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A collection of poems I'm writing on this magical journey


Pickle Jar
For someone who's meant to live in a Cherry blossom Hollowed out acorn Tree nook Tomato plant Pickle jar turned Palace This... As in THIS Can all seem a bit much

Lauren Rock
Feb 171 min read


Updated 2/13 - Bucky
Part 1 It's funny how I see things now How old thoughts Feelings That would have taken me out Transform suddenly Judgement Ego Bad decisions I see it now Sometimes good grows From shit Sorry Grandpa You never liked swearing But you really should give Henry and the Hendersons another chance I've always loved the hidden, weird Outcasted Until I was an outcast Until I never grew past 5'1" But the weight grew instead Fitting in Being liked Be accepted Nothing else

Lauren Rock
Feb 132 min read


bEWARE
Beware of those who shame you into explaining yourself over and over again as if something is wrong with the way you think the way you see the world beware of those who demand you justify your every word emotion feeling stare at you harder as your lip trembles stabbing you over and over and then calling you "too sensitive" BEWARE of those who shame your need for clarity fairness Who praise your anxiety When your mental illness serves them Only to call you out in meetings abo

Lauren Rock
Feb 14 min read


300 Years Pt. 2
And it's EVERYONES fault dad especially But he couldn't know how You'd internalize his words But that came later Now You're pissed Everyone hates you You hate them right back You hate yourself more Everyone is out to get you Some of them were But that came later Everything feels like a trigger Hair pin My nail beds Caked in blood permanently Balled up Fists Nails digging into flesh I fight invisible foes Every night The worlds Laziest vigilante Fighting ghosts In her best she

Lauren Rock
Jan 81 min read
Maybe
You failed a test You didn't know You were Taking Maybe you should have studied anyway

Lauren Rock
Dec 10, 20251 min read


Witches
The bitch of it all they never stopped hunting us The question remains When will we tire of running

Lauren Rock
Nov 23, 20251 min read
A little lazy
Relax it's just indigestion I am magic I am moon Stars I contain multitudes I'm trying not to thinkin terms of Right and wrong But I was wrong She says cheekily Context is so Important But I was wrong Once again It's inside out Not outside in I'm ancient Stars I've existed for millennial And I'll exist for millennial more I only need to exist This is not hubris This is waking up I got the magic in me She says cheekily The tools, my beloved trinkets, the relics Only enhance Wh

Lauren Rock
Nov 19, 20251 min read
Three Poems
Did you feel that? the one that always played the jester was in reality the queen all along just look at that crown Today I don't hex but if you find yourself extra itchy today Maybe today was the day I changed my mind. Mischief Is this all new? Or am I just starting to remember? Was it lost? Or forgotten? Or ripped from me? By this society that taught me to hate me before I really ever knew me loved me Could defend me But it is FLOODING back now All

Lauren Rock
Nov 19, 20251 min read
Force
I've ever told you "I love myself" I was lying If I've ever told you "I've finally accepted myself" I was lying If I've ever told you "I'm beautiful just the way I am." I was lying I have spent years loathing myself tearing myself to Shreds every second of every day Screaming Screeching Shrieking Internally How am I still Here? How did I not succumb To those wounds A small voice was there Gasping Crawling Fighting For air Enough Stop Why Help A stream of light Through the cav

Lauren Rock
Nov 19, 20251 min read
Ever forward
Everything lives rent free in Fran's mind Every interaction, every word, every hurt, every joy It is all in there all the time Dancing around Singing Laughing Screaming It can get ever so loud In a world that is already ever so loud and complicated unfair hurtful But Fran knows there is magic too everywhere it's been buried by all that other stuff Fran felt it a light A small glimmer back in the deep space of her mind like a small beam of light breaking throug

Lauren Rock
Nov 19, 20252 min read
Trees
When I started talking to Trees I truly thought "this is it." I've gone well and truly mad But it was better than the current location truly so I kept talking And then I started listening Have you ever really listened to a tree? Perhaps not If you aren't well and truly mad Have you marveled at they're roots how they snarled and anchored stretch and twirl into their trunk The perfect stage for the branches to dance and sway their leaves like a million butterflie

Lauren Rock
Nov 19, 20251 min read
300 Years Pt. 1
My fingernails are bloody from raking over my body for the last 30 years or 300 checking every imperfection every swell, every curve Am I bigger here? Is that getting smaller? What a tragic distraction They taught me to hate my body Before I even understood what love was They took my power And replaced it with Fear Obsession Self-loathing People pleasing Over achieving Hardness where there should have been softness grace love Almost everyone woman who has walke

Lauren Rock
Nov 19, 20253 min read
Two Poems
Bob Dylan I no longer have regrets Or at least I've changed my definition of the word It does not exist in my world OK but if there was one it would all the music I pretended to like To be liked And it didn't even work What are you doing tonight? Visiting my ancestors Talking to my spirit guides Singing made up songs Dreaming about living in a magical turtle shell Humanly and ethically gifted of course Being Whimsical Magical Who I've always been How about yo

Lauren Rock
Nov 19, 20251 min read
Be Excellent to each other
The most magic of spells can Come from the most unseen Places And you can't tell me Keanu Reeves Isn't a Wizard

Lauren Rock
Nov 17, 20251 min read
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