Today I spoke at the Happy Valley Goose Bay Town Hall for the proclamation of National Poetry Month. This is a new poem that I wrote for the occasion, straying outside of my comfort zone and […]
The writing and photography of Mandy Joy Poole
Category: Poetry
revisions
don’t lose this don’t abandon these feelings this life is non-renewable so you can tell me please tell me even if it’s just a whisper there’s a noise we can’t place feelings we can’t face […]
Roots
you didn’t dig my roots you didn’t even burrow but everyone loves a sturdy evergreen in the right light thrown in the middle of barren land my humble advice to you is not to sell seeds […]
blossom
I blossom for you against my better judgement hope everlasting. M.
a person abroad.
Life is a storybook and I’m trying to accept these characters For what they’re destined to be Trying to accept the fates and fortunes The fools and follies The givers and takers The glass-half-broken folks And […]
untethered
my heart is a carpenter’s light fixture exposed wires, dusty lightbulb hanging above the room (perhaps the elephant within it) above the truth a quiet referendum all the flowers have been picked my grief untethered. M.
beneath everything
if i were to describe the way in which i feel about you, it would best be described as a hum you know that constant sound that’s always present even when no other sounds are […]
Miles
the eighth edition a derelict addiction the desire to be opposite to taste what the other side is offering keep me grounded, tie me down we still have miles to go M.
Love In September
the moon tore apart the fleshy clouds and we drank from her light every last drop like stolen property silence spreads across the sky blanketing our sorrows your love is immeasurable M.
legacy
i have a legacy to protect for breaking names and taking hearts (yes, i noticed) out here in the wildwood all you see is what you think you see do you see? live tastefully | […]
how it is
I am promised to drown in the ocean not in love, in pity, or in thoughts of you. how it was is not how it is M.
the daisy
a marriage of words soaked together with rosé grade school playground feelings things still look black and white still basic, still innocent, still free (if only you knew) — where is your light, when the […]
I learned from the girl
i learned from the girl that lives inside of me saying no is harder than saying yes being gentle takes practice and hate is easier than love i learned from the girl that lives inside […]
Allâk
all of my edges are rough i am the truth of the north imprinted of rocks, of sea of barren land of the fox we straddle both life and death but we […]
Katsek
A natural cadence about it — sometimes, the exact width of my patience. I pencil you in indefinitely. Let’s not make a racket. It is always autumn in my heart no matter what set of eyes […]
Letting Letty Go
dreaming awake stumbling if I gave you the deed to your life, would you [ab]use it? all of this effort – all of this time you were deceived when red meant go counting all your […]
