by Grace Tompkins | Feb 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Morning Doves flutter by Seeking Refuge in the trees On a rainy afternoon, in a faded daydream Spring made it’s long awaited arrival quietly, through the night Slipping into the atmosphere leaving in Winter’s Wake, a new light The ache in my chest is fading away...
by Grace Tompkins | Feb 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
I never knew what to call youA lover, or a friendMost nights it felt as ifI was just playing pretendWe were two strangersIntertwined in the darkYou were always just an echoA shadow walking around in a haunted cityYou left meA ghost, moving away from the...
by Grace Tompkins | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
I know you and I were not meant for each other ,A fatal pairing, a poison ever so sweetA death sentence for a stolen kiss, a lasting glanceA careless happenstance We are not starcrossed loversSomething that never came to be,A daydream, a lifeless fantasyA wordless...
by Grace Tompkins | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Is this how it ends? Another love wasted-Put away in the closest, tidy and quietlyTo never live in my heart againTo only exist in these wordsWithin Lines of poetry, to recite and reflect?Each verse an echoing remnantOf what you meant to me Goodbye, my loveWe’ve...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Look across these watersAnd gaze upon meMy reflection, left by itselfThe wreckageFrom the knife sitting on my shelfTorn and tatterned,a seam has come looseUnraveling, followingA loose thread leaving the remains of youthI once was myselfbut I’ve discarded her for...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Pink, cotton candy skiesAnd a childhood left to fade awayThe future, present, yearningThe wind calling out your name This is the endOf everything that could have beenOf a past, lingeringAnd a broken promise stained on my lips What is left, the remains of...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
A dark, lifeless ceilingFacing back to meA reflection, the deep voidOf wanting, clouding all I can see Honey coffee,The sweetness of your lipsDeeply, longinglyI wish you would come to me Emptiness,pulling the strings of my heartThe absence of this...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Oh, to be loved as Orpheus loved EurydiceOne in which he felt could not be placed in Patience’s handsIn defiance of fate, driven by his longingSo hungry for the taste of his lover again The beauty in the tragic storyRests not in reunion;But in such an actOf...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
For 18 years of my lifeI’ve wanted to make a mark I’ve falteredAnd sized myself downScared to leave an impact – A trace of myselfOn someone, on something Too scared to put the brush to the canvasFor being known is a great, terrifying thing...
by Grace Tompkins | Jan 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
When I wrote my last post a year ago today, I didn’t quite expect to not return to my blog for a whole year. I’m sure at the time i had big plans for the blog, for posts and series. Reading through my goals and resolutions I set in that post, there are certaintly a...
