Brave Not Perfect- Formally:...

By IAmBraveNotPerfect

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Darling, to be Perfect Is simply not real. True tellings of domestic abuse in poetical form. This is the t... More

Warning: PLEASE READ
Introductions
Some facts
Thank you
Who will listen to you
Just a spoonful of salt
A girl made of coal- part 1
Those monsters we kiss
Diary dust
Butterfly promises
Gorging on girls
I'm no princess & the pea
My bf built me a fairy house
Fairy Tales
Run
Not scared of me are you?
late night lawn conversations
A Lock, A Key, A Locksmith
Why do I return to you
You
This isn't love
Hairbrush hopes
listen
Love me seeds
Those hardy shade growers
Dry up
Muscle
Stop living in fairy land
The wind
How do I write this trio
Sometimes I wonder
Feed
When you love the hated
Step 3: Isolation
Welcome home
Rope
chocolate eyes
A message to herself
Two for the price of one
Throw me to the wind
The beginnings of building
Fairyland forever
Fortresses take a while to rebuild
mental health awareness month
Very clear videos
Craft paper voice
Please
A witch
please #2
The courtroom
Travelling
Grey sunbathing
Exploring paper cuts
Blister splinters
Ghost, leave me alone
Stepping on shadows
Carry on
Looking for heartbreak
My poetry
Trusting takes time
Fitting
Bedtime Stories
Drown. Me. Again.
Succumbing
Can you predict a shipwreck?
You belong
Pre-packaged dolls
For the girls with ink tears
She's gone & it's 4am
I dug my own grave
I admire poets
cyber awareness week
You don't get me
A Revelation
Sod off
Your poems
Tinder
Dedicated to generation Z
I wish I said thank you Dad.
Oh insecurities
What kind of gardener are you?
Sending flowers
How did we get here?
A staring contest with the devil
10:45pm
Pulling petals
Hold me poetry
Sheets are not a shield
New message
I'm not 'that girl'
My mind's a liar
My minds a library
Believe me I want to
Weather update
Wild wondering
Ghost hunt
Butterflies arising
Star letters
The sand collecting girl
The page turning girl
Light me up
90 poems later
remember
How?
Why
Not yet
ghosting
Trust me
Misplaced
wanting to be heard
Reporting is never easy
A message to myself
Stop judging
Beauty
The year(s) I live
The poet painter
Soul Merge
A prison life
head & heart dance partnership
How will this end?
Perspective
"Healing"
"Healing" & Healing
Through The Looking-Glass
Once upon a time
what you told your parents
This is a girl's choice
Warning#2
My 2019 Christmas
Swing Swing
mother knows best
I wish someone told me
7/10
Do we know what we want?
A white pill
will you?
can we?
Point one of a chance
I understand now
Have a little respect
Ice Mother
Note to self 3
Forgiveness
Freedom is not easy to find
The left behind
What I dream of
I found a Mother
Seeking
I'm an earthquake girl
No Trust
Seeking company in lies
Soar Darling
A "Book Life"
words can murder
Justice will come
the weak hurt the strong
Dear
To Fairy Heidi
the last note to the deadfriends
The first day of my free life
no plan? no worry!
to be human
a warning to a girl I knew
No nutritional value here.
Rent-Free
Eviction Day
This is not forever
Jigsaw pieces
Soul & Bone Home
Dear Heather- I will not try to kill myself again.
A Fairy-Garden Life
Soul-Seeds
Truth
No hushing
Dear brave readers
~The End~
Special thank you

A girl made of fire- part 2

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By IAmBraveNotPerfect

New poem 26/06/19

A girl made of fire- part 2 to 'A girl made of coal'.

The beautiful girl with
Blistered insides
Smiled black cinder teeth
From cracked ash lips
The coal he had fed her
Remained lit
Inside of her
His hands trembled
As she approached
The smoke ghosts of his
evil intentions
pooled from her nostrils
'Darling you thought you destroyed my voice,
But instead you merely
Set my words on
Fire.'

- Oh how she glowed, she glowed, she glowed.

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