GavinPay

Member since January 21, 2016

Member for 10 years, 4 months

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Kitchen Table

Posted Jan 30, 2016 · 7 lines · 1 critiques

Another sleepless night spent at the kitchen table,
waiting for morning to come so that I am able to breathe again.
It's flat, like my chest, as I hold my breathing to rest
while the suppressed heart beneath my lungs is trying its best
to repent.

I have failed you, my heart cries.
I failed you, too, I realize.

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September 2016
24 Sat

Received a critique
on Apoptosis, But More Explodey from @Esker
"why I used to have a notepad or write on napkins or draw ideas..the creative fires would get going..sing at work while I did things about the house.. the quiet ones would shuss me knocking me down off that happy high..t…"
24 Sat

Received a critique
on Kitchen Table from @Esker
"I turn to a higher power when I am most flattened which happens often And I sit and hold the ship the table with maps and knowledge the safe meal place where company sits.. Hanging on till daylight and hope returns a go…"
January 2016
30 Sat

Posted a poem
Kitchen Table
"Another sleepless night spent at the kitchen table,"
Open thread 7 lines
30 Sat

Received a critique
on Dimes from @alidzain
"Just checking out other poets' works. Love the rhyming pattern. If words are mere words, without feeling, just facts or lies that are spoken than beauty is what they lack. Words can shape the mind, start a revolution or…"
27 Wed

Posted a poem
Apoptosis, But More Explodey
"I’d like to blow minds"
Open thread 10 lines
25 Mon

Posted a poem
Dimes
"His words were from dime stores,"
Open thread 12 lines
22 Fri

First critique offered
on "If only" by @drewdionp
21 Thu

First publication
Trees
21 Thu

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 1 days later.
15 Fri

Highest posting month
January 2016 — 5 poems