Paperweight Poetry

People will say it went by too fast Life was short and it wasn't fair But it wouldn't be this way if we let moments last If we showed Time that we actually care. For all Time sees is us whittling away her body Carving her with the knife of our life Tallying the days on the trunk of trees Twisting back her arms in honor of our strife. So we cannot curse Time for only giving us so many days, When we drank champagne and cheered for the year to go away. -anna sluder

I always imagined stars like dazzling balls of energy and light like a hybrid of champagne and sparks and the poetry of lips. -anna sluder

If there is a reason behind your silence Then there is a reason why your collarbones shake Like your heart is too wide For your unfrequented chest to take Or maybe you turn your body away To hide the way you cry Because your eyes are too small And your reckless tears cannot lie. So there has to be a reason For the black mascara on the walls For if there is no design Than I am nothing at all. -anna sluder