bluewaterlily

The clock doesn’t strike midnight  When she arrives amongst the stillness Of the stars and the snow . When she knocks on the door, Her stepmother stands, stoically unsurprised Cinderella is ...

I love your beautiful and vivid yet concise imagery. Adore these lines "a soft flickering light,/sheltered by my fingers."

she'd swore she'd never go back and yet the carriage rattles carries her to the place she reluctantly called home but homesickness chokes her like ribbons of smoke twined around ...

She carries the future, her ladies-in-waiting tell her as they watch in awe each morning as her belly swells and ripens like a melon in the summer. She finds it ...

Table of Contents 1 she finds it strange 2 before the wolves come 3 grown 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ...

napo2021.jpeg Yep, we're back to fairy tales this year. I feel like I need to add some context to this project. It is a continuation of my NaPo last year, ...

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Erila, your poems are phenomenal. The imagery and the themes are so universal but you breathe life into every topic or issue that you tackle. And I am stunned by ...

Carving Up the Darkness Alice is sure that she will paint the town with her tears. She knows the whispers that ghost her, rumors of her alleged madness, but she ...

Halsey's latest album, Manic, especially "929" and "Ashley" Ariana Grande (just listened to her live concert album, "k bye for now" and it was divine) Lana Del Rey's latest albumn ...

Mea, I am so happy to see a poem inspired by The Good Place. I also love how your poem has inside references to the show like the "everyone carries ...

Being Human To the little mermaid the hardest thing about being human is getting used to breathing. She feels her flimsy lungs recoil and collapse with every tedious breath. The ...

Another stunning poem! And congrats on making it almost halfway through NaPo. I love the structure of your poem, especially how you use fragments in the middle stanza and use ...

Rumplestiltskin and other hungry men CW for incest and child abuse He unspools her hair from its bun, and it makes her think of Rumpelstiltskin about to turn straw into ...

niteowl, I absolutely adore your tenth poem "ghosts." The whole poem is beautiful and evocative. I think my favorite stanza was the second to last one about phantoms. That really ...