http://slow.writerscafe.org/StarlightShoals The original writings of author Julia Squires en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776273802 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 eloquent eyelids fold and grow oldthe pressure applies to a plethoraas the images enter and exit my mindreminding me over and underi forgot that her feathers were fragilethe sky is ceramic, ceruleanit'll break if you tap at the glasspieces of the parchment, love letters allare littered through threa.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415754/ i walk down the shoals shedding all that i ownas i wonder where i amrecognition escapes me for this place we ended upi don't think it's what we intendedand i could accuse you of so many thingsbut i'm tired of trying to forgive themthe thought of you makes my heartbeat bleedmaybe i'll never have all .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415752/ i need a long walk through every cloud in the skyi need to spend a day in the core of the earthtake a train through the traffic that clutters my heartdiving so deep that i finally drownshe might be enough to drive me out of my mindi want to stare at the ceiling till i laugh like a childher words for.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415749/ the flutter you bring me lifts me up to the starsi settle in the skyline, home at long lasthugging my knees to my childish chestand i wish you could glimpse me from way down therebut the distance is dreary, and it might be too muchto ask...you came like a firework, echoing outbackwards and forwards .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415747/ i can look into someone and tell what they arespend a moment within them, and say what i seeas softly i smile, imparting, empatheticand they leave having learned a little thing about themdo they ever look at me?i spent the day roaming the streets of a cityon feet that existed somewhere else the whol.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415746/ i seek youhaving faith that i'll find youwhoever you are, the echo travels toward mea firework beacon that shatters the cloudsa cry for help and something elsebut the daylight obscures you - is that what i'm missing?a colorless contrast to set you against?i'm trying to figure this outparalytic parti.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415742/ you say that we're latethat wonderland waitsi don't know what to takewould you please pack the case?you say we have no timewe've lived too many liesand now that needs to dieso wave that world goodbyeyou say we'll be there soonit's after the afternoonour songs are out of tunebut i love to hear you cr.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415739/ dribbles of mist run up my armsi haven't seen the summer for a dayit cools in my collarbonetricking my tracheathere's a voice in my veinsit laughs at my ligamentsattaches to my ankleand sweeps me off my feetfloating as i fallthe vessel i inhabit doesn't fit me very welltoo loose or too tight, it scr.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415737/ my sleep is sparse and spread so thini hate to think the night will endthe sun come up, the dark descendbut most of all, i miss the windhowling through hallwayscurl along corridorstill it trails down my throatand all of my insidesi yearn to be filledby the feelings you harborotherwise i'm emptya jea.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415735/ enigma understatedheaving the whole world on one surfacesetting tiny little plates, teatime for twoand across from me is the mirrorwill i look in my eyes and be honest?eyes above the battlefield,the earth laid out between us?divide by identity,maybe it's just mathso solutions split and tangleand i w.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415732/ i'm the darker side of something elsethat needs to be expresseda lighter shade of what can't be seentucked tight inside my chestsecuring now the waking widthof secret seams upon my dressremoving grafted shards of glassto wander toward the westthe night is drained of all it's madethe sun is black whe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415730/ The sea laps the shore like the brim of a glass,A delicate duet; let's suspend the sun fromPastel pins, to prevent and prevail upon night -For once I would like to be light.And we'll string some stars in a circlet, to dangleFrom the height of the heavens,Like the crown to a queen;It might leave a lu.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415727/ I succumb to the sun and awake to a touchFrom the fingers that tingle my mind each morning;I revolve around words that I'm scared to accept,Typed out neatly across a shimmering surface.Heartbeats litter a field of bright fire,Blooming alive without wither;When the words have poured and dripped so sw.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415724/ Devour my flesh in the dance, your designSend me into shudders that leave me shaking more monthsThan I could count; place me in a paradox,Uproot me from the earthenTo seed me in the sky;I'll become a constellation,Spread out in spiral flameThat trails ten sparks and a shimmering cloakOf crystalline .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415721/ Tumbling through the sky toward a summit uncertainMy nights are alight with a flourishing flickerThat burns in my bones with an ache I can't hideDesire that damns me down to ashes unsignedAnd it can't be right, but it can't be wrongSo I twirl on the tips of my toes like I'm toldWhile casting my head.