This poem describes the experience of knowing a loved one wants to help you – and their helplessness at being unable to.
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Poetry Can Cure Anything. Even Chicken Pox
A healing poem for two young cousins caught in chicken pox's nasty grip.
I Don’t Know Who Killed Me
A poem about the trauma and injustice of living as a woman in a patriarchal world
An Arachnid’s Ransom, Or Being Kidnapped by a Sociopathic Spider
A poem about a capture by giant, sociopathic and lyrical spider.
An Owlish Gaze: A Poem About Being Blind To What’s In Front of You
While it seems like this is a poem about owls, it also deals with the multiplicity of identities and being blind to the things right in front of you.
Quiet Promises: An Ode to Female Friendships
Here’s to us; to the girls we were, the women we became, and to the women we’re yet to be.
Is Technology Turning Us Into Zombies?
A poem about the monotony of our technology-filled lives – what's real anymore and what's not?
Neatly Folded Genders
A poem about gender, the limiting binary and all its restrictions
The Flap
A poem about our apathy to real-world issues, especially in the age of hyper-present social media
Memoir of a Stutter
A poem on embracing and overcoming the struggle of growing up with a stutter