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beccalicious94

  • Knowledge villanelle (with brief intro.)

    A poem about trusting yourself and your instincts, because it's all inside of you.

    2 min read
  • Handfuls of sand

    A wistful look at the things in life that slip away from us.

    2 min read
  • When Doing Nothing is Doing Everything

    A love poem about the sweet little moments of doing nothing together

    1 min read
  • Limbo

    A prose piece describing the inner-thoughts of someone self-conscious about their failing relationship.

    1 min read
  • My Moon, My Man

    A love poem using an extended metaphor of the moon to describe a changeable/unreliable man in a relationship.

    2 min read
  • Flesh wounds or the girl who wouldn't die

    This is the story of a girl who has overcome abuse but finds that it keeps creeping back up on her psychologically.

    2 min read
  • Rachel's Wedding

    Borrowing a biblical allusion for a modern story about two sisters.

    1 min read
  • Bad Begets Bad

    Heartbroken girl writes poem to ex-lover filled with mixed emotions.

    2 min read
  • Dear Queer Girl in the Closet

    A prose poem about two women in love, from inside and outside the closet.

    2 min read
  • Grape Expectations

    What if I were a grape rolling around the NYC subway?

    1 min read
  • Ghazal for Her

    A poem about a relationship between two people as it changes over time

    1 min read


To be a master of metaphor is the greatest thing by far. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others, and it is also a sign of genius.
— Aristotle, Poetics