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We’ve been sold the idea of the hustle

Turning monster into mouse   ( fiction – based poem )   Is a man only a monster if he just  makes you cry? What if you can’t remember some of those moments whenever you try?   What if he was a full rounded person whilst he secretly

Or not at all. I used to do ‘notice me’ pull ups to try to impress

thinking

Can I ask you a question? how women are judged

Anthem I rise I don’t care what the digs are I float up into the air Dance with winds and twist my wrists As if never having a care We...

Sweetness and light with others, I get the other side of you - privately, sneakily

The fool and the cassette untangled Tarastar

those with power, you can dress it up

Well, that just flowed.. poetry diary, poetic, owned Ray of light I’m too everything Too much, too rushed Not enough clutch No brakes No slow down A dreamer, not a ‘realist’

It’s hard being the first It’s hard slamming breaks on and being treated like a curse

I see. I remember.

For me, women are sunshine, frozen rain and rainbow power We are the thunder they don’t see coming Our bodies the implements they can instr

in the rain, making something out of nothing, dry ground, stormy spells, torrential falling, happiness fell, compare and contrast, squirm

Tara star

Poetic response to Kelly Clarkson’s Because of You   I saw it all when you swallowed your words and drank No refreshment from unease...

denial, little old me

YOU You hurt me in a way that no one else ever could You were supposed to wrap me in cotton wool I’d be treasured, not disregarded (...