it is spring
officially
but what does that mean
for me
and my freezebaby tendencies?
Month: March 2023
March 20, 2023
the puppy playfully pleas
with the cat who can’t help but hiss back
and they paw at each other
and they stare and they struggle
and i hope one future day, they can be real friends
March 19, 2023
the advice
i’ve recently received
is to try to achieve tasks
in threes
a never-ending to-do list
will only bring the vibe low
and with seemingly
nowhere to go
but three is accomplishable
achievable
doable
so, if this will help you
with your strife and life
of complex, minute details
of forever-long to-dos
let me impart to you
what was imparted to me
not too long ago
only
write down
three
and do those
March 18, 2023
after a winter
of our spring plants
threatening to take the mild weather
seriously
(and our fear that early blooming
would mean forever death)
the mid-march mild
(for real this time)
is bringing full blossoms
to our eyes
(and noses)
and i feel like
once again i can
breathe
(calm
and
deep)
March 17, 2023
experiment
with expressions
express the self through
the lens of an outsider
how much kinder
would we be
then
March 16, 2023
am i writing
just for writing’s sake
or am i writing
for mine?
(and is there even a difference?)
March 15, 2023
sitting here
at the corner of my table—
the table i write at daily
but slightly offset
from most mornings—
writing about depression
and despair
and i see a heart
lightly etched into
this table
that came to us
secondhand
the heart could be a human marking
it could be a grain of the wood
it could be a scratch that so perfectly emulated
the hearts we draw
complete happenstance
but i find it
both sanguine
and sad
that while writing poetry
meant to allow
myself to feel those lulls of utter
darkness
i glance over
and see
a symbol
of hope
March 14, 2023
chunky flakes
floating
falling
flailing
from the sky-clouds
towards their kin
is march-month our snowy-winter now?
March 13, 2023
“do you regret
what you’ve done?”
“absolutely not,
nazi scum.”
[a poem inspired by a lesbian couple
on the island of jersey
who harassed nazis for four years
before being caught
and jailed]
March 12, 2023
today is the daylight
when winter first feels like spring
when the solemn bleak nights
wait one more hour
and our mornings
are still fairly filled
with sunlight
(if you get up early enough
but not too early)
today is the daylight
when i start to be able to feel
like i can breathe again
like i can feel again
after months of frozen freezing
over and over and over again
i’m thawing
with the sunlight
because today
is the daylight.
kipventures 