Ellie Hoovs

Joined December 2020

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Breathing life into the lost and broken. Writes to mend what fire couldn't destroy. Poetry stitched from ashes, longing, and stubborn hope.

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Wonderland
The glass was leaded Too mired to reframe To ridgid and heavy to shimmer At the sound of your name That breezed through my lips,
By Ellie Hoovs2 months ago in Poets
Origami Heart
I folded my plans into paper cranes they can't fly but they might... someday. You laugh at me like I'm insane, crumpled dreams going to waste,
By Ellie Hoovs3 months ago in Poets
Truth or Dare
If you dare ask, I will tell you something true, deep from the fires of my Virgo sun if you challenge me, try to cut me down
By Ellie Hoovs4 months ago in Poets
Barefoot Mornings
My toes drink the morning dew lingering on blades still emerald despite the creeping chill of fall. My soles feel the rhythm of the earth,
By Ellie Hoovs4 months ago in Poets
Hurricane
You took warmth from the bodies 'beneath' you, wrapped it around yourself, always spiraling with your tropical air,
By Ellie Hoovs4 months ago in Poets
Stone Fruit
They plucked me from my branches before I was yet ripe, tempted by my velveteen softness, skin that blushed delicately,
By Ellie Hoovs5 months ago in Poets
First Fruits
How many times did I rip up and replant these roots just to wilt in the searing heat, untended, un-watered. How many times did I think
By Ellie Hoovs5 months ago in Poets
The Great Train Robbery
I was born with silver bullets lining my tongue, always quick on the drawl, a heart that hammers in hooves, the spirit of wild mustangs,
By Ellie Hoovs5 months ago in Poets
A Poet's Hereafter
Someday there will be rest, when life's fickle breezes calm, and my breath stills with it, the sky will fade from indigo
By Ellie Hoovs5 months ago in Poets
Florescence
I am an echo of longings planted in red, southern, earth, blooming fierce, incandescent yellow, rivaling the sun, and the tips of flames.
By Ellie Hoovs5 months ago in Poets
Grown-up Friend?ships
It was simple once, a shared donut, a borrowed pencil, a smile in a crowded hallway. Tiny gives, tiny takes, bearing soft silent witness.
By Ellie Hoovs5 months ago in Poets
Colonized Kernels
They took the beautiful, native, wild, untamed rainbow of it, forced it into rows, indistinct, cultivated obedience,
By Ellie Hoovs5 months ago in Poets

Ellie Hoovs

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Wonderland

Origami Heart

Truth or Dare

Barefoot Mornings

Hurricane

Stone Fruit

First Fruits

The Great Train Robbery

A Poet's Hereafter

Florescence

Grown-up Friend?ships

Colonized Kernels

Achievements (6)