Poetry – Page 2 – Jennifer Pickering

I knew you

I knew you, I don’t know how. But I was compelled to you. From somewhere unknown a calling came, and I found myself there. It was not through will or love or lust, but necessity. It was an urge I had to fufill in order to breathe once more. I allowed my thoughts to be…
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I went to you

I went to you. My choice. And I will know it was always that. I do not blame you for you choice. For I know it was always that. In ideal worlds, flowers grow, their bright petals clash against sun. But this world is not ideal, it is not bright, and whilst the flowers grow,…
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Your Heart Was Broke

This is piece below was influenced by the writing prompt “shuffle your playlist and use the first line of the 10th song as your starting line” and therefore the song Without Me by Halsey. I took the first line and then stopped listening as not to influence me further and so the piece below began.…
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This piece is a piece written as a revisit to a writing exercise I did at university and is, in some sense, a response to that very poem (found here). The exercise was to listen to a song piece and use that to drive your work. I chose Ludovico Einaudi’s Save the Artic and so…
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Fears and Life Updates…

What are your fears? I questioned. At first it seemed simple enough, heights, spiders, moths. But then they began to spiral. I had not thought about what I was fearful of, I had hidden behind fears I could control. It wasn’t until my world came crashing down, that I knew what it was to fear.…
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The light does not know what to do with me…

The light does not know what to do with me, It casts its shadow against my skin, It dances through my window, Blinds me. But it does not know what to do with me so it casts me to the side. The darkness knows how to hold me, It embraces me. It tells me “it…
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Fear flashed before your eyes…

I dreamt about you last night, You hid yourself as you undressed. Fear flashed before your eyes, As the darkest night caressed Your skin, so supple and soft, Let the light of three moons dance, I dreamt of you once more, And slumbered in your trance. Fear flashed before your eyes, As though you saw…
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Deep in the lung…

Deep in the lung the burning begun As we claimed the flames did not exist. We choked on fumes as they bellowed and bloomed And chanted “ignorance is bliss”. The creatures all ran from the destruction of man, And looked at us in fear. But we turned a blind eye and let them all die,…
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There was no I.

I lost all contact with I, And no matter what I did, What paths I let myself follow, which lies I let myself swallow, There was no I. Photos would flash up of some stranger I knew. It was not me, Or it was. I’ve forgot. All I know is who I no longer am…
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These words.

Sometimes they’re words and sometimes they’re daggers. The deeper thet cut, the less that it matters That you wasted a day, you wasted a week, You ruined your peace by refusing to sleep. They crept in. They crept into the smallest of cracks on the edges of tongues, and once they’d begun, They won’t be…
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