Samantha Writes

"Poets are alchemists of nothingness"
Love that!

“…our job is, in a way, to refuse to do what others find useful, in order to leave a space for other things to happen.” - Matthew Zapruder (Why Poetry)
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Pain's Gravity"

Don't talk to me
About picking battles,
I am balancing
Daily.

My heartstrings taut
With the pull of each hurt
Tugging at me.

Woman on a
Goddamn wire,
I have to give in
Occasionally.

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#gravity #poet #prose #poemaday #givein

Tangled up and drunk on sleeping in.
You say it's like a drug,
the morning light
dancing on my skin.

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Can't you see it?
Beauty seeps into life
at the seams.
Rip at them.
Rend them open.

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Ode to my cat (who is now 10)

Frisco:
Knower of shadows,
Born for the night.
Scratcher of itches,
A witch's delight.
Thoughtful companion,
Eyes bursting of spring.
I'll be forever grateful,
that you've shared this life with me.

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His voice rises and I can feel
My heart turn into a rabbit.
No sudden moves.

His fist hits the table and my heart jump jump jumps
into far off tall grasses.

Stay still, little bunny.
You can become invisible
until the fox moves on.

#poem #bunny #poetry #rabbitheart

There's this buzzing in my brain,
but I'm finding different ways
to hold myself,
still.
.
.
.
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If I can be your clothes
I'll hang off all your bones
Every hour
Every day

- "Your Bones" by Mura Masa

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#poetryinmotion

My anxiety is a bird on my shoulder.
The shadow of a bird, really.
Becuase it can't sit still.
Its agitation blurs the very lines that try to define it.
A black cloud.
A pencil smudged across the paper.

I never look at it directly.
But maybe I should.

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The last hug
you will get from someone you love
comes without warning.
It's a hug goodbye before
the trip that takes their life.
Or a casual embrace
some weeks before
your father's arms fall prey
to ALS.
What a gift it would be to know ahead of time.
You could squeeze that much harder.
#poem

Maybe if I picture it
over and over and
over again,
It will come true.
Bending reality to my will.
What is reality anyway?
But a story we tell ourselves
over and over and
over again.

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All I want from you is a letter,
and to be your distant lover.

That is all that I can offer
at this time.

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I was real. I was there.
We had burned ourselves through at the center.
Our eyes slid by each other,
Lived in limbo
Up, down, up and down again.
No one deviates from our rotaing
Piece of planet.
Only I hear the actual crumbling
Down of real life.

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Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

I used to know my bones
I could suck out the marrow to produce poems
and it would feel like healing

Now i've mastered the art of distractions
I maroon myself in mountain cabins
And still find ways to ignore

My bleeding heart

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Screaming into
the void
over and
over and
over again.

Nothing ever changes.

It's easy to forget
The person I was
or am
or will be.

I get lost in the details
seperating you from me.

Unable to keep track of my own cells
as they change.

My god, this life is so strange.

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#parenthood #photography #family #hands

You click the headlamp off
and I stop midsentence
as the stars open up
around us.
We breathe deep.
Two warm bodies
in a lonely sea of grass.

I wish we could always be that close.

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The wind slips beneath the orchard’s skin,
and all at once, the apples shudder-
a red so tender it spills itself,
aching toward the blade of a tongue.

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I don’t think it’s fair
that you nestled in and forgot to try.
I don’t think its fair
that you never let me read a single thing you write.
I don’t think it’s fair
that you let me give you so much of myself only to tuck me away in some drawer in the dark,
and I always let you shine.
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But we settle on cardboard,
because what's the point of spending $1000 dollars just to watch good wood burn?

#poetry #poem #healing #grief #coffinshopping

We thumb a catalog of coffins,
A memorial starts in the next room.
Mom wants cedar.
"Celebrate good times" comes bouncing
through the gloom.
Someone else suggest cardboard.
"We gonna celebrate" says the wall.
"He deserves better" says my mom.

The pictures of you
I keep around my house
Are growing sharper every day

They cut me in a way
that nothing else can ever do.

Memories so sweet,
And growing further away
With every moon.

What a double edged sword it is
To remember you.

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Isolation,
and a cabin
in the snow.

I havent spoken aloud in days.

Hush,
say the flakes
as they fall.

So I do.

I wait
until the sky tells
me something new.

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A friend of a friend told you of my loss.
You never reached out,
But you're tuning in.
I can see who views my stories, you know.

Just itching to see how it feels?
Or are you here to watch the spectacle unfold?

The circus like scramble of me
trying not to fall into black holes.

#poetry #loss

The first time
I went swimming
after the drowning,

I floated face down
for as long as I could.

I wanted to feel
what you felt,
at the very end.

The kids in the pool laughed at me
and taught me how to float
with my face and heart open
to the sky.

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#writing #photos

Dark silhouettes welcomed us home.
We leaned on each other like the mountains on the sky.
You became my roadmap,
And I the compass that keeps you pointed home.
At every mile we found new reasons to stay alive.

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A chemical collision in my brain
words dripping out my ears.
On the bathroom floor and I'm insane
I can feel me disappear.

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#poetry
#writer