Author Archives: The Splintered Pencil

5.04.23 . healthy people only give a shit about themselves they promise they love you and they would give you the world if they could but when it really comes down to it no one will every be as important as them their dreams come before friendship they always forget your birthda- and cut youContinue reading “humanity always plays the main character”

This is how I cope with loss. Dedicated to my cousin Ryan < 3 Forever loved, never forgotten. . Remember the day you died? the day God clutched you to his chest as your family wept at his feet? how selfish of him. you had set a new lifting PR that morning but you neverContinue reading “The Tides That Stung like a Bullet”

*Student Choice Piece* . my footprint is a stroke in Earth’s painting a single artwork in her collage just one breath against the nape of her neck; She says nature will take over when our bodies fall her vines twirling around rib cages through eye sockets of skulls that once saw freckles of sunlight inContinue reading “Dysphoria Tastes like Graham Crackers and Go-Gurts”

*Acrostic Poem* . Another man tells me what I should do with my body, he says Supporting rainbows is a sin Except I don’t believe in sin or a God who would allow those Xanthic eyes try to change my identity; I’m Unable to hold his lustful gaze As I come to realize Love doesn’tContinue reading “All Across the Spectrum”

*Prompt: Clear Character Voice* This is what the neighbors saw; a pale white body in pieces and a fifteen year old girl standing over it holding a hatchet. There’s definitely going to be a complaint about this. I don’t know why we had to move into a stupid HOA home anyway. Everything has to beContinue reading “I Don’t Like to Bury My Hatchets, I Like to Throw Them on the Ground and Hope They Catch on a Toe”

*Creative Nonfiction Assignment* When asked how many children she had, Mom would point to Father and say, “he has three, I have three and we have five.” After letting the questioner’s baffled face simmer, she would explain how their previous marriages left them each with two children and that I was their only shared child.Continue reading “This Is Not the Beginning of a Memoir, I Don’t Have Time for That”

*Personal Poem* I’m the lost sheep beaten by my shepherd wanting to be like the wolf that gnaws on my bone I’m a peaceful sinner, a vengeful saint I worship God and the Devil in the same prayer then to to bed athiest . non-believer never felt right on my tongue but then again, neitherContinue reading “He Was Never There to Lick My Wounds”

I don’t remember the sound of excitement or the taste of sorrow Depression left me on the side of the road and Ambition doesn’t want to hold my hand when I cross the street Danger left me with too little fear, Caution only tightened her shackles . Loneliness likes to squeeze my wrist at partiesContinue reading “My Friends Like to Toy With Me”

*This is not my last post* . My lips don’t know how to say it But my head loves the word, Loves to hold it in her hands and cradle it like an infant. She wants to nurture the beast. And every time it rolls around in her mouth, she beats the belt harder. Goodbye.Continue reading “This Isn’t Denial, This Isn’t Acceptance, This Is Mourning.”

I am way too busy to write anything for the poetry slam thing, so I was just planning on using a poem I already wrote, but I have no idea which one to use. So if you could just like comment one of your favorite posts of mine or something, I would really appreciate itContinue reading “okay i need your help”