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415719/ I know that I'm nothing compared to these girlsWith their skin and their lips and their shadowy curls,And I hardly seem to know how anything works,And I worry that someday my body will burstInto something so ugly, so vapid and vileBut lacking a reason, it's only denialBuilt upon structures I don't u.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415716/ The air itself seems brighter now,Radiant wind revolving round,Chirps and chimes and crystal crowns,Lightwaves blooming clear and loud. Sugary soft and soothing sounds,Floating aloft and inverting frowns.Magic moments in perfect parks,Light that lasts and blends with dark,Gentle gems of ancient.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415713/ I feel my feelings fade and rustAlong with all I find:Smoke and ash and swirling dustFrom a different shore than mine...Through a city ceramicAnd a castle of clay;From a malady manicTo a derelict day;I've painted my panic,I've poured out my pain;It's garish and granite,Repainted with rain.Caked with.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415708/ Shapeless as a shadowThat morphs with every moment...Unformed and unbalanced, Still drifting on a dream...It began when I died,And lay dormant for years;I awoke in the dark,In the wake of my fears.A specter I was,A ghost in the grey;Invisible, uninvited,And no one knew my name.I boarded a vesse.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415707/ Curtains of fire conceal her eyes,Her shape consumed in drapes;Cloaked with night, or something like,The feel beyond her fingers.Smoke is smeared across her arms,Her heart all wrapped in ribbons;It beats in tune with rising heat,And sets her all ablaze.She whirls and twirls and dances light,She hold.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415705/ Cats can be cruel,But I've broke a heart.I scatter glass casementsTo shatter - neglect.Oceans abandon,So further I float.Drifting, deluded;I show no respect.At the cost of curing every cold,I attend my own disease.I might have mended every mold,But instead I let them freeze.Do you miss her at a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415699/ Heretical happenings under the bridge,Invested instruction - melody mine.With a waver,Give me time.There's a number, or a nounBut I can't connect the dots.Whither or thither -Will I wither?I am unused...Or unused to this climate.Summertime? Simplify?Could I ever be complex?Rivulets revel, ascend to .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415697/ What it means to me is not what it means,It's never so easy, it's not what it seems,And as I try to wrap my head aroundAll the things you say, all the things I've found,I can feel my age, too young to explain,Still rolling around in the rain.More droplets fall, I'm ever so small,And the grass is mor.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415692/ Scratchy scribbles, lost allure.Shelter away in the womb.Dreamlike ethereal, ask and be awed;Where is what it was?In the castle - or the kind.In the tassel - or the time.Fear is a framework;Here's where I lie.Why leave them lonely?Am I so very vital?Why go without goodbyes?Am I any good at giving?Th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415689/ You knew you couldn't keep him,Were the words upon the wind.Her eyelids parted slowly,No tears to keep them thin. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415686/ Mystery's mirror has magically madeA mess of who I am; so I mimic,I'm muddled, my mind is full of moths,And the swirls surrounding shadowsAre not quite like the night,And even less of light,But down and deeper stillWhere the world can dream awake;Where morning might be maybe,And evening's in my eyes.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415682/ I could slip and cry,And scrape my kneeI could steal the stars,And crown you kingI could shape the world,And make it bleedBut I won't be your onlyI could stroke the sand,And soothe the seaI could scale the sky,And make you freeI could turn the time,And fill your needBut I won't be your onlyI could b.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415678/ Will I ever seeThe sea again,Or climb another hill?If I ever reachThe highest peak,Will I finally feel fulfilled?Spin for the fire,Spring for the fall...I ask to be answered,And not to ignore;I think it's a story,But there's always more war.Look for the lyre,Lie for them all...I know a few feelings,.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415677/ I'm a very violet vessel,Within which spirals spring;Of fathers I've known several,And knelt before a king.I've been to places no one goes,Because they don't exist;I've learned a few things no one knows,Until they make a wish.I've slid through doors that always shut,And lock me where I am;I've pushe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415676/ Twist the knife in, make it hurt,Behold the end of envy;Aid the rival, make it worse,Invoke the silent sending;Take your art, and break a heart,As you bless another blending;Make it start, and play your part,Before you write the ending.Another time, another rhyme,It might not be so bad...Another nig.