May is a month of decisions for many, especially as the coursework deadlines draw to a close. As many students look for internships, and others towards graduation, it’s a time of change. With this in mind, it felt only appropriate to put together a showcase on the theme of ‘decisions’.
Weary
I have grown weary,
lethargic from retiring
the part of my soul designed to love.
I have to protect my heart,
for another blast to it may
take all I have left.
I am withdrawing my love,
it has been fighting in vain
for too many months now.
The stereo plays with my emotions;
“I know it wouldn’t come to love,
my heroine pretend”
How true, I am a falsity.
A projection or a place card,
a reminder of what is to come
without fulfilling its job.
I am tired from this retraction,
from the training of my heart
to love again, and another.
I dream to sleep, to pass
idle hour on the never-ending repeats
of your laugh, and scent,
and scolding jests.
I sleep to dream of you.
To live in the moment when
I was enough to make you wonder,
wander into my head.
Holly Wilson
A Haiku of Uncertainty
A degree now done,
I’m left unsure what comes next,
Only time will tell.
Georgia Butcher
None Can Pretend
Mediate, castigate, break down
Scars; don’t want to pretend what you really
Are- when what you see, is what you
Feel: tired of hiding from all that is
Real, real to you, just real to
Them: who re-write your story with their old ink
Pen
Watch it crumble all away after
You, you do:
put out that hand,
Crumple into ashes, like paper, to make your
Stand: tear the evidence
Tear down them all
Re- wear what they’d stolen and rise up from
Your fall
You can now stand tall,
Choose not to pretend it any
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Olivia Morel
Stay tuned for next month, where poems will revolve around the theme ‘Transition’. To get your work featured, send your submissions to entertainment@impactnottingham.com.
Featured image courtesy of Georgia Butcher.
Article images 1 courtesy of nghiem vo, image 2 courtesy of David Lofink, and image 3 courtesy of TMAB2003, all via flickr.
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