A touch upon the skin Easy and gentle Warm and sincere Has the power to push a magnitude of troubles out of realm Photography by: Sahin Yesilyaprak
Tag: Love
A Sickness of Man’s Creation
An illness is ravaging the land Spreading not by coughs or sneezes nor by the touch upon skin This sickness is dispersed by words Constructed from faulty ideals Reinforced with erroneous theories And solidified askew doctrines This pathogen doesn’t tire the muscles or inflict one with a blistering fever But it has slaughtered many because…
It’s A Mad, Mad World
She was once taught to discern the essence of a person by how they treat the people around them If they treat people with respect then they are respectful If they treat people with love then they’re loving If they treat people with spite then they’re spiteful If they treat people with hate then they’re…
Window Dressing
Savor the words you speak Ponder on the actions you commit Because if you’re ugly on the inside the outside it just meaningless window dressing photography by: Malvestida
Spring
Life is being refreshed New beginnings swirl in the pollen-infused air Some relationships are energized with the brighter days and warm temperatures While others are still in turmoil from the mayhem winter enacted. Photography by: Krystina Rogers
A Solitary Being
She was strange don’t you see… In this Tinder age Swiping for a good time Setting up a profile to hook a good match She’d been foreign to it all A touch. A kiss. A heart longing for another. She was an alien to intimacy An onlooker to infatuation and passion Was she a weird…
Fruits
People are the fruits they produce. Kindness or hatred Love or malice Generosity or greed Photography by Joanna Kosinska
Dwell Less
Dwell less on a person’s size. Care little about someone’s hue Be more concerned with their qualities as a human. Dwell less on Tall…Short Skinny…Fat Black…White Poor….Rich Urban…Suburban Vegan….Carnivore See the true essence of the person Compassion, generosity, kindness Things that the soul feels and the eyes can’t realize Photography by: Tobias Zils
Forced Onward
He stood in the busy airport With everything he owned in a backpack Staring at the departure screen Knowing two things with surety There was nothing left for him in his hometown and there was nowhere he wanted to be but there. Photography by Erik Odin
Writer’s Block
A wall of brick and concrete Mortared by doubts From the rejections gliding into the inbox Constructed with words pertaining to the fitness of your craft Slaughtering ideas, plot, and dialogue Chocking creativity and murdering epilogues Disillusioning you in a world To believe the hundreds of paragraphs Whimsical metaphors And lyrical lines You birthed…
Peppermint Sunshine 