The Rising Phoenix Review posted: " Six of Cups You're knocking at my door and we're six years oldshoes just got taken off and you're already halfwayin a story you wanted to tell me. There's always toomuch more to say, too many more games to playand we run out of day " The Rising Phoenix Review
You're knocking at my door and we're six years old shoes just got taken off and you're already halfway in a story you wanted to tell me. There's always too much more to say, too many more games to play and we run out of day before that story is over.
The sunlight slipped by so smooth through this buttery laughter and I'm not sure why something always melts when I'm with you. The dribble of vanilla soft serve down the side of a cone or minutes or my knees.
You always leave so soon and I always find myself circling every word again reliving them reviewing them. Then you don't come back and I start picking at them editing them wishing I was some other girl with the correct words and I would find a phrase underline it in red and wonder, then I would be certain that that's the reason my living room is now quiet, dotted with dead leaves.
Dusk Butterfly grew up in Hong Kong and Beijing, with parents from Taiwan. She is an educator of writing and uses writing as a tool for healing in her therapeutic practices as well. She has been writing poetry since she was a child and has always found the written word to be her main source of healing. She has contributed a number of poems to literary journals including Mayari Literature, Spillverse, The Speakeasy Project, Moonstone Press, Spittoon Magazine and Sententiae. She is also a spoken word poet, who has competed in the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2023 placing top 50, and in the College Union Poetry Slam Invitationals in 2016 and 2018, placing second and 16th with my team respectively. Her work explores love, nature, beauty, freedom and healing.
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