A Southern-born-and-raised writer now navigating life in NYC.
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Love in New York City is as magical as it sounds. We were completely in sync, unforgivingly enamored with one another, as we walked without predetermined destinations.
By Kelsey Syble8 months ago in Poets
She extracted herself from the shadows, time and time again, because she had to survive, because there had to be more to this life.
"You will not know true love till you love you," a man says as I wait for my ride. I do not say a word for I know this is the last time.
By Kelsey Syble3 years ago in Poets
Metallic buildings and solemn strangers became the backdrop of my dreams and prayers. And yet, I didn't know what I was searching for
Landlocked from birth, and oblivious to the healing ways of salty air and cold water, until today. It took two decades to arrive here.
It's about Baja Blast freezes, Central Park swinging, and a bond that lasts throughout all seasons. It's about staring contests on the subway,
Sketches of a heart in permanent ink on thick elegant cardstock. Tracings of a body in lighthanded pencil on cheap notebook paper.
The sun sets its gaze upon my first summer alone, as I traipse along a beach brimmed by locals. Time moves swiftly as youth, sensuality, and freedom are returned to me,
By Kelsey Syble4 years ago in Poets
Despite all the ways the man she'd once loved hurt her, she wept for him. Stepping back from the scene, she took a long look at her own mistakes,
A fast car. A white sundress. A watercolor sky melting into the Earth. Kissing on the boardwalk. Entangled against the rails. Smoke billowing above glistening water.
Endless fields of grass and dandelions underneath a blazing sun, the sky blue and bright. That's where you'll find her, twirling within the confinement of her adolescent innocence.
I sat on the floor of my shower the other day. Water drops seeped through my hair, kissed my shoulders, and slid down my back. I pretended that instead of water, they were my feelings for you as they dissipated into the drain.
