resources: https://www.ccmhs-ccsms.ca/mental-health-resources-1 or consider calling your local MP to voice your concern for access to resources: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en Bell let’s talk But if I tell the compassionate academic about my suicidal ideation Their only idea is a 5 day stay…
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My Father’s Jacket
I’m walking to the liquor storein a jacket that reminds me of everyone’s father in 2003 But I know I’m reminiscing more than I’m rememberinglike Joseph and his jacketWith an imagination to make the technicolor brighter. To give flair to a timeto romanticize a crimeOf fashion (and others, it was 2003 after all) We were…
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Don’t fight the ocean
Let me lie my body beside her in the ocean. A stumbling heavy sway crashing me to my knees. She holds me, she holds me, she holds me Let me rest for a little while, curled at the bottom of the sea, close my eyes. She holds me, she holds me, she holds me. “I’ve…
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Honey, I’m home
Half moon kisses across my crown As I show you the tips of my bones; I forgot how to turn on the shower at home. Tell me. I’ve been gone too long. What is home to a forgotten house, Echoes held to string along. Let the sun fall out of the sky each day. Let…
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Mini Wheats (original)
The week my mom went to three funerals, we ate mini wheats (original) for every meal. I was 12 and feeling the heavy air of questions I couldn’t ask while a Costco sized box ceremoniously went in and out of the cupboard, performatively stored away like this was our last time. I’m now 28. I’m…
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5:06 pm
If you tilt your head back, to smile a laugh The trees turn sideways. Perpendicular to their kin on the hillside If you tilt your head back. The gentleness of your lips will push, lifting the weight of the day from your cheekbones, eyelids. The sky in front of you, begging to be consumed. Old…
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Neptune and Jade
The dog stares scared as I go deeper and deeper out in to the hands of Neptune You’re screaming on the shore Held captive by the razor sharp teeth of the rocky banks. You hate rocky beaches. I feel calm. Neptune cradles me to sleep. Jade sings and sings and sings. To me? I listen…
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To Create
I want to create with you Venerable vulnerabilities I would give you any minute of the day How do I open my skull and pour myself into your hands? If your hands aren’t outstretched, will I splash all over you? Pool around your feet? If I pour too much, too fast, will I spill out…
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Wax Poetic by Julia Johnson 