Violets_and_Hyacinths (Indonesia) published:
FREE WRITING
This is for the romantic, the mawkish, the banal, the ideal, the lyrical, the melodic. You peek through the keyhole, enamored of the art of sin and lust and pure pleasure. Poetry is the product of a nihilist’s mind, birthed from the womb of an agnostic in beauty and is the same enemy of Roman annihilation, a treacherous literature inappropriate for the innocent.
The timelessness of Dorian Gray’s charm is not on par with Basil Hallward’s passion; and so...
over 1 year ago
Violets_and_Hyacinths (Indonesia) published:
PROMPT: Book Review Competition 2019
We all wish we had a childhood as carefree as Totto-chan’s. In the midst of what adults would call misery, doe-eyed Totto-chan runs, runs, moving her small feet quickly and hums a happy tune in her head, all the while her long hair flies in the wind.
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Windowis a memoir written by one of Japan’s most famous actress and TV personality in her time, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The book tells the tale of...
almost 2 years ago
Violets_and_Hyacinths (Indonesia) published:
FREE WRITING
I, as a poet
can weave individual letters
can mend broken words
can juggle pretty phrases
can bake delicious sentences
I, as a poet
can write poetry,
prose,
but not the color of your eyes.
but not the twitch of your lips,
not the flow of your hair,
not you.
You have yet made me
a failure as a writer
I want to put my pen down
in shame,
in...
almost 2 years ago
Violets_and_Hyacinths (Indonesia) published:
FREE WRITING
Blue tables and red chairs
grey beaches and pink swamps
I mistake colors for numbers,
again and again and again
your mouth full of whitewashed lies
and I fall,
fall, fall, fall
again and again and again.
almost 2 years ago
Violets_and_Hyacinths (Indonesia) published:
FREE WRITING
The tune of Summertime Sadness
resonates down to my cochlea
like a dangerous polygon
like the stranger in my words
like a childhood crush
like you
like me
like us
The tune of Wicked Game
cracks a chunk of my heart
severing its strings mercilessly
and your eyes are a pool of beige
locking with mine,
crack.
I don’t
want to
fall in
love.
almost 2 years ago
Violets_and_Hyacinths (Indonesia) published:
PROMPT: Book Review Competition 2019
We all wish we had a childhood as carefree as Totto-chan’s. In the midst of what adults would call misery, doe-eyed Totto-chan runs, runs, moving her small feet quickly and hums a happy tune in her head, all the while her long hair flies in the wind.
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Windowis a memoir written by one of Japan’s most famous actress and TV personality in her time, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The book tells the tale of...
almost 2 years ago
Violets_and_Hyacinths (Indonesia) published:
FREE WRITING
i. She had flowers in her hair. They were small and daisy-like, but she wouldn’t tell me their names. One of them was tucked in between her ear, except it was still in its bud form. When I asked her why she didn’t just wear a blooming flower, she told me, in a small, gentle voice, “I want to be her sunshine, so that when she flourishes, I will be part of her, and she will be part of me.” ...
about 2 years ago