Tag: nanowrimo

• Fractals / Empaths

  A ripe gripe smacked in tacky spit through thin lips, a wet grape pressed tight between old mauve stained fingertips, inflection a sharp vice, clenched teeth behind my eye. Tugging the cardinal tether, the demur within the protest has spiderwebbed, shattered feathers. Poignant, myopic, idle, distorted. Complaints so shallow, amplified as if of great importance.…

  Nic Jean

  April 13, 2015

  Poetry

  #amwriting, april, complaining, complaints, creative writing, emotion, empath, existential, feeling, fractals, head ache, headaches, migraine, nanowrimo, national poetry month, paterns, poem, poetry, stress, writing

• Atlas

  Atlas, whose lungs for centuries have bent against a stone railroad of ribs now wheezes as aerosol burns his eyes, and pesticides burn those kidney-bean bent breathings. Callused heels crush stars to dust under the slipping weight that clouds up and clogs his nose; a sneeze could cast hurricanes upon us, as the balance of…

  Nic Jean

  April 8, 2015

  Poetry

  #amwriting, atlas, body, creative writing, earth, mythology, nanowrimo, national poetry month, poem, poetry, titans, writing

• #WhyIWrite

  Some mornings I wake up writing. Through my window, the early sun is shining, my eyes still blinded I find myself rhyming syllables with consonants that complement and comprehend the bigger picture of the scripture prominent in the dominant society. I see the problems with humanity…
The insanity of extreme mindsets from every heavenly sect set…

  Nic Jean

  April 1, 2015

  Performance / “Spoken Word”, Poetry

  #amwriting, #wordsonwed, camp nannowrimo, creative writing, humanity, nanowrimo, national poetry month, poem, poetry, poetry blog, political, politics, slam, spoken word, words, world, writer, writing