EvieWhy

if your eyes could record 👀🎥 probably one of the first poems i wrote back at the very beginning of 2021. I was still in a wheelchair at the time. uncertain about the future of my mobility, about the future of the word tbh and reflecting on my life. im a dreamer. always have been. i can sometimes live there too and that can be good at times because i have vision & hope & a reason to wake up when i just wanna stay in bed but its also not good because i find myself wanting more than appreciating. and there is so much to appreciate in the life im currently living… i mean by some miracle IM WALKING again!!! its been 3 years and I dont think thats sunk in quite yet. IM WALKING!!!! 🚶‍♀️

anyway, i return to this poem every few years (i really do wish my eyes could record sometimes so I could watch my life back like a fly on my forehead) so i can remember to live with intention & heart. so i can be someone who would keep her tapes, the ones only her eyes could record🥹

x E

poems i secretly wrote about other people (over the years) part two 🫶🏼 not all poems about others are about anger/sadness/heartbreak, sometimes they’re about love or appreciation too and i love it all. in the end we’re all human. we’re all trying our best. sometimes people hurt people and sometimes people bring so much joy. and other times people are simply mirrors to ourselves. our humanity. so I write about others from time to time. (mostly because it’s hard to face the flesh of another and say this is how I feel but also because poetry is immortal & we are not 😭) ok that’s enough for now!!! xx E

2. about wanting to be understand better
3. about the loves of my life
4. an observation on my fiancés attitude towards life
5. written as part of an anthology I released in 2020 about my journey through love
5. a tribute to friendship (new and old)

time’s melting on every corner of my hungering tongue !👅 I am trying to get over my need to explain myself, to be understood, to be admired!! so I will refrain from explaining my poem. but I hope you get it!!🥹

I made another super prompt today for - one from (to write an ekphrastic poem although I probably didn’t do it right & I chose a different painting) + one from (to ruminate on a specific word or feeling. I chose time & how I feel like I never have and have never had enough of it!! will I ever feel differently?)

anyway, off to get hakka!!
x EVIE

text reads:
time’s melting by the sea shore,
time’s melting on a branch,
time’s melting on a cloth-covered carcass,
time’s melting on ants.

what a time to be alive!
you’ve got time, you’re so young,
but time’s melting on every corner
of my hungering tongue.

x EVIE

in another life I’d be one of the Artemis || astronauts having a nap rn next to the dark side of the moon 🌑 but I guess in this life my mission is to conquer and explore my inner darkness or something.. i guesssssssssss 🥺

anyway, today’s poem for used another prompt from - pick a tarot card and use it to guide the direction (& title) of your poem. I ofc let the cosmos pick my card and got The Hermit. the hermit is about quieting the noise so you can go inside yourself and seek inner truth. frankly I’m a little jealous and sad that I’ll never orbit the glorious moon myself but maybe just maybe the inner journey will be just as worthwhile?? MAYBE?? ✨💫🌟☄️