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2 poems by Esmalita Vangarden

11/5/2015

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A Toast

I am sick of pouring love
while my cup stays empty, yours runs over
pieces of my souls discarded like ghosts

I become a part of your bones
invisible like a girl
malleable like clay

I’ve drank the wine and the kiss
I’ve lost it all because a girl
cannot be a princess
I love too much

I  am a huntress not a queen
too fierce, too mean, a girl unseen
too large for glass, I break like shards

My soul explodes
I am too much to hold in
a bottle of enchantment
kept in the back and you pick it up
and call it love, I crack and fall for you
I am gold.





Ruination

I don’t really mind
I beg for death
I renounce my crown
my dress

Now you see I am a traitor
to my own body

I try to hide what I already know:
the body part you want is irremovable

I hide it in the ruins
a trick of my mind’s eye
it becomes dirt at men’s feet
that imprison me

A trail for my misery
stomping out what my mother
gave to me - my womanly soul
it sinks beneath the black boot

I am destroyed like a pillar of Alexandria
misused, wrath like dust,
I disintegrate divine
crumbling before your eye.

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Esmalita Vangarden resides in Pennsylvania. Her work has been published in The Social Poet, Lantern Magazine, and Contraposition Magazine.
1 Comment
Matte Blk link
4/3/2022 04:35:38 pm

Heads-up, girl:
Take your first finger and hold
it close to your indelible thumb;
the spaceNbetween is how long
our lives are - then comes eternity:
Seventh-Heaven or Abyss o'Misery
(yes, dear, Purgatory is true as
the Son Shining upon humanity).
○♡○♡○♡○♡○♡○♡○♡○♡○♡○♡○
And who decides which realm?
WEE do! Ourselves! And our eyes!
...according to the deeds WEE have
accomplished in our WEE lifetime!
☆☆☆ nrg2xtc.blogspot.com ☆☆☆
I'm a true, Near Death Experiencer.
---> God Bless You.
---> I'll pray for you.
---> God ain't a religion;
God's a relationship.

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