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  My Mother Once Told Me

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  I have not been lucky since August. August, September, October, November… until my mother told me I was beautiful. Beautiful. Then she smiled up at me and wiped the tears from my cheek and said “love you.” From her chapped lips in her hospital bed and after 5 long months of brainless b...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Holding the Pen

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  You’re absolutely beautiful and I’m absolutely falling absolutely hard for no one but you— and I feel blind sometimes because I can’t find you when I need you most, but you’re always there always smiling always with open arms always open to imagining the unimaginable with ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The House That Taught Me How To Live

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  I feel my body sink into the cushion Of the seat that holds me tight, And it’s comforting The way the pillowy simplicity Fills every dent and curve like I am some delicate object Threatening to throw myself On the concrete And break myself into a million pieces. You tell me to be happy...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Okay.

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  I know you said it was okay. Okay…okay…until suddenly All you see is sleep in the corners of your eyes And you can’t wake up. You can’t wake up from the dreams. You can’t wake up from any of it. “Sleep silently, sweetheart,” you mumble. But even sleeping silently says to Scream...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Cultural Differences in Relationships

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  As said by John Dunn in a 2002 interview, “Relationships should be mutual. Religious and extreme cultural differences lead to an unequally yolked relationship.” (Brookside, Johnathan) This means that when there is a very large difference between the two people in one relationship, the relationsh...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Way You Are

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  Your hair falls down like a parade of angels/ singing a symphony/ and I hold my heart in my palm as I try to match the beating rhythm of yours/ and it's an illusion/ A house of mirrors/ a long/ aching well that I’m falling deep into/ and landing without a splash/ Your eyes illuminate the skie...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Chapped Lips

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  Chapped lips-- from kissing imaginary ghosts that live under the covers do not yet surround me at 3 am Clocks-- outlining the time wasted being wasted washed up and forgotten about on the shores of forbidden times Tears-- and now they threaten to fall but don’t, because I am n...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  My Mother Once Told Me

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  My mother once told me I was beautiful. Except, in that one single word. Beautiful. Then she smiled up at me and wiped the tears from my cheek and said “love you.” From her chapped lips in her hospital bed and after 5 long months of brainless blatancy, She smiled. She smiled at me with t...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  They Say I'm A Dreamer

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  I realize I’ve slowly let these scars take control. And I know you told me you’d always be there And you weren’t, and I know you said you’d always care for me On a level not quite comparable to The way the ocean so eloquently breathes, Evenly with a heartbeat, Flush with the rhythm ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  L'esprit de L'escalier

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  the frigid air reminds me of last winter i crashed my car into your broken heart and wrote about the person you were everything is different now. you changed, and so did i my atoms no longer look for a home in your molecules and i dragged your love notes and threw them in the snow b...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  dreams of beauty in the breakdown~

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  Your hair falls down like a parade of angels/ singing a symphony/ and I hold my heart in my palm as I try to match the beating rhythm of yours/ and it's an illusion/ A house of mirrors/ a long/ aching well that I’m falling deep into/ and landing without a splash/ Your eyes illuminate the skie...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Thank you.

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  Time is ticking. Your heart beats like a thousand tiny toy soldiers marching across your chest And you grab your confidence Your strength And you carry yourself off like a king holding every emotion other than pride behind your stone walls You bring yourself to a halt watching your life flash...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Raindrop Dreams and Galaxies

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  I. The sky kisses a long, solid breath to my lips As the clouds sat like soldiers across the land- The sky and I had become one. The little patch of green grass swallowing everything like it was all that was left on this empty planet. When I look to my right skies are crying sheets of rain...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Untitled

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  there was a time when I though relationships were as simple as “you” and “I” morphing into “we” I thought life was a swing set that would sometimes leave us face down against the wood chips and a relationship meant someone would be there to nourish every wound little did I kno...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Stay.

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC

  Is it funny? Is it funny to see me babbling and bumbling, bouncing back and forth between what is right and what isn't? I hope you don't think that these dark illusion set off by the flames in your eyes are the results of a chemical reaction love being the biological catalyst to ...
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  Hopeless Dreaming

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC
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  Christmas in Summer

  

  By CarrieElizabeth, Hanahan, SC