static compartmentalized, hollow face remembering the past through rain get out of bed today find the right words to say taut and torn claustrophobic in a wide open space another day to smile in vain
Poetry comes in all forms, from sonnets to free form, and something I’ve wanted to do to better express myself is create some new forms of poetry for others to use. The Retraux Overview The Retraux is a 7-line stanzaic poetic form developed specifically for trauma literature and recovery-based poetry. Its shape enacts the recursive logic of survival: echo, rupture, and return. The form is...
“The Alchemy of Sunflowers” By: Joseph Brindley they called him broken –as if a fractured mindcouldn’t still conjure sky. they forget how he walked the fieldsnot to escape the noisebut to give it form.his steps wrote hymnsinto the soil,even when no one stayed to read them. he was never spared the pain.it clawed into brushstroke,not hidden,but translated with redemption. he did...