LRAE Poetry

peppermint has an  absence of sweetness she likes the burn  as it dissolves and   reminds her of  her incompleteness, peppermint candies  are her weakness,   although the sugar gives her nightmares, so lately she’s  been sleepless she likes them because  they  often give them  away for free they’re also the cheapest it could be because  her  name is peppermint,   and her body is  cold to the touch she has a natural  frostbite-like flush she eats so  many  at once  and  to her,  there’s no such  thing as too much they cause cavities  in her  teeth   because of the crunch, but she likes the way the spice  a dds an extra little punch peppermint is forever desperate she tosses back more mints as  she's passing through the exit some say she makes  a lasting impression, but other's think that the  peppermints   are an obsession she doesn't care...

Why does our intuition gives us the sixth sense? Why do we feel drawn to speak in past  tense? Why do we put up walls,  hiding in our own defense? Why does everything  seem so negative that  we’re in constant need  of an energy cleanse? I’ve pondered if our  souls turn into stars, or if we end up as the dirt  used to grow tobacco for cigars, or if we turn into a cedar wood  tree for a musician’s guitars although maybe, we end up as  space dust on the planet Mars What if the shadow walking  beside us is our ghost? What if they lie even if they've  been sworn under the oath? When we’re anxious, is there really a  lump in the back of our throat? When we make mistakes, is that  life’s version of taking a note? - Leah Rae

it’s sensational, like phosphenes in your stomach euphoria, the feeling it gives, oh you’d love it euphoria is a  body shock it’s your mind with  no writer’s block it’s adrenaline,  it’s composure euphoria gives you  butterflies all over, but without the  nerves included, it lets you dance like no  one’s  watching and feel the music it’s like fairy lights  inside your skeleton a boost of happiness,  enhanced serotonin  - Leah Rae

love is concealed beneath  the  skin, hidden in every wrinkle it consumes you like you’re  drowning inside a sinkhole and when they get you vulnerable, they kiss you like they’re listening  and they look at you with  their  eyes so intimately we’re not on the  same page though,  you’re staring down on the front  cover  while I’ve been memorizing the quotes we’re both hungry for something  thrilling without commitment the past has created a black hole in  our  psyches because this lack of fulfillment, and that I can’t heal you by turning  passion's pigment into crimson the true shade of blood is the color of eternity, a r eddened  vermilion - Leah Rae

my hands are  like a glacier, powerful like the  force of nature when they’re close  to heat, they melt then, they’ll become  colder than ice has felt when you’re next to me,  my hands are swollen my palms sweat up  like they’re molten and when I’m too  anxious to speak, my hands will freeze  up and become weak almost like they're trying to  find the calm after a storm, when I was younger,  I felt like there were  needles in my fingers  like prickling thorns and when the doctor  drew  a sample of DNA,  my hands curled  like an archway the pulse in my fingers  throbbed like a bass drum I couldn’t move  any  part of  my body,  not even my thumb and I went back  to  the day  when  I was told that I  had healing hands and if you give your  warmth generously, another soul  will understand because when you  caress a broken  heart,  all the ...

it’s their hands,  what they create it's their canvas, what they paint it’s their voice,  what it sounds like it's their world by their own design it’s their face,  how the bones curve its their eyes,  how they’re colored it’s their love,  it’s their brain it’s their heart,  it’s their pain it’s all written  in the stars, this beauty  that is ours - Leah Rae

we’re preying  on each other playing a game  of tug o war love and religion  go hand and hand won’t let go, might  as well be dragged the predators  we are,  like characters in  a film noir opposites  that  attract the cheetah  and the wolf  walking in  their pack strong on  their own,  but unpredictable  when they’re alone with gripping jaws, sharp edged claws we let ourselves  ruminate and allow our  emotions  to overtake our entire lives, the whole nine - Leah Rae

that girl, the one  in the plaid skirt that girl, she’s  j ust an introvert that girl, the one  with a small waist that girl, sweet as  strawberries she tastes that girl, the one who  wants to go to Japan that girl, go and ask  her to do a handstand that girl, the manic  pixie dream that girl, the one  night fantasy that girl, who writes  poems in  coffee shops  on her  lonesome who thinks  she's  invisible  and  convinced herself she's a no one that girl, the one walking by herself you don't know  how  much  she  wished she could  be someone else that girl, the one that  knows about constellations that girl, wandering about  in her imaginations that girl, the one I  saw at a concert somewhere bruised  up badly and hurt that girl, fear her  when she's mad that girl, comfort  her when she's sad she knows how  heartbreak feels and will get upset,...

