Baby, we are like wine--I'll show you how to save it. I'll show you blood worth bottling.
he/she/they
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
Eeeeee I'm so excited!! I loved this NaPo theme, so I'm happy to revisit it, and I've got some new ideas and inspirations because they released the first song for the Lost Boys musical! I'm ecstatic about it. The title is a reference to the song, and I'm pulling in a lot of themes and references from Blood Worth Bottling, which was my NaPoMo theme this year. I'm hoping it'll still be enjoyable even if someone hasn't read all of those though? Hehe, anyways, what better Halloween thing to play with than vampires, am I right?!
We fell asleep with the tv on, like sleepovers with cousins at grandparents’ houses. Reruns are playing, and static fills the air, but there’s a new song ringing out, bared teeth pressed aga- inst a microphone, and the ‘ah’s send my heart racing, but I can’t let it show, no, don’t want to wake the baby (come on, baby, remember me? It was only a lifetime ago we walked this road, baby, only a lifetime ago), and
do you remember how I told you we could bottle this up if we tried? Save this feeling and hide it, just for us, only us, and do you remember all the queer people dying, sacrifices, fangs and violence, and the music is starting up, baby, I can hear the drums violently shaking this rocky home of ours, feel myself getting scthhhh taken over, skin cold, growing older, and I’m just starting to get sober from this addicting feeling of something taking over my being, hyperfixations and internal bleeding to external feeding, consuming and heart beating, and
the song is playing louder now. I can feel it in the floor, thrumming, along with the sound of their voices, humming, and do you remember how I told you that we were worth saving?
It was for moments like these, baby, for moments of celebrating, or falling apart, or behaving wreck- lessly, and the world is ending all around us, so if we have blood, why should we waste it? Drink the good stuff now, baby, there’s no need to save it, and as the streets outside our vampire house flood with our kind screaming, “no more kings,” let’s make the best of the last of our lives, let’s feel alive, let’s start uncorking.
he/she/they
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
We're back with a PANTOUM this time!! Ugh I am SUCH a sucker for pantoums, no pun intended. XD
Text Version: Spoiler
I’m drowning in my own blood, looking for your shadow, like you haven’t fled miles by now, but I know I’ll see you around, and you,
Looking for your shadow, like something tangible, real deep. “I know I’ll see you around”, and you slice away at me. With brutal bluntness,
something tangible, real deep red like blood, not fake, not cheap. Slice away at me with brutal bluntness, saying the truth will set me free.
Red like blood, not fake, not cheap, dripping down my chin, my neck. Saying the truth will set me free doesn’t mean it isn’t a lie, baby.
Dripping down my chin, my neck— pieces of you—swearing on your life doesn’t mean it isn’t a lie, baby, you’re still draining me dry and somehow
Pieces of you. Swearing on your life you haven’t fled miles by now, but you’re still draining me dry and somehow I’m drowning in my own blood.
he/she/they
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
This one is definitely raw and vulnerable and kinda hurt to write. Like, ouch. Hello? I'm a little bit in shock from it actually lol so idk how good it is in reality or if it only twists the knife for me bc I'm actively living it.
he/she/they
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
I love this collection so much! That pantoum is so nice; I love how you played with changing up words to be italicized or adjusted punctuation so the line could be reused but with a slightly different meaning. And the vulnerability and truth to the emotions in New Blood is so powerful. It feels like experiencing a meaningful slice of someone else's life through a single poem (a slice of your own life, I assume), which I always love to see in someone's writing.
spot~pebble~peb~pebb~ in any order they/them
perhaps i can make something of this unreality... ~~~~~~
Thank you so much, @spottedpebble!! I'm so glad you've enjoyed what I've done so far, I'm having a lot of fun with it :]
he/she/they
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
I don't know my thoughts on this one honestly. I don't like it but that's because I went in with basically no concept. Maybe I'll like it better in the morning lol.
he/she/they
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
Didn't have time to do this one last night, so I did it and the next one tonight instead. :] I don't love how on the nose the title is, but idk. Something I could change later if I want.
he/she/they
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
Here's the second one I wrote tonight :] I know I'm posting them like a minute apart but that's because I wanted to finish both first XDD I can't tell if I hate this one or if I just need to go to sleep but EHHHHH we'll see in the morning.
he/she/they
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
Obsessed with Energy Vampire. I love how if it wasn't part of this collection or didn't have that title, I wouldn't necessarily catch the vampire references. The vampire element is a huge aspect of the poem but it's done tastefully and subtly.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
@Wolfi thank you so much! : D I can't believe I completely missed it as a concept in April but lucky me, because it meant I got to do it now XDD
he/she/they
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
Wow. It's weird that this has already come to an end. >.> Not quite the usual neat wrap-up I generally do at the end of a NaPo thing, but that's okay, I think. Or at least, I'm trying to convince myself of that. XD It's been a hard day as the poem discusses LOL so *shrug* I did what I could.
he/she/they
winter can usually be found wherever Leya is = another fun fact ~Leya Winter you just have a whole cinematic universe in your head ~Wist winter is the only person who would survive the machine uprising ~Europa
