Design a site like this with WordPress.com
Get started
Skip to content
AJM Writes

AJM Writes

  • The Truth is a Monster: A Monster Calls
  • Invisible Cities: Poetic Response
  • BBC’s Years and Years: The Future is Loading

strings of words are powerful things

Tag: Poetry

Labyrinth

creep into my closing eyes

daydreams, dreams, fantasy, imagination, labyrinth, love, poem, Poetry

Space

micropoem, Poetry, space, writing

The Ease of Falling

“we’re history
there’s no point in anything. Just kiss me”

ignorance, laziness, lazy mornings, passivity, poems, Poetry, sunday, surrealism, tired, writers, writing

Locked Down

Scrolling. Losing control. I’m trying, really, I am, to refresh the page and start over.

competition, coping, corona, coronavirus, covid, covid19, experience, finalist, lockdown, personal, personal essay, phones, Poetry, quarentine, social media, story, storytelling, teenager, telegraph, wellbeing, words

From the Window

When we dipped our toes in the devil’s honeyed water, your eyes became blinding blue fluorescent lights. Why did they make me stare for so long?

intimacy, love, magic, poems, Poetry, prose, prose poetry, rain, raindrops, valentine, valentines, valentinesday, window

Apocalypse

First post of twentytwentyone 2021… in February, yes I know. I’ve been working on quite a lot of poems so … More

apocalypse, defeat, eclipse, end, end of the world, February, hope, Percy Shelley, poems, Poetry, Romantic, T S Eliot

Summer’s Apology

inch by inch,
watching the whiteness shrink

blogs, climate change, cold, darkness, fading, hot, poem, Poetry, sand, seasons, snow, summer, winter

Singing for Idols on a Drowning Island

It is the light,
that blinds realism
so I can see.

comments, drowning, earphones, feeling, headphones, immersion, music, poem, poesía, Poetry, spotify, youtube

Memoir to Myself

Dear future self- sigh google said this would help it’s not like I’ve got the virus anyway,  I’d like to … More

bored, covid, diary, isolation, letter, lockdown, lonely, lonliness, memoir, poem, Poetry, quarentine

Finding You (foyle 2020)

Those, too, crossed seas,
crossed continents, just to be

bananas, commended, culture, finding, food, FOYLE, Hanuman, indian, poems, Poetry, search, supermarket, the poetry society, travel, young poet

Pandora’s Crime

Pandora will tell describe
how it was hope, alone
which allowed her to survive.

box, fear, greek, hope, injustice, mythology, pandora, poem, Poetry, punishment, racism, repressed, story

Enveloped

lost to a red abyss
between hesitant words and a half blow kiss-
beheld by candlelight,

communication, connection, envelope, journey, letters, love, pen, poem, Poetry, writing

Don’t let the grass grow

Build a city. Build a home.
But just don’t let
that grass grow.

body hair, buildings, city, female, feminism, flowers, freedom, garden, hair, lawn mower, natural, nature, poem, Poetry, urbanisation, woman

Wet Summer

embraced by nature, then let go
again.

autumn, clouds, journey, poem, Poetry, rain, running, seasons, storm, summer, walking, weather

Left to Drift

when the ocean spreads between
I stay, free
but bound eternally
by tugging tides of curiosity

fishing, lost, love, metaphor, mystery, poem, Poetry

Free Flowing Fighter

They bleed,
from their pain-
seeping inside,
these unspoken
frustrations

bleeding, charity, female, girls, menstruation, pads, period, period poverty, poem, Poetry, poverty, sanitary items, sanitation, women, women and girls

A Week in a Day in a Lockdown Life

To float in streets,
where nature walks free.

coronavirus, covid, inspiration, isolation, life, lonliness, Poetry, quarentine, schedule, timetable

Las Maravillas y Las Mariposas/ marigolds and butterflies

Si fuera a pie If I were standing Contigo, With you Allí There Mirando al cielo Looking at the sky … More

español, flowers, maravillas, mariposas, naturaleza, nature, poesía, Poetry

Pilgrimage of a Garden Chair

Better to be made king
of the non-living,
than born martyr
in sunken clay.

comfort, garden, journey, outdoors, pilgrimage, Poetry, pride, ruler

The Clouds Still Cover Us

We are not bad people,
We just did bad things.

forgiveness, history, improvement, mistakes, past, Poetry, reparation

Table Top Tantrum

Broccoli makes my braces snap,
Carrot makes my heart collapse.

cooking, culinary, food, frustration, Poetry, vegetables, words

Change Direction

They say ashes to ashes
dust to dust

climate change, earth, earth day, nature, Poetry, spoken word

Don’t Let Her Down

Sneak a sideways glance
squeezing soap
and wash your hands

mirror, Poetry, reflection, self belief

An Ode of Adolescence

bare hands- rugged and sweet- slip
to absorb this tear stained cheek
…

adolescence, flower, life, ode, Poetry, teenage

Laundrette

You’re in my mind
going round and round
…

clothes, laundrette, love, Poetry, valentines, valentinesday, washing

Cover Up

I bow down to the great empress;
Defeated.
The masks that smile
and cover
my flaws
with a different type of
paintbrush.

appearance, makeup, Poetry, teenage

New Beginnings

basking in the rays of freedom.
relishing in the risk of nothingness

2020, beginning, decade, new, new year, Poetry

Hazy Days

Inspired by the brief feelings and
fantasies
of alternate realities.

daydreams, dreams, Poetry, reality

All This Time

©AJMwrites2019

Poetry

Invisible Cities: Poetic Response

Beware of perfection the ripples of dreams and dangers, of impotent possibility beware of your desires: for nightmares haunt the … More

dreams, illusion, manchester, Poetry, reality, theatre

Plastic Bottle Girl

environmental, plastic, Poetry

menu

Blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • AJM Writes
    • Join 78 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • AJM Writes
    • Customise
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar