Gaia Octavia : Writing

Unleashed

Unleashed

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


Come, open-mouthed, and pour forth your silence
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untitled

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


This ragged beast licks its wound: festering, putrid, ugly pride
The Difference

The Difference

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


I am the difference after the equation: me plus trauma, minus years of self-medication
Unhappy Uniqueness

Unhappy Uniqueness

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


I wonder if snowflakes, being forced so together, are ever bitter about the impossibility of finding another quite like themselves
Muted Opus

Muted Opus

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


It may not betoo late,though my harphas been strungI am tunedand rhythm readyyet my songremains unsungFor now I muststay silentbecause I wouldleave yo..
Solitary Creature

Solitary Creature

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


If you must affix some blamethat I stay master of my nameto love only Earth's creationsand her endless explorations, it was dear Artemis - and her anc..
Savior Complex

Savior Complex

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


Collecting empty shells, filling them with pitch -- with the blackness of my void Yet I wonder why, when they prick, I bleed.
In a Cemetery

In a Cemetery

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


While wandering throughcold granite plotsI came upon a sorry lotTheir heads were benttheir arms aroundwhile sleeping flowerslaid on the groundBeaded d..
Dragon

Dragon

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


Do not mistake my softness for clay, for I am the beast and you are the prey
Graveyard Angel

Graveyard Angel

A Poem by Gaia Octavia


I always wake to find you there: a wisp of memory, soft as a palm pressed to my cheek. Your eyes: two celestial reflections, polished in glistening mo..