staring at
the sky, pink-blue
that just
cried its eyes out, dark-maroon
emptiness
from the inside, don’t know what to do
close my eyes
or hide inside my room
i cry in veil
as the man
cut my wings
the defeat
led to my feet
his actions,
his words
still haunts
my existence
should i stay
or die?
About- This poem is about loneliness that i penned looking at pink-blue sky and instead of feeling love all i could do was question my existence and this feeling is scary.
on a ship
wandering on seas
a sea of
peoples seeking for peace
i asked them,
“if the ship
went down, which flower should they use at my funeral?”
he said lotus
but I said
lavender
she said
peony
but I said
sunflower
out of the
crowd someone screamed out,
“use a
bouquet”
i asked
‘why?’
he rephrased
it and said,
“idiot they
all mean recovering and peace”
About- This poem is about seeking peace through all the chaos in your life. So keep looking for your stolen peace.
my
firm belief in your words
that
i believed it to be true
you
played your games
but
hid your troops
“i
love you”, is what you said
but
it lacked the feeling of you
memories
i woven on a tangle thread
but
you burnt it down with me and you
ashes
from your fire reached my crown
and
our ill fated love reached oblivion
i
tried, you tried and we both screamed at the sky
now
that you’re gone, my cries cannot reach to your sky
my
friends seek pleasure in my pain
my
lover died before the age
my
eyes cried in longing of you
searching
closure but pain is here to stay
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song "hoax" and is about Betty grieving the loss of James who died fighting in the war. She is missing him yet still standing up for herself because James cheated on her, which is something she can't forgive him for but she knew he loved her and it was Betty herself who couldn't love him again and now that he is no more, she has realised she loved him as much he loved her.
high rising
waves crashing on my tomb
the tomb of
stone i built on my grave
a sailor on a
sea on a ship with no sail
i carved my
story on stones with my nails
in a well
where my savior’s hands feel shorter
escaping this
town is only way move forward
sun never
rises in my forever cold world
peace is
something you will long for in my world
so
i’ll try
i’ll fight
i’ll love
and
i’ll die
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song, "peace" and is about James leaving the town because he couldn't forget Betty and is depressed. It is after that he decided to go on The Great War as a way to escape. I wrote this poem based on my emotions that keep reminding me that my fight for peace is a never ending torture.
in your void
i hear voices
that guide me
to places
an escape
from my messes
“lift up your
gun son
and run to
the battleground
seize their
cannons
and come back
to the town”
enemies on
the shore
is back to
kill you once more
the death you
escaped before
is back mi
amore
so the voices
said,
“fight like a
hero
roar like a
hero
die like a
hero
or come back
like a hero”
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song, "epiphany" and is about James going to fight in war to forget Betty while he is depressed.
like scene in an old cinema
they expect me to let down my guard
to let my fort infiltrate by their
soldiers
and execute me like a witch on the
holy ground
and if i found someone to count stars
with
then i'm to be crushed by your stones?
if i stand up for my belief
if i stand up against a liar
if i stand up against a cheater
if i seek explanation from him
to clear the gray haze that he brought
upon me
they imposed the title of "mad
woman" upon me
colors are a merry mirage
i speak words true in this hearing
before you
sky color is not permanent
leaves color is not permanent
your pink painted sky turned gray
again
and leaves green lost their color in
fall
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song "mad woman" and is about Betty moving on from James and finding someone new while everyone keep calling her mad woman.
pain that
still exists in my lips and veins
blood was
thick but lighter than my weight
your
mornings, my nights
my mornings,
your nights
heaven
arrived at my door
when you
moved by the lake
now under the
same daylight
now under the
same moonlight
sunflowers I
planted point to your place
heaven told
me,
“it was fated
in the first place”
i wandered
through the woods in my head
i drifted on
an ocean made of my tears
always in
search to find way out of gray haze
and so he
painted my sky pink
when he stood
by my grave
standing
on altar
they
said “greatest lovers united”
bejeweled
in ‘shiny stones’
later
to be thrown back
at
me in courtroom
my
obscured vision of love
i’m
stripped off your ‘lover’ title
how
did we get here? My love
from
singing together at our wedding
to
you playing at my funeral
trying
to put back the bricks
that
you once threw at me?
realization
struck you
when
I’m gone
your
efforts will go waste
but
dear you succeeded in saving your face
your
tears of regret won’t dry any sooner
my
love wasn’t an illusion
you
will share my tears
but
I wish you well
and
someone who will share those tears
birds have
nest and they call it home
but you sneak
from my back door
in fear of
your girl
when you can
leave her
and we can
build our home
you take the
path away from plain sight
you use
perfume to hide fragrance of our love
this affair
born from match fire
and is
burning my skin
tell me is
the wait eternal? and
will the
weight continue to grow?
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song "illicit affairs" and is about Augustine asking James to stop sneaking around behind the back of Betty and just come and live with her.
loudest was the music from her parties
loudest was
her audacity
to come in a
town
and challenge
the town’s rules
stole
neighbor’s dog
and sent a
clear message
her degraded
reputation
and unnoticed
kindness
got her a tag
of mad woman
never scared
of bringing change
Now a role
model
For women in
her age
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song "the last great american dynasty" and is basically about Betty moving out of the town to a house on Rhode Island because she kept missing James. In the song, she is telling the story of a woman who lived in that house. In the song, it's Taylor telling the story behind her 'Holiday House'.
darkness
that once I befriended
is
pulling its strings and laid down it’s plans
the
tales I recited following the shadows
of
his and her, my and their life
are
being used as a canon
to
shatter decomposed walls
who
plead me to say “yes”
with
every single breeze,
with
every single breathe,
i
refuse to kneel before defeat
in
my cold barren land,
every
season feels colder
but
I’m looking at horizon
waiting
for that summer
to
let the dear readers know
“i’m
trying not to dissolve in the darkness,
that
eternal excruciating peace”
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled, "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album 'folklore'. The poem is based on the song "this is me trying" and is about James fight against depression. I penned it based on my fight with the depression by combining it with the element of the song.
