collector of words
​

​she begins
tearing the
pages

from the spines
of her favorite
books

& frantically
stuffs wads of words
into her mouth,

praying its true
that you become
what you eat

while she sucks
the flavor of ink from
her blackened fingertips.

-can't i just be a paper girl with a paper life?


                                          Amanda Lovelace

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​
​the boy who lived
​

​for the boy who lived.
thank you for inspiring me to be
the girl who survived.
you may have
a lightening bolt
to show for it,
but my body is a
lightening storm.
ϟ

The Princess Saves Herself In This One

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​

​

fairy tales
​

     
​   
     ah, life..
     the thing
     that happens
     to us
     while we're off
     somewhere else
     blowing on
     dandelions
     & wishing
     ourselves into
     the pages of
     our favorite
     fairy tales.

    Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself In This One

​

​

​

the princess saves herself in this one
​

​who would  I have been 
without
the 
inspiration 
behind my
demons?

-probably not a poet


I will 
take the
blood-tipped
thorns
they
stuck
in you
&
from
them
I will
teach you
how to
weave
together
the crown
you
deserve.

-you are stronger than i will ever know


the princess
jumped from
the tower
& she
learned
that she
could fly
all along.

-she never needed those wings


once upon a time,
the princess 
rose from the ashes
her dragon lovers
made of her
&
crowned herself
the
motherfucking queen
of
herself.

-how's that for a happily ever after?

​
AMANDA LOVELACE

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​




​
​hurricane
​

​

the most dangerous
humans are the
women who realize
they don't need
anyone after facing 
the hurricane alone.


gretchen gomez

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​

​
​

​deep
​

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her soul was too deep to explore 
by those who always swam in 
the shallow end.

          

                                                    a.j. lawless

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​




storm
​

​




​and her heart was the best part. It would always calm the storm for those who were afraid of a little rain.


​                                                         r.m. drake

​




​cave
​

​you could climb
into the caves
of a million women
and still
never find
the same
sweet nectar
you found

dripping

in me.


ranu

​
​




a girl, an ocean
​

​you watch her walk away and it hits you,
that she is an entire ocean
and you were wrong, so very wrong,
because you let her go..

thinking she was just a girl.


                                                         Nikita Gill

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​




​imagination
​

​you claim you can please me
better than anyone..
but you forget 
I have a vivid imagination 
and two hands of my own.



                                                     L.E Bowman

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​historic
​​

my body
is a historic city
& I'm the only one
allowed to set
the buildings
ablaze.


-reclaim yourself


amanda lovelace

​



​

the girl on fire
​

​​for the girl on fire,
thank you for inspiring me to
gently set the world alight.
you may have
a gown of flames,
but those same flames
run through my veins.


The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One

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​
​
this months reads

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​

​

stars & poetry
​

​some girls have stars
in their eyes and
poetry in their veins
and these are
the girls
that love the hardest.

n.r. hart

​




​purple
​

​
​If blue
means sad
and red
means passion
than I am 
purple.
bruised..
but not giving up.

-abarefootgypsy

​
​


​
love again
​

​I know
I will fall
in love again
I can taste it
like the rain.

for now
I am content
to walk a while
and think

of other things.

​
-poemandpotato

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​



​
​diamonds
​

​She's been through more hell
than you'll ever know.
But that's what gives her
beauty an edge...
you can't touch a woman 
who can wear pain like
the grandest of diamonds
around her neck.

ALFA 

​

​



fire
​

I need someone who sees
the fire in my eyes
and wants to play with it.


​                                                   I.s.f.

​


​


​burn
​

wild hearts don't break;

​
they burn.



-pieces of longing

​



​

poetry
​

​
​
​​"you are different."

"how so?"

"look at everyone else.
they are merely words,
while you,
you are
poetry."


​
-Timothy Joshua

​
​imagine
​

​she gazes into the
milky sky and imagines
she's far away
..somewhere between
yesterday and the things
that will never be.


                                        -alfa