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

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 →

Nobody’s Somebody (excerpt)

“Just think about how far we all have come since last year. Isn’t it amazing?” Drea smiled as she sat back in her chair at our banquet table. The other sorority members who were seated with us were either up and dancing or mingling around the banquet hall. Amazing wasn’t the word I was thinking... Continue Reading →

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 →

GOD bless the exes!

Okay so I know this may sound weird but I am really thankful for my past loves.No seriously. (Stop laughing and/or giving me the side eye.)I was tweeting yesterday about understanding your personal love language. Your love language (by my definition) is the way you show love. It can also be the way you best... Continue Reading →

Simply needed to write a few things out

So, I have found the need to write myself out of this depressed state that I am in. Of course you wonder… “Why so depressed? Don’t you realize how blessed you are compared to others?” Blah Blah Blah Yes, I realized that I am an extremely blessed woman. I have a million things to be... 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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