Down the snowy path we walk, your arms around me. Your heart keeps me warm.
Sometimes
He said he felt like I didn’t love him, Like he was just my friend A friend with the alarm code to my heart & the key to my soul… If only he’d turn it Saw our future through a telescope Growing together, Taking each day as it came Me, ready to abandon the script that had become... Continue Reading →
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Words
slicing into me smooth & clean like paper or a ninja’s blade takes a moment to sting rarely bleeds the pain has an echo through the canyons of my soul aftershocks through my mind days, weeks, months later like they just cut through my ear canal your words… Turtleberry 2011
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A Perfect Date
high off life or cotton candy or funnel cake with strawberries hair red bleached & baked by chlorine’s date with the sun jean shorts still heavy from rapids promising a shower or a soak knees wobbly after using a rollercoaster to air dry teddy bear bigger than you cause you’ve looked 12 since you were... Continue Reading →
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Love & Music
would I love music more than my boyfriend? yes yes, I would should he ever make me choose between him and the masterpiece that is the X&Y cd I would chuck the deuces plug my head phones into my iPod and walk away while Coldplay attempts to fix me if my love ever decided to... Continue Reading →
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Breaking up with the scene (free-write)
I want to break up with the poetry scene It has been one of those relationships that looks cool at first Everyone talking about how great you look together How well you fit together And that lasts long enough for you to get high from it Floating from venue to venue on it Then it... Continue Reading →
See this is why…
See this is why fucks cannot be given You give one and they want them all They want them how they want them When they want them Heaven forbid the turtle move too slowly for them All fucks should be given immediately This is why fucks cannot be given Because then when you try to... Continue Reading →
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Turtleberry’s Belief System
I believe in dragons and fairies. I believe in unicorns and demons. I believe in omens and signs. I believe that what you want is most often exactly what you need because sometimes what you need is to know that everything that you want isn’t good for you. I believe in the X-men and Batman.... Continue Reading →
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How To Love Me
Love me like comfort food Gravy on your mashed potatoes Shrimp with your grits Chicken in your soup Leftover spaghetti and warm garlic bread Love me like a crack addiction 24 hours without me leaves you feenin for your next hit Like potato chips after smoking a blunt or two Like when someone lightly... Continue Reading →
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Yes, you are right
you are right i am just like every other girl you've met before i have ulterior motives i am out for myself only worried about pleasure focused on only your shine simply wanting to tan in it trying to take what i can get and move on trying to spend all your money yes you are right... Continue Reading →
Inside the Shell 