moving mountains  and shining lights desert roses and  bitten snakebites hiding in the dark  for over a decade going into real life has made me afraid there’s movement  in the  city  while the  desert stands still it’s like an old  western movie,  there’s time to write  letters with a quill dipping the feather into ink,  the only thing there is to do is think you’re curious  and observant, creating art to trade  with the merchants and all you hear is the sound of a  cello, as it undertones the world away everybody here wants to be different,  but they’re all exactly the same then there’s you,  desert rose authentically you, no one  you’re trying to impose healing by  your presence  water and sand is  what  makes up your essence protection,  prosperity,  and purity I know you don’t like to be  misunderstood for obscurity, but you know how to  carry your energy so k...

I had a dream that I joined the Navy, promised good fortunes  of  stability and safety as I was ascending towards the deck,   I fell overboard into  the  ocean and  broke my wrist  I swam to save  my life, hoping  I make it back to the ship  I tried to grab onto a  rope,  but my hand couldn't grip freezing cold in the water with rain and foggy mist and although I was deathly exhausted, I had to persist, my moral compass is  out there floating adrift the dock that  met with the  boat broke in half memories flashed from  before  I  was sent  overseas to the draft I  awoke without  knowing  what had happened, so I'll treat it as a lesson  never  to take life for granted because the warship always  goes  down with its captain - Leah Rae

my bones are  the  tusks of elephants taken by hunters who have  an absence of  benevolence carved ivory, ripped from a  being  that didn’t deserve to be taken apart innocent and selfless,  left  undisturbed with a cold heart my skeletons are right when  you walk into my room, and if I drink lots of water, flowers  in  my ribcage will start to bloom I keep a couple in my closet  and  hold  them  hostage inside let nature take its course, buried bones become fossilized the fishbones you  find  in your salmon   the claw worn around your neck,  a birds of prey talon the other bones of  various  animals you  find  at the pet store f or the  puppies that teethe,  and bones from the  unused part of meat these bones, connected  from my skull to my feet my bones, this  unfamiliar territory,  this consolidated piece  of flesh around me my skin...

the ghost  that rattles, with sword drawn ready to fight battles, this soul that  wants to live reckless abandon, forget and forgive well-known for  having dirty paws,  being experimental,  finding how to belong frosted fingerprints  left  on the  glass window pane an outcasted angel  from  this  world of mundane they're the fallen, awaiting to be saved - Leah Rae

trying time  after trying time rethinking the betrayals  throughout your life telling stories about  what  is wrong and what is right you’re suffering but you  won’t back down a fight you’re swimming through  and swimming through all the motion in  the ocean,  your hands are numb  and feeling frozen, but you know that  you are chosen and you won’t go  down being broken - Leah Rae

Will you be  my sailor moon? we can pretend  like  we’re in the cartoon and you can be the  Luna to my Artemis, we’ll save the  town  together,  just the  two of us - Leah Rae

it happened quickly and  unexpectedly,  no foresight, out of t he blue stuck on you like  gum that's been stuck to the bottom of a shoe and when you chew on one  piece,  you must have another chewing more and more, eventually it loses its flavor and though there’s not  many left in the pack,  you open your mouth  and let your lips smack add in another,  and another, chewing on the glob  until  the tongue has little space   beginning to blow a bubble,  I puff my cheeks in my face I begin to float up,  but  the bubble  popped and I  came crashing down  from the sky  catch me before I fall,  alas,  I am fated my goodbye as I plummet  into the ground,   I became lost  in a theory, this gum tastes  a  l ot like berry, or perhaps of a sweet cherry I continue to chew in curious thought,  I ran back into the store and  grabbed more packs to be bought m...