diff --git a/priv/posts/blinding.md b/priv/posts/blinding.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b884841 --- /dev/null +++ b/priv/posts/blinding.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +title: Blinding +week: 25 +date: 2025-06-25 +--- +death is blinding\ +it hurts each time\ +in brand new ways\ +that much I'm finding + +it eats away at worldly trust\ +here at once\ +and not the next\ +in what world is this just? + +no one chooses their mortal end\ +we must go on\ +this fear prevails\ +a lifelong friend + +my nights and days pocked with confusion\ +irrevocable, a life all done\ +reflect, think back\ +dream of illusion ++++ +I feel my descent, caused by an unknown\ +At least I hope, in dread of my suspect\ +A most tragic fall, of what was once grown\ +Allowed to crush others in its neglect + +I can't help but notice the darkened sky\ +I got myself here, and built my own binds\ +So I'm left stuck, to watch the time pass by\ +Praying for dawn, of such contrast it blinds diff --git a/priv/posts/isolation.md b/priv/posts/isolation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..56c3de5 --- /dev/null +++ b/priv/posts/isolation.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +title: Isolation +week: 29 +date: 2025-07-23 +--- +a walk each day, at five or eight\ +through tender lanes between\ +pea green blades, a path well-trodden\ +black cat scales fence + +faces covered, concealed with doubt\ +passers by blur shadows longer\ +their time is biding, stuck inside\ +on lope through hour that's stopped + +a seat by concrete tower\ +cars rush by, to jump\ +the evening breeze betrays us all\ +till tomorrow, by myself ++++ +Realising I've been remiss\ +I feel the wind's change on my skin\ +Now I'm ready to leave from this\ +Yet here I wait in isolation + +I can see my last out alight\ +A shining new path to begin\ +But this knowledge is only blight\ +As here I rot in isolation + +It's time to face the cold hard truth\ +The problem must be from within\ +A sad cherry on squandered youth\ +So here I'll die in isolation diff --git a/priv/posts/navigation.md b/priv/posts/navigation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a26162 --- /dev/null +++ b/priv/posts/navigation.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: Navigation +week: 27 +date: 2025-07-09 +--- +we have these ancient ways within,\ +ocean currents and stars that spin\ +at dizzying heights they guide us far,\ +from mountain's peak to sandy bar + +we navigate our world with hope,\ +without exploring we lose our scope\ +the planet shrinks and boundaries tighten,\ +our fear of other will surely heighten + +go out to your place, make peace,\ +opportunities will never cease\ +new experiences every day,\ +life grows its brilliance along the way ++++ +It's an art of minutiae\ +Reliant on fiducia\ + +My conviction of winds prevail\ +Carried fourth by persistent gale\ +With trust that this compass points true\ +Keeping to headings we pursue + +My belief the stars won't blink out\ +As constellations mark our route\ +With respect to the mappers chart\ +And Information there impart + +Many small leaps of faith contrive\ +To keep my reckoning alive diff --git a/priv/posts/oblivion.md b/priv/posts/oblivion.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df52f63 --- /dev/null +++ b/priv/posts/oblivion.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: Oblivion +week: 26 +date: 2025-07-02 +--- +I read your poems after school one day\ +the feelings and fear never fell away\ +a secret care to keep you near\ +give private love, perpetual cheer + +I can see you're doing better now\ +you share your life and love aloud\ +I am so glad you did not bend\ +my dear and sweet and precious friend ++++ +My wager offered to the deep\ +Summoning beasts of it's abyss\ +Here I patiently wait to reap\ +Escape into oblivion + +Answers go far and few between\ +Stealing away that once held bliss\ +The consequence of man's machine\ +Innocence of oblivion + +To avoid disobedience\ +Now I can only reminisce\ +nevermore to experience\ +My handshake with oblivion diff --git a/priv/posts/the-knife.md b/priv/posts/the-knife.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fdf89c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/priv/posts/the-knife.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: The Knife +week: 28 +date: 2025-07-16 +--- +a tool for many uses\ +a blade that seldom muses\ +the edge dramatic\ +feeling deep, somatic\ +and from you, the blood, it oozes ++++ +It cuts so deep into my flesh\ +A spot left raw by bruise unknown\ +Weakened right the way down to bone\ +Throughout time as though damage fresh + +Something you had meant to be kind\ +But my knee-jerk is to despise\ +So I put up a foolish guise\ +And instinctively stab out blind