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Category: Poetry

They Say You Should Write What You Know

Published by Lee Under the Cedar Trees on December 27, 2024

I want to write beyond my own head
I want to write The World Out There

All that comes out if I try
Is a tangled mess of shoelaces
Jumbled together trying to feed me a curb
A knotted mayhem trying everything they can
To break my teeth

I brave The World Out There to find
Snarled miniature tumbleweeds
Fighting to clog my windpipe
Dry and dusty threads trying so damn hard
To choke me to death

How do we describe an absent thing we’ve never fully touched
How do we uncover what will always be a mystery
How do we write what we don’t know
What we can’t know

December 27, 2024

Realization, Burnout

Published by Lee Under the Cedar Trees on December 24, 2024

I was riding high
Fully charged
Shining happy
Until the awakening

Then the reservoir ran low
Now I’m reduced to just
Just reduced…
Reduced to…

Reduced

Anglerfish roam my seas with dead bulbs
Ugly as hell with gaping jaws of crooked teeth
They have no enchantment left
So luring nothing they now go hungry
And the darkest words
Are free to swim as they please

If my guardians starve to death
How can I ever come back to safety

December 22-24, 2024

Returning to the Precious Few

Published by Lee Under the Cedar Trees on December 24, 2024

These precious few
I will serve them however I can
They may not want it
They may not ask for it
But whether they like it or not
I’ll give as I can 

This is what I am!
This is how I’m human.

I withdraw and hide
Or fall silent for a time
As the need takes me
But I return when I can
With no less love than before

May I never lose to spite and bitterness
The side of me that brings me back

December 24, 2024

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