Young Writers Society

Richard Siken is my all time favorite poet (I also have a quote from him in my NaPo thread literally every year). I LOVE your title!

@LadySpark I NOTICED WHEN I READ YOUR THREAD TOO, Siken is truly amidst one of my most adored poets too.

He taught me to write, LOVE him. Can’t wait to keep up with this thread this month!

poem #4 is *chef's kiss* ! <3 your word choice and imagery makes me want to melt into sugar syrup - it's absolutely scrumptious to read! Especially love "timber rotted with seawater, mosaics of sun-logged glass the moon had discarded" and "kiss me in sunlit apricity where spring is lemony thyme"! Keep up the incredible poetry! <333

@Euphory, AHHHH thank you!!!

feeling very meh about this one

this poem is about learning to trust and learning to be vulnerable again after trauma or a bad relationship. the difficulty in accepting that to love again, means reopening yourself up to the possibility of getting hurt, horribly, again. coming to acceptance with this potentiality and still go through with this risk. i read somewhere that you can only grow if you are vulnerable, the same way new leaves are soft when they first grow from a branch. if you do not leave yourself vulnerable and open, how will you ever learn and grow?

a second part of the poem is about how we go about fulfilling our worst fears. it's the whole saying of you attract what you fear most, of how Oedipus in attempting to avoid his fate ends up fulfilling it. in the process of running away from what we fear the most, the fear propels us to make choices and decisions that is fuelled by the fear and not by us. it made me think of generational trauma, and abuse. how the only way to break it is by becoming aware of it, gaining knowledge of why it happens, how it's passed on and is re-enacted each generation and with this knowledge comes how to stop it. the amount of work healing takes far outweighs the amount of work to simply carry on something harmful because we've grown accustomed to it.

I have been loving every moment of this thread so far! The way that you combine literal, simple descriptions with abstract and beautiful and incredibly poetic imagery is just - *mwah*. It makes your poems feel so balanced.

in the dark, i let the moon illuminate
the underbelly of
a hidden softness etched into the marrow of my bones.

asldkfjsdfj this is TOO GOOD.

Also I loved being able to read your thought process behind poem 6; it makes me appreciate the poem at an even deeper level. Keep up the fabulous poeting!

@Seirre I've loved reading your poetry thread just as much this napo and has been a huge source of inspiration. <3

a boy and a girl walks into a dream and they shoot each other through the heart. the bullet pierces their chests and clutter onto the bar floor and everyone is mad.there's blood on the walls, blood on their hands, blood in the drinks, blood everywhere. why should the world go on as normal when there is rupture in my heart, if i bleed, the whole world bleeds with me. it's 2am and i'm dreaming in kaleidoscopic colours whilst we try and fuck each other raw, our bodies are capsules of galaxies lightyear apart but to everyone else we are just two bodies making love. i want to break us apart because what use is love when we're both blind to each other's light. a boy and a girl walks into a bar and they shoot each other through the heart, and this is how the story ends.