41 Gut-Wrenching Lines By Trista Mateer To Read When You're In The Mood To Break Your Own Heart
Trista Mateer has made a name for herself in the poetry world for ripping at our heartstrings and sticking her hands into the places where we're the most exposed and raw. Her poetry is beautiful, heartbreaking, and raw. Aka: everything good poetry should
Kendra Syrdal
October 3, 2016
October 3, 2016
“I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire until you learn to stop coming after me with your hands.”
Tagged:
Love, Toxic Love
“It’s just my hard edges and your hard edges
but I swear if we touch enough
we’ll be as smooth as skipping stones.”
but I swear if we touch enough
we’ll be as smooth as skipping stones.”
Tagged:
Love, Imperfections
“I like to think one day we will both be old enough / to find novelty in childish things again. / We will lay down our keys / and pick each other / like stubborn locks.”
Tagged:
Love, Finally in Love
“I said I’d never write another poem about you,
but everything is a metaphor for the way that we left each other.
Birds flying south for the winter. Rivers running to the sea.
The moon stuck struggling in its orbit
and never really going anywhere
at all.”
but everything is a metaphor for the way that we left each other.
Birds flying south for the winter. Rivers running to the sea.
The moon stuck struggling in its orbit
and never really going anywhere
at all.”
Tagged:
Lost Love, Heartbreak