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Danielle Schalk

@thepoetdanielle

After years of seeking I’ve finally found the peace that exists in sitting with the rain embracing the falling and its role in becoming as water pours from the heavens wetting soil to prepare it for prospering for blooming starts in gloom it starts from a seed in the dark and now I — sitting in the ...Read more

An enigma encoded in a wealth of light and sound our reality defined by neural program — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

From the heart of sky ancient luminaries pour their effervescence dripping into waiting mouths of those souls bound to the Earth — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

My mind enmeshed in a misty pour I grasp for a memory rising to whisper once more I’m suspended in time as I stand in the door for I can’t shake this feeling that I’ve been here before — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

I’m enwrapped watching your liquid dawn entranced by its cool gleam sparkling off all I see I’m swallowed whole allowing it to overwhelm me surrendering my soul to such a placid ending — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

Momento mori how I wish some being had possessed the foresight to whisper this to our budding love I must not deign to believe it a bulb that may lay dormant but accept life’s singular fact all things must die — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

I have tasted tomorrows with slick salt on my tongue a promise whispered to my sleeping mind I awake with images still lingering along with longing for soft flesh against my finger tips Do you feel the dawn drawing nearer too? — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

I feel I’d be wise to salt this earth from which I retreat But there remains too much hope in me — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

This heat wave has been building for weeks and there’s no avoiding the thought that it’s got to break eventually but who will cut the tension we’re feeling is it her or is it me this ever-building wave of energy manifesting like a summer storm visibly approaching that inevitable feeling a release ...Read more

Lost amidst the tides of circumstance our ties became frayed as we strove to survive the waves — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

Invoking pleasurous times and the scissors of fate partakers must first learn true respect for Belladonna’s name for she may grip the heart of those who drink too deep and those who ask a second chance of nightshade do not oft receive — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

I got lost in a relationship crushed under the weight of grief and slowly tainted by my honesty I got lost refusing to let what was dead be destroyed when true decay would have been a relief — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

I can still taste that cherry wine the one we drank on those lost summer nights it seemed to suit lingering on our tongues the way the humid air hung between clinging to our skin meaningly embraces that were but a tease of something that was only just beginning — ThePoetDanielle...Read more

You had developed this reflex a reactionary move you made to extricate yourself Your hand (your vulnerable true self) From me (from public view) An odd leveraging of your ring finger against my palm and voilà You became the mask of a hetero woman My hand falling to rest at my ...Read more

You were slick and sweet like molasses possessing dangerous, dark depths And I, a foolish creature was lulled by pleasurable sensations Too pleased with myself to see the trap I had willingly sunk myself in — ThePoetDanielle...Read more