poemmmms

[mswendyparker]

i went to my friends talk today about writing poetry. she called poems snapshots in time, like a poem is just a photograph, an essay is a tv show and a novel is a movie. haha i liked that. and i could feel myself relaxing about it, a snapshot doesn't have to be truth forever, but just how i am feeling in a moment, from the past or now

so i wrote these two in the workshop

my heart still wrenches
and my face floods
even though i know everything i should know.
tired of cliches,
i walk in one,
and your shoes still live in a box

my mouth waters
sometimes
when i think of you
no one knows this,
except me
i want to tell you
but the words carry too much of my heart on their way out
So i keep them in.
and say i love you instead