when my faith runs dry
like ink, like sand
I lay my head on your chest
and your heartbeat retells the story
again and again and again
#poetry #KYpoet #love
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when all I had was a pen
and everything looked like a page
you held out your hand and let me
write love on your arm
the pressed black ink
now pulses under your skin
your veins filled with
words I could not speak
#poetry #KYpoet #love
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the yard feels larger now without you
wildflowers have laid down in the grass,
branches hang heavier with silence
I’ve put the feeders away
with each departure
wings and words fold into the air
I stand in the ache you left
slowly learning to let go
without calling back
#poetry #KYPoet #grief
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when the world erupts
and ash-black skies spew flame and fury
remember, your skin
was never meant to swallow it whole
hold your pain with open hands
and fill your pockets
with the promise of dawn
#poetry #KYpoet
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Which news channel does your father watch?
Not what kind of books does he read
Not who is his favorite poet
Not who or what inspires him
Not whether he prefers Monet or O’Keeffe
Not Rock n roll or Jazz or Classical top 10s
Not his thoughts on existentialism
Not his wildflower garden
#poetry #KYpoet
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don’t talk to me about expectations
just tell me how deep the water is before I dive in
is this love going to break me in half
or plunge me
into the most beautiful unknown
#poetry #KYpoet
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being wanted as I am
unravels the north wind:
first cracks, then rivers,
then marigolds again
from puddles
I hoped were frozen forever.
freezing and thawing
never leaving winter
never finding spring
#poetry #KYpoet
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winter arrives too soon,
and glacial air fills my lungs
I start the car
and drive away
shaking
too cold to speak,
too cold to shape sound into a plea.
#poetry #KYpoet
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I’ve never been enough—
your uncharted mind,
your body, your wild spirit
keep me dismantling myself,
chipping at the ice,
stacking blocks
carving a figure from frost,
praying it would breathe,
and resemble someone
you could hold
even if for a fleeting moment
#poetry #KYpoet
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I freeze
tongue-tied,
like a boy rehearsing your name
until sound collapses into breath,
throat filled with snow,
a silence only the winter knows.
#poetry #KYpoet #winter
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there is no map, no X, no north star
only the cracked compass in his chest
he climbs back in the window
folds into the dream
spinning wild and restless until sleep
night rewrites the script
where nothing here
ever happened
#poetry #KYpoet
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outside, stars drip like wax
Orion’s belt dissolves into a screen
playing home movies
he never consented to
time somersaults
the boy vanishes like the moon
returns
vanishes again
#poetry #kypoet
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the house has eyes—watching
every hallway leads back
to the room with the red wallpaper
silence runs like an absent father
when men with no name
leave their toothbrushes
next to mother’s
next to mine
and punch holes into wafer-thin walls
#Poetry #KYpoet
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the boy dreams of flowers
growing from the mouths of broken toys
into the hands of his teddy
a garden blooms in the ceiling crack
each petal a memory falling
through the hole in the bathroom floor
he cannot name the faces
without bleeding from his own
#poetry #KYpoet #trauma
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the boy wears shoes to bed
the wanting lies beside him,
its face a blur of washed out blue
and thread bare sheets
it whispers
"let it go– or let it sink."
he unlocks the window
#poetry #KYpoet
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the sunlight dreams of skin
but his is made of paper—
folded, crumpled, singed
touch becomes smoke
becomes flame
becomes ash
words turn into birds
turn into lullabies hummed backward
they fly and hide
behind locked doors
#poetry #KentuckyPoet #KYPoet
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wooden throne for
counterfeit king
grandfather calls on them one by one
smoldering ash from stale cigarettes and burned down legacies
sunday dresses
serpent hands
sweetheart, it’s so good to see you again.”
the secret is out now, motherfucker
#poetry #kypoet #Kentucky #blueskywriters
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on the rim of the world
purple, pink, azure
green Kentucky hills
reach to its hem
we held hands all the way home
you licked your pink lips
and I swear to god
I’ve never wanted anything more
#poetry #Kentucky #poet #blueskywriters
#KYpoet #love
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#poet #KYpoet #poemoftheday #poetry #mentalhealth #dance
Cradle the Conflict
extracting all war from my mind
cradling the #conflict
until the fight in me is gone
when #words no longer shoot but spin
we’ll #dance to melodies of #mercy
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#kypoet #poetry #love #moon #light #marriage
if I had been alone tonight
I would have missed the moon
the smallest sliver of light
like a single thread
scooped out in the middle
like a love that squeezes
a hand and says
pull over
look up
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#kypoet #poetry #contemporarypoetry #haiku #confessional #confessionalpoetry #poemoftheday
I wrote search party
poetry for two damn years
No one came looking
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#kypoet #poetry #contemporarypoetry #lyricalpoetry #confessional #confessionalpoetry #trees #forest #light #grief #depression #poemoftheday
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#kypoet #poetry #contemporarypoetry #lyricalpoetry #confessional #confessionalpoetry #school #bullies #murder #poemoftheday
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#kypoet #poetry #contemporarypoetry #lyricalpoetry #confessional #confessionalpoetry #beer #grandpa #nostalgia #poemoftheday
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#poetsandwriters #KYpoet #poetry #Kentucky #1965 #poemoftheday #poems #poet #birds #marriage #love #school #the60’s #cows
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#poetsandwriters #KYpoet #poetrymonth #poetry #Kentucky #IAmEnough #poemoftheday #poems #poet #birds #marriage #love #backyardbirds #grosbeaks
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