iva by the sea: free verse

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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Thursday, August 2, 2018

$[poem text: there have been some rough spots (eons where the dagger twists a fraction and the red rush of life within me remembers it's channeling around this blade embedded in my chest) (and all of me remembers) (and all i am is pain) other than that, i'm doing well] Originally written 2.18.2018$

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Salute

[ poem text: like rising for the national anthem i stand at the window breakfast paused in hand as my neighbor backs his Camaro out of his garage ] There's a sense of pride and gratitude that one can feel in such moments.

Monday, June 18, 2018

Lost City

[ Poem text: it was a cliff at the edge of the sea except the sea was a desert dry its waves dusty yet a sliver of starlight whispered a secret to her heart and she knew engulfed in the sand submerged in this sea lay a hidden city fed by a well a full and limitless well brimming with the deepest longings of her heart]

Friday, August 11, 2017

until every scar is kissed away

Monday, August 7, 2017

wingless + farewell

wingless [poem text] - it wasn't until her windflower form was tangled in the web of his fairy tale and she could not free herself without tearing her wings -- that she realized her heart was not safe in his arms . . . . [ she had hoped he was kind and sweet and good, but he had made her no promises. ]

farewell poem text: [and so / wingless and torn / she weeps as / she sleeps again / in her chrysalis] . . . . . . because she loved him. and that sort of thing never goes away.

Thursday, August 3, 2017

all she ever wanted

unless he smiled at her on that one audacious night which was scrubbed so quickly from the history books that part of her brain was erased along with it.

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

hemopheliac

Poem intro text: [it was only a tiny dagger so small really / a kiss in comparison to the hundreds which had cut him and which he had mocked] Romans 12:14,17 [originally written 7.21.2017]

Hemopheliac

it was only
a tiny dagger
so small
really

a kiss
in comparison
to the hundreds
which had cut him
and which
he had mocked

and
he had lent it to her
not because he loved her
which he did

but
he couldn't hide anything
from her grasp
her teeth
on every toy

yet beneath his scars
he bled
and had been bleeding
and continued bleeding
and would still yet
continue bleeding

and when she cut him
yet again

she could not see
that now

he allowed himself
to feel

— iva m

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Starry Night

She tried, she really did. But the night was so dark, and the stars so glittering and pretty, that she could not stay away. But the night was also so cold, the stars so distant, that she felt more alone than before. I don't know how she will survive this, when she cannot leave and she also cannot stay.

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Hide and Seek

she hid her soft summer colors from him --- because she could never see his

Not You

today I am focusing
on the scent of fresh broccoli
as the knife slices through
the tender heart of the stems

and not
the words you spoke
which severed my heart
from yours

the grey and sand of backsplash tile
the bright voice of water
as it soothes the florets
with a lullaby

and not you
not you at all

the clean and white of paper towel
tearing from the roll
crumpling in my hands

and not the promise of your heart
torn from my soul

the lukewarm of linoleum
against my cheek

and

hot tears

not you

Saturday, April 22, 2017

The Crystal Sea

The boat lists in the crystal sea, tipping lower into the clear water. Sand on the seafloor shimmers as sunlight kisses it with ripples. A gossamer vine waves in an underwater breeze as a hand streams through the water — gentle, pale, smooth.

Laughter like wind chimes.

She is finally at rest. Finally she breathes freely and deeply.

Finally, she laughs with joy at the beauty of sky and cloud and sand and sea.

She is freed from her chains, and her arms are free from the marks, the indentations of the iron bands which once held her prisoner.

— iva m

[While this is yet to be fulfilled, I know that the Lord has secured her release.]

[originally written August 26, 2016]

Monday, April 17, 2017

Words in the Dark

because all around me
i feel the dark
i feel it clinging
curling
around my bonelike arms

but i whisper
here against my pillow
whisper clenched-fist words
rescue
rescue
rescue
breathing bruises
from a small and purple heart

i breathe
words as thin and false
as cotton candy
trust
trust
trust

make them real to me

you will rescue me
illuminate the night
turn the bands of darkness
into bracelets
glittering on my arms

and as i sleep

i breathe your name