Hi everyone,
Welcome to 365 Days of Poetry & Honesty <3 It's been while & I just wanted to apologise for missing last week’s newsletter and that this one is so late. Sorry! I’ve been in a dark mood the past couple of weeks, even ended up relapsing with some bad coping mechanisms but I’m hoping hoping hoping that this week I pick myself up & keep on going through the noise.
And that's all I can say for the moment, but before we begin here's a little excerpt from a poem I’m obsessed with by Anne Sexton. It's the last stanza and really what I love is the line “Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself” it's like a breath of fresh forest air and I say it to myself all the time. Fingers crossed you like it & that this coming week is kind to you :)
Monday
let me love you love me leave me alone. i’m calling your desire for me a cancer go away. i’m anxious-avoidant
Tuesday
he bit me first. i can't stop crying
Wednesday
this mind is dreaming // & i am red wine for dinner // velvet
melting into the storm of a bleeding wrist. hold me up
Thursday
a poem where i’m taken over by bloodlust.
Friday
you thrive because i grieve. i think i’m pouring from an empty cup but i don't know how to stop. in the mirror i call us a river.
Saturday
Thinking about the protests in Iran, the murder of Zhina Mahsa Amini by the Morality Police, thinking about women’s rights across the world. Here’s three links to petitions you can sign & more information.
Sunday
A poem by Kaveh Akbar
i like “I'm meant // to be spreading tenderness over the earth like seeds // like worms instead I've been shoveling coal // into burning houses fanning the ash”
& the other by Linda Gregg
i like “The sun had just gone out // and I was walking three miles to get home. // I wanted to die.”
Thank you for reading this week’s newsletter ❤️
With love,
Phoenix