Creature [POETRY]
Lexi Markham
April 16, 2025
Dear forgotten friend My heart is a foreign creature to me sometimes It has a memory separate from mine Inside the bloody veins of the
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Dear forgotten friend My heart is a foreign creature to me sometimes It has a memory separate from mine Inside the bloody veins of the
Through the lens of a decade, I’ve watched the education system mold and morph before my eyes. / Those two eyes, brown and bold, unchanging
When I was 15 I learned about an all time great American film: the birth of a Nation
In that I was taught the
Sleeping. it looks like you’re sleeping i wonder what you dream of as everyone around you is weeping Silence. the room is silent because
“trace the sky’s scars” I want to write a love poem to my ghost, but I do not like her. my phone case is a
I said goodbye to my family, I said goodbye to my dog, I said goodbye to the home I once was a part of A
For some time, I was ashamed of my own name. The length, the complexity It was all too much to explain. Many would call it
My Escape As I look through the reflective glass I think I think of all the pain it’s caused me I think of how my
Friends, there is a miracle for praise to be! For the Goddess of Justice can finally see! With the balancing scales in her right hand,
Twenty-two degrees; The doctor is certain when he says I think it’s scoliosis Sometimes I sit, I am a bird on a traffic line, completely unbothered
When it snows down here, Everyone is amazed Like it’s something magical and new But Maybe it is. The pure, pristine white flakes Floating Floating
My beauty, my cup of tea, my sweet raw honey, hearing your sweet angelic voice always brings tears to my eyes. You’re truly an angel