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415675/ I see them walk byI never know whyI can never see mineIn the mirrorOr the theatreFor as they say,It's all a stageAnd so I playAnd so I waitFor the day I prayWill come when ICan see my faceAnd then know why http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415674/ Dancing on a doorframe,Long before the dawn;Winter's where the water goes,When the tears go frozen hard.And the nighttime knows the nocturne,And the keeper knows the chord;But most of all, the mockingbirdCan't sing a single word. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415672/ I wish my mind would be quiet for once,And go a few steps without thinking,Because all this thought, this careful precision,Drives me all insane; and I look on my works,Every word I say, and I hate myself for living,For letting my poison spread, and I'd rather rambleThan choke my own voice, but.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415671/ Illusory isles dot the distance betweenThe theme of the three, and a shape to be seen,Called before the clutter; would you ask for anotherIf you knew the night was new?Every escape is never enough,Unable to float, forlorn in the fluff,Tormented by the torchesThey leave to light my way;An oak or an o.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415670/ I am the snow that drifts and swirlsI am the ice that cracks unbreakingA hardened shell that will not meltEncasing warmth withinI am the princess with skin so paleThat fire fears to followI am the winter with trees so frailThat earth goes dry and hollowI am the ghost that floats aboveThe ground I ca.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415668/                I.While the windmill wanes,The waterwheel turns...Waterworks, fireworks,A flame and a wave;Warmth expands,Cold contracts;Constriction, confliction,Confess a contradiction;Here in the hour,I have no time.And I hate to beforced in a role,plugged i.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415661/ a smile leaves an imprint...an hour has its price...Missing the magic,When every day was a dream.I used to be youthful,When my thoughts didn't bleed.Now my floating's lost fixation,And every singlecarpet blanket pillow bed,ceiling skyline sunlight skin,hateful head and purple pen,hurts instead and p.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415656/ East of the ether,I drift in the dreaming;No island awaits me,No reason to rest.I sift through the signs,I curl in the crossing;No effort unveils me,No wish to go west.I am a ghost in the firelight,I am a girl with a song;I am a rift in the wrist of the world,Wrapped and ruled by rights and wrongs.T.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415654/ Acidic eyes of overflowThat melt the heart in heat;From dragon's tongue,The flames do fly,A caress that makes me quiver.Love for what's given,A rose and a ribbon,Is ointmentFor the burn.You're slipping throughThe open wounds,And mending them anew...A hat and a helmet,My knight of night;Riddle and ri.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415650/ Yet in the darkness,Yet in the yearning...Images dance in the blaze of the brain,Proverbial place where happiness playsLike a puppet on strings of desire;Ensnared, entwined, these threads of time,A trap in which to fall; they chafe at chains,Distasteful names, wrapped in wool and wire.Agility, fragi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415649/ So that's why I wrote them,And left them there...The light turned dim and died,The girl was crushed beneath;Although she resists,The pain persists,And this craterFrom your cometIs more than I can bear.It shone so bright,Yet fell one night;The words I wrote(Received so well)Now spite my soul,Relearne.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415648/ I can't sleep, so I riseFrom my bed, and go outWhere the moon scrapes the tilesWith reflected light.There's a door at the end of the world,So I exit and ask God a question.He's busy, so I'm strandedOn the tip of a purple pen.I can hear the birds chirping,But I don't know their language.Instead my co.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415645/ Summer heat rises, the fire runs out, someone calls a name.Nothing undoes it, under a knife...may all your dreams be burned.Causation, construction, correction and a call;Remodel repentance, run away from aches,You fear and feel you've failed.Nervous habit, write a poem; express in poor conditions.H.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415644/ I go to this placeEvery now and thenWhere light distortsWhere roads divertWhere I digressToo close to the centerStand on the edgeSafer in shadowsInvisible girlMy house is hauntedBy a ghost with my nameWho wandersWithoutDirectionAn outcastOn the outskirtsA tumorUnremovedI wish they'd see meI wish the.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415643/ This is one of my most popular poems on deviantART, and it really does read like a pop song...I'm not very fond of it anymore, but I hope it's inspirational for anyone in a bad place in life. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415641/ I wrote this for someone I hadn't met yet, who I did meet shortly after...there are many events in life that echo backwards and forwards in time. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415640/ This was one of my earliest poems on deviantART, based off my username, StarlightShoals. At the time it was meant to encapsulate the core of who I was, so I poured my heart and soul into writing it~ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/StarlightShoals/1415633/