These are just some lines from some of the most ridiculously wonderful fan messages I have gotten in the past few months and I’ve honestly had almost no time to respond whole-heartedly to all of them—but I’d like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for sending them and for reading my poetry because I do read everything sent to me and it is in lines such as these, that I find the courage and inspiration to write what I write. I really want to spend time this summer exploring all of my followers’ blogs as well and actually taking the time to respond with meaningful messages now that I have the time to put my feelings into each response.



What I love the most about poetry is coming across a poem that uses the best possible combination of words to describe the feeling I’m feeling exactly at that moment, and thinking, “Wow, I’m not alone.” And you can carry that poem in your heart, like a friend. If my poetry has been a friend to someone at any moment ever—that’s an accomplishment. And the fact that so many people are telling me that they relate to my poems—I feel so much less alone myself. Thank you.

The Way Light Moves

Move the way light moves
when you look up and it moves
between the leaves
like sheets of glitter and green.

But light never touches everything
the way darkness does—

somewhere—

the balls of your feet—
the shadow on the small of your back
—light doesn’t touch.

Be the one
to make the darkness beautiful—
touch the places light doesn’t touch—
move the way it moves,
when you move,
the way those shadows are lit
by the movement of light.

If you keep moving—
what is in shadow now,
will shine in light.

Snow Globe

Some people are going to treat you like a snow globe
and keep you on a shelf
and take you down only to shake you up
and watch what falls.

So break your glass
and let yourself pour out
and choose not to be so fragile.

Tip over the aquarium they keep you in
and seep into the ground
and grow flowers.

Evaporate into the clouds—
that high—
you’ll see more than a plastic house
where the snow is just paint
and the white-coated trees don’t grow or breathe—

let yourself fall in drops
and know you’ll be lifted up again.

One Size Fits Most

We stood shielded by trumpet vines
with orange blossoms
facing the sunset behind the pine trees
of my childhood home—
and no scenery could be more romantic.

But you pull me in
and I pull away
and think of him

and realize I only know my love
by your love.

And he knows his lack of love
by my love.

So I draw on yours for now
and he draws on mine
and we are a chain of those
loved and
unloved.

A vine of flowers and pulled petals:
he loves me,
he loves me not.

We are not shoes with a perfect match—
we are not made in pairs
We are not looking for our other halves.

We wear each other like bracelets—
one size fits most

and carry each other in the links;
a little tighter doesn’t always cut circulation,
a little looser doesn’t always slip off.

Like the Sun Likes the Earth- What was your inspiration for this piece?

Vaguely myself and a guy. Le sigh. Typical (:

Just going through my latest comments and loving you all (:

Your beautiful<3

Don’t usually post these—but I’ve been feeling pretty down today and this made me smile. So, really, thank you anon.

What is your dream?

live in the city, write a book, travel the world (:

Just wanted to say, I LOVE your poem 'I will be okay'-its so beautiful and expressive! Thank you for your poetry :) I write some too, could you give me any tips on how to make it relatable to all and personal at the same time? If you get me :)

I think I find that if I usually write about something I’m feeling or experiencing—even if I include the personal details down to, I don’t know, the soda brand I’m drinking at the moment ahaha—it’s still universal. That’s the funny thing about humans—we pretty much relate to each other very easily. We all go through the same things. 

Like the Sun Loves the Earth

I used to be okay with loving like the moon
loves the earth
238,900 miles away
around and around. 

And then I felt the thousands of telescopes on me
and I thought I needed to be held all the time,

but when I crashed into someone’s arms
I’ve always left craters and rubble.
I never knew my own size—my own weight.
I never knew the impact I left.

I was a meteor but I wasn’t beautiful—
I carried a tail of sparks and destruction
like tin cans on strings hung from my back bumper
without ever looking back
and I always left the wedding leaving him standing alone.

All the stargazers left me narcissistic
and I thought I made my own light—
but I was just rock borrowing sunlight.

Now I want to love like the sun loves the earth
and lend my warmth and light and ask for nothing back again.

I’m okay with feeling the fireflies flitter inside my belly
knowing you feel nothing at all.
I want to feel the heat in my cheeks
even if yours are cool.

I don’t want to revolve around you though.
I can bear this one-sided love of a planet
but I’ll stand still

—no more chasing.

Maybe to shine like the sun you need to be humbled—
and rejected by earth.
All the eyes can admire the moon
that borrows the silent shimmer of the sun—
but no eyes turn to stare down the actual star

—direct sunlight scars.