Poet, performer, queer, disabled, lover of all things unusual
This poem started as a challenge from my ex. "Write a poem" "About what?" Glances around the garden where we were sitting
By Jene Stone3 years ago in Poets
Hush now, keep all that pain inside Keep it quiet, keep it still We do not want it's stains upon our tablecloth. Too much. Forever freakish. Your labels are the ones that hold. Don't think, don't try, don't look. But you label my labels Those *I* chose Worthess
The great beast had charged But she stood firm And now astride the thing she rides, Straight backed and proud. Muscles sting and twitch,
By Jene Stone5 years ago in Poets
You burnt a hole through my heart But not with malice, with love. The fire You brought cauterised my wounds, Staunched their bleeding
Numb in my prison stripes Waiting for the next beautiful lie To take me to another world, another life And keep me breathing for some amount of time.
I did not need to travel far To deep and distant lands To find myself because you are Held safe within my hands * Some seek false prophets, magi, seers
We speak in riddles and diversions To shield ourselves from others' gaze With subtle words conceal our persons From youngest youth to oldest age
I dress in black They say that black is not a colour But the absence of colour But I think black is the most beautiful
