THREAD, ENAMEL, ELEGY
— on #teeth and remembering

A poem about first losses, inherited humour and smiles doing unpaid emotional labour.

Grateful to Savi, #thistooisholy for curating spaces where memory and craft get to coexist.

#ThePoetryExchangeTTIH #TeethPrompt #PoetryCommunity #nostàlgia

THE DAY PERSONAL SPACE LEARNED TO WALK

#thistooisholy Savi’s #hair prompt tugged an old thread
I was small again, on an elephant’s back
Ahead, a man with very confident head hair
Sway. Bounce
That hair tapped the seat of my dignity
The elephant stayed innocent
Memory laughed first

#ChildhoodMemory

THE GRAMMAR OF WHAT PERSISTS


Some things refuse disappearance. Memory. Inheritance. Hair.
Written for the January Poetry Exchange, this poem listens to what the body remembers before language intervenes.

#pedspenspoems #thistooisholy #Poetry #HairPrompt #JanuaryPoetryExchange

THE STAIN THEY COULDN’T CLEAN
— joy, misfiled as survival

Joy isn’t light here.
It’s what refuses erasure.

A garnet-cut piece for Voices in Stone—
joy as defiance, residue, forbidden shine.

#stonewitnessed @thistooisholy #voicesinstone #thistooisholy #poetrychallenge #poetryprompts #justatry🙈

PALEOTIDE — the body recollects water before memory

Sometimes memory returns like water —
not to drown, but to remind.
What we survive, we carry.
What we carry, shapes us.

@thistooisholy #VoicesInStone #thistooisholy #poetrychallenge #poetryprompts #novemberprompts #justatry🙈

HANDS OF THE DISCIPLE — the worship was never one-sided

No one belonged to anyone.
They just met in the pause
where want and power
finally spoke the same language.

With inspiration from #thistooisholy #handsofthedisciple #darkpoetry #literarypoetry #poetrycommunity

SMILEFRACTURE — a study in polished ruin

Smiling, even when the paint peels —
not for hope,
but for the brief illusion of endurance.

#writingcommunity @thistooisholy #humorpoetry #wednesdaywhine #thistooisholy #creativewriting #poetryprompt #humorwriter

THE RESONANCE ROOM — when sound forgets to return

In the museum of silence, even bones remember their hymns.
Every echo learns the shape of listening — and stays.

#thistooisholy @thistooisholy
#VoicesInStone #thistooisholy #poetrypromptchallenge #poetryprompts #octoberprompts #justatry🙈

KAIROS — when the body is rewritten by time

Every fragment insists it was once a star
Some debts rattle like seeds in the marrow
Silence drinks deeper than blood
Order is only the name we give to scattered remains

Trick or treat? Choose your ghost ✨

#promptgames #thistooisholy #halloweenpoetry

ANANKE—scripture written in marrow

Even stone remembers fire.
Even marrow hums what the tongue will not confess.
What we call vow is only hunger—
braided, renamed,
made inevitable.

#promptgames #thistooisholy

POMARIA —when hunger rewrote the covenant

She bit dusk’s apple
and what they called forbidden,
she named covenant.
What they marked profane,
she turned into liturgy.
The orchard still remembers the taste of her defiance.

#feralfridayprompt #shebitdusksapple
#feverish_words #thistooisholy

CORONALIS — Crowned the Dawn, not with hymns, but with scars hammered into gold.

#feverish_words #thistooisholy #feralfridayprompt #crownedthedawn #poetrycommunity

ROOTMARK
—when the earth keeps your bite

I left teeth in the roots,
so exile would remember my name.

#feverish_words #feralfridayprompt #ileftteethintheroots #thistooisholy

DEIFICIT
—a theology of taking without return

There is a mouth at the center of every system.
Not to speak—only to swallow.
It calls your labor purpose,
and your grief a delay.

..continued

#feralfridayprompt #feedingthehollowhunger
#feverish_words #thistooisholy