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Pepa Peeters
Oct 10, 2024
the weight of wings
my last teen summer has sprinted its way into fall, kicking the leaves into a flurry of bittersweet memories. i wrote poems, but they...
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Pepa Peeters
Jun 26, 2024
Twinkle, little star
twinkle arrived early in the morning, a tiny greyish cat dancing over the roofs of Berawa with a kitten hanging from her mouth. as my...
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Pepa Peeters
Jan 25, 2024
succumb to love
“Don’t worry, I won't fall in love.” I’ll accept the little titbits of affection, those you have left over, yank them out of you, yearn...
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Pepa Peeters
Aug 15, 2023
the peace of pretence
“what peace do you find here when you walk these fields alone?” the question hung thick in the air. unsure who had asked, the little boy...
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Pepa Peeters
Jul 5, 2023
the things i saw in corfu
a boy laying bricks with his father; they stood sweltering under the glaring sun, son silently handed bricks over, laid them in the...
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Pepa Peeters
Mar 11, 2023
i betray myself
sitting numbly next to those who once swallowed me whole, feasted like vultures on my soul, then spit me out onto a cold lonely road–...
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Pepa Peeters
Jan 29, 2023
lexical catharsis
and to what effects does the poet use apologia laced with emotion to deny she ever tightened ropes around her beloved’s neck? analyse the...
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Pepa Peeters
Nov 13, 2022
vandalism
however, this love you seem to claim
was never really yours to take;
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Pepa Peeters
Oct 18, 2022
the joy of being alone
i was told i'm the type of person who needs to learn how to be alone. mocked for craving a warm body to hide behind. and at first i...
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Pepa Peeters
Sep 10, 2022
ribeira sacra
it’s as if we’re in a time warp, driving down endlessly winding roads flanked by fairytale forests that flicker with shadows bathed in...
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Pepa Peeters
Aug 7, 2022
untraceable love lines
i trace hearts on your bare back,
connect the dots that scar you,
begging the sky to blind me
to the resolution i see in your eyes –
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Pepa Peeters
Jul 18, 2022
signposts to you
i look for signs from the universe,
such stupid things like dandelions
dotted with ladybugs,
or three rainbows in a row
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Pepa Peeters
Jun 11, 2022
an eviction
i don’t want to write down
every thought that flutters in
and builds a nest between my ears —
it would be like writing a contract;
a lease
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Pepa Peeters
May 2, 2022
i'd like to think of you
i’d like to think of you
as a streak of sunlight
battling its way through
of dark, angry clouds;
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Pepa Peeters
Mar 20, 2022
maybe i'll fly
it feels as though nothing else exists up above these clouds; where the sun dances with the moon, kisses her craters one by one— leaves...
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Pepa Peeters
Jan 23, 2022
by the river
how far down can i dive
under the treacherous cotton waves
that my bedspread has become?
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