Poetry – Same Sunsets

Untitled Poetry Submission

January 11, 2020January 5, 2020samesunsets

My mind is like cascading glass. Each shard shatters beautifully, into smaller pieces after every trauma. I piece myself back together, grasping at anything to hold back tears. My own mind cuts deep into my flesh, exposing old wounds that are damned to never heal. Each breath continuing life, each breath continuing pain.
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Untitled Submitted Poetry

January 7, 2020January 5, 2020samesunsets

When the burn in your chest rages, like a fire that you can’t control. Know that you hold the power to crumple a universe. Beware that the universe is not yourself. The burning embers of your heart will fade like the death of a star, nought is left inside but billowing ash. You will emerge back, gasping for oxygen. Ready to burn again. Grasping again for another flame to ignite your soul. This time more prepared for the collapse, but no matter how hard you try, nothing will prepare you for what will come. Over and Over you return to this smoldering ash. No one can save you but yourself, ignite your own soul.
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Quote of the Day 01/06/20

January 6, 2020January 5, 2020samesunsets

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past,
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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If you’re not a fan of English romantic poetry, you may have heard this one from Star Wars the Clone Wars. with the upcoming new season release, we’ll be using some of our favorites from the intros (crediting the original authors).

Nothing Gold Can Stay

June 9, 2019June 9, 2019samesunsets

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

-Robert Frost

Stay Gold Ponyboy

-S.E. Hinton

A close friend once used this quote when talking to me, and ever since I’ve been infatuated with the book and the poem.