Anni D

I’m a poet and I know it and my feet show it (they’re long fellows)| |Working on my first poetry collection

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Anni D

I’m a poet and I know it and my feet show it (they’re long fellows)| |Working on my first poetry collection

407

Writings

119

Followers

Following

Afraid

Anni D

1 min read

I am afraid of crying in public

I am afraid of thunderstorms

And that I am a bad teacher

I am afraid of my own voice when I yell

I am afraid of the dark

Because in it I can see all my flaws

I am afraid of being stuck

In some suffocating space

Like the crevice of a rock

Or with an unfaithful lover

I am afraid of the way hospitals smell

I am afraid of my own heart

Because it is glass

I am a...

Poetry

Am I So Wrong For Weeping?

Anni D

1 min read

Am I so wrong for weeping

In the times you are away?

I can only love you deeply

Never any other way

In nightmares I have lost you

And when I wake I fear

They have become reality

Because you are not near

I know we’ll be united

Post this agonizing night

But though dark is not eternal

It makes us forget the light

So in moments my strength fails me

I cry out to skies of gray

Am I so wrong for w...

Poetry

Romance

And There I Saw Beauty

Anni D

1 min read

“Who is that there?”

I pause, my eyes locked on the mirror

The face inside of it is new

She is fresh with an unfamiliar warmth

That bleeds from the corners

Of shimmering eyes

Into the blaze of a genuine smile

And there I saw beauty

In each crease and crevice of her skin

There was a gentle power in her hands

And resplendent wisdom

In shoulders

That too often carried boulders

But for once,

Were...

Poetry

Starlight And Her Spark

Anni D

1 min read

In the vastness of the cosmos

Out where moonbeams never shone

I drifted, but a snuffed out star

In dimness, left alone

Without a fire to guide me

I pawed through asteroid dust

Grasping for another star

On whose light I could trust

How quickly other lights had fled

On seeing my estate

No comfort for a blackened star

That miserable ingrate

But there was one who ventured

To step nearer to my ma...

Poetry

Romance

Platonically

Anni D

1 min read

Can I kiss you

Platonically?

I promise, just as friends

It will only take a second

You’ll forget it when it ends

I only want to tell you

In the best way I know how

You make my world seem brighter

And I need you in it now

You’re the piece of me that’s missing

You’re my flashlight in the dark

You turn weeping into laughter

You’re a neverending spark

I can call myself a po...

Poetry

Romance

The Queen Of The Night

Anni D

1 min read

There is a black hole inside of my chest

He cannot see it, perhaps for the best

I am so unworthy of all of his light

Can a sunbeam ever love the Queen of the Night?

I’m damaged beyond what I want him to know

The achings I live with do nothing but grow

He’d vanish at once in the very hour

That the Queen of the Night showed the whole of her power

I am the serpent, disguised as a dove

Bringing not...

Poetry

Duet (Solo)

Anni D

1 min read

I’m singing a duet, solo

Making up your part as I go

I can be a tenor if I try

To picture you behind my soprano

I’m singing a duet, solo

Registering both high and low

As seamless as if you were here

Tickling black and white on the piano

I’m singing a duet, solo

Creating notes no one yet knows

Wishing I had a partner to sing with

So my duet wouldn’t feel so

...

Poetry

Romance

Spark ✨

Anni D

1 min read

Holding my breath til my face turns blue

Afraid that if I let go, you will too

This must be some fictitious work of mine

That landed me with something unbelievably divine

I am a beetle scuttling in the dark

When the room is engulfed by the light of a spark

But though full of joy from the warmth that I feel

I am so overwhelmed, i don’t know if it’s real

I want to believe there could possibly be

...

Poetry

Romance

Constellations

Anni D

1 min read

I like counting the stars on my ceiling

Creating constellations unheard of

Between cresting eagles

And strokes of silver wind,

I’ve connected avenues into

A place where I’d like to live

I gathered you out of stardust

Built you in the workshop of my room

Plastering you in the sky

To fly beside me

And it is glorious, how those two swim

Through a sea of stars on my ceiling

Their hands interlocked...

Poetry

13/23

Anni D

1 min read

It’s fine when you’re thirteen

Writing hearts around his name

Feeling seasick as he walks by

You have to force yourself to breath

When you hear his voice

Cause it makes you want to lay down and die

Pen these long journal entries about him

How you’ll be married when you’re both old

And though you barely ever talk

You’re almost semi-quasi stalking him

Which is fine!

You’re only thirteen years old

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Poetry

Romance