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Di Gioia
Member since April 11, 2023
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Flower
The only love I had known was like a bee to a cactus flower
So just as a bee, I dug my stinger in as far as it could go
trying desperately to attach
in return
I got ripped apart
I turned into a wasp
I can finally sting
without suffering greater
but little did I know
wasps
were a matriarch
Mothers
the backbone of society
yet some of those women
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turn comfort
to anxiety
Mothers are what keep us together
although not the ones who control the weather
and choose to shower you in cactus flowers
and watch as it happens
Never
the ones that take all you've earned
from needles down your back for hours
Those women do not deserve that title
A title is something you earn
so it belongs
to the women who honor the metamorphosis of nature
as they help you bloom, rather than bleed.
That bee that I was
with his first flower
anxious for love
will forever be gone
Although through years of reincarnation
as every flower I attempt to take back wilts
and depraves me of pollen
I gave up
I have become
the flower
I have died
relived
died
and decomposed into the flower
as we became one
So as I repeat the cycle
of death
and life
I hope to one day become a weed
repulsive
and unrecognizable.
© Now, Liliana Stephens love • personal • mothers • sad • betrayal • sexual-assault
Di Gioia’s timeline
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11 ThuAnniversary
One year of membership
- April 2023
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13 ThuReceived a critique
on Could have, would have, should have from @Geezer
"welcome! I think that you will know when you get it right; sometimes I work something over a couple of days, before I feel it's right, sometimes, it just flows from beneath my four finger typing and in a hour or so... A…" -
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12 WedReceived a critique
on Could have, would have, should have from @RoseBlack
"I have an affliction for the macabre and enjoyed the dark feel to this poem. It has a little bit of a Lewis Carroll feel to it. I could definitely feel the story piece of it. Well done!" -
11 TueReceived a critique
on Could have, would have, should have from @Geezer
"coming from here. Trying to use the title of the poem for the basis of the work. You say that you are not used to rhyming and ask for help. I think you are brave to make a try at the folly of it. Rhyming is not easy wor…" -
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About me
There isn't much about me as of yet, or at least nothing worth sharing outside of my poetry. :)
Location: PA
Favorite Poets
Amanda Lovelace
Mela Blust
and Pablo Neruda!
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