Dear
readers,
i
now recite a tale, a poem,
aviothic
wishes, made from the glass
to
hang in the hall, where peoples dance
if
i rephrase it, i'm a mirroball
i
carry the weight of my emotions and thoughts
the
moon dancing around blue earth,
a
mirroball in the space
shinning
bright till the eclipse hit it
i'm
fine till the mirroball breaks
i
know i'm in pain but i'll still smile
shine
like a star that never turns dark
you
know,
the
star has a work to do,
because
down there somebody is looking for
something
to look at
to
calm their inner storm & be at rest
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song "mirrorball" and is about Betty trying everything she can to get James attention, while she is in pain probably because of her abusive father. The poem however does not limits itself up to here because it is also about celebrity culture.
our
long lost love in depths of time
our
story like a folk tale
started
with a kiss and ended in a torturous goodbye
will
passed down in time
to
be recited for generations
was
never too pure and dark
in
my wistoragic periphery,
i
saw you come and leaving
i
wonder,
what
if our mondegreen conversations
never
led us to different places
what
if you would've been the one?
the
one i would dance with
the
one i would host parties with
the
one i would sing my songs to
the
greatest love of all time in our own movie?
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song "the 1" and is about Betty accepting that their relationship has finally ended.
(James)
bid
farewell to this town but
search
for closure brought me back again
i
thought you would wait
was
love a joke to you?
"how
could you move on?", i asks myself
my
sighs louder than the wolves howl at night
seventeen
is just a age, i regrets my mistakes
you
were my essence, soundtrack to my life
now
i see you dancing with him at the ball
the
lament in me for our lost love never faded
i
always believed you would come back to me
(Betty)
the
train didn't stopped and reached oblivion
your
ambivalent decision led to our demise
throwing
back words at me
saying
there were no signs
while
i carried the weight
and
you had your perfect summer love
an
absentee, a cicada your whole life,
now
at thirty, you ask me
"how
could you? how could you move on?"
i
gave you chances after chances
while
i was dying from the inside
the
pain your betrayal brought me
memories
still haunts me at night
i
tried talking to darkness
but
she felt bored hearing
my
missing and crying
after
you absquatulated me
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled, "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song "exile" and is a conversation between Betty and James after they meet each other, years later they broke up when they were teenagers.
the
train wheels stopped at a station
and
the roads leads to lake harmony
my
homestead, the town my memories roots run deep
the
air feels fresh while the sun is overhead
walking
down the road, it brings me to a house
where
a friend of mine once resided
i
faded away from her life when i was eight
i
try to summon her face but
her
haunting childhood flash before my eyes
seven
but her abusive father left her traumatized
stranded
in an ocean from which she can't swim out
she
would sit alone in her room
playing
with the dolls wearing her mother's cardigan
and
whenever i saw her, she would just smile
all
she could wish was to fly high in the sky
too
young to know the right steps
i
wonder about her whereabouts
and
is she fine?
i
should've ran away with her
to
a place far away from her father's reach
to
a place in the mountains
where
the cold winter feels like summer
where
she would've spent time singing like crazy in valleys
where
no one would've dare to hurt her again
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled, "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer" which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. The poem is based on the song "seven" and talks about Betty's childhood. I wrote it from my perspective as if i'm her friend.
Sorry will
only pierce another spear in your heart
Forgiveness
is all I seek to drown again in your eyes
17, yet torn
apart by this lover affair
Wish your
friend’s words were her another lie
Slept by her
side, never lost your sight
Rusted your
summer, visited you in dreams
I feared of
him taking you away
I took the
wrong step
That led me
where I stand
At your porch
At your party
Seeking for
forgiveness
Waiting for
you
To curse out
your anger
Or kiss me
again
About- This poem is part of my poetry collection titled "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer", which is written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song "betty" and is a letter from James to Betty, begging for her forgiveness after he came to his senses to realise he fancy her and not Augustine.
Your actions
speaks louder than words
Your desertion
of me this whole summer
Brought me to
end of my life
You said you
love me but hid her on the side
Traitor and
betrayer lack the feeling
To describe
your actions
While I was
struggling for breathing
Darkness of
night became my new friend
Slept alone,
telling her our folk tale
I painted in
my head
Like an old
cardigan one refuses to wear
I carried the
weight with spear in my chest dear
I let the
porch light turned on
But you
showed at my party with another spear
About- This poem is part of "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer" collection of poems written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song "cardigan" and is a letter from Betty to James that how she waited for him whole summer while he was with Augustine.
yesterday
august knocked at my door
today
he is once again here
and
asked me if I’m fine
with
every week, month, year passing
the
time continues to count days dear
since
you sail on your ship to seek peace
leaving
a part of you engraved in me behind
stole
my peace,
pushed
me into the storm
who
once was oxygen
is
now a poison pushing me to grave
never
ever before my eyes punctured at night
never
ever before i thought of goodbye
i
knew the risk i was taking
i
knew how it would end
yet
i chose to love you for your words
i still do, i
fear
About- This poem is part of "Folklore: The