TheSpinstress

Joined July 2017

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Not You
The pain that kept me up all night; it wasn't you I missed some guy I used to love; it wasn't you. . The wind that rattled at my windows shook me up
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
I still have nothing to compare to your eyes. Top Story - March 2024.
Why would I tell you I love you when I could tell you the truth? That I have wanted you more than anything; that you were all I thought about for months.
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
More Ways to Learn Hindi for Fun
It's been 3 years since I wrote How to Learn Hindi for Fun, and I'm still learning, because - spoiler alert - it's fun! In the meantime, I've discovered several more tips and resources that have helped me out, so it seems like it's time for an update.
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Lifehack
Panic
I am writing poems, more poems, about him. It has occured to me in a fluttering panic that my shoddy attempts might be the only poems about him -
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
Before
I believed in the laws of physics before I met you before sixty minutes started being twenty before two and a half hours in the palm of your hand
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
Island
I remember dead whale on the beach, enormous and small at the same time, Minke, not stinking like people said it would but not exactly emitting an aroma for sore noses either; we were told not to touch it so we compromised, one fingertip each.
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
Timebomb. Content Warning.
It amazes me how I keep on ticking on in the usual way when I know that my terrorist heart is building a nail bomb ready to slash up my life
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
City Girl
You are supposed to like trees, Butterflies and birds and bees And all the nasty bits of nature In this pursuit, I am a failure.
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
Love in the Wrong Place
Love in the wrong place I feel it as hunger and answer it: a chocolate bar dipped in a jar of peanut butter, a punnet of strawberries and cream,
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
No is a complete answer.. Content Warning.
My instincts scream danger, so I walk right in. Colourblind myself - let the games begin. My conscience protests but you silence the din,
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
What's New in Our 2024 Update
You blocked this contact despite being in love with them for months. Well done. That was hard. . Do you want to back up this chat?
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets
The Poet Does Not Sleep With The Muse
The poet does not sleep with the Muse. Not even when drunk on his whisky eyes out of it on the scent of his skin trapped in the heat of his breath
By TheSpinstress 2 years ago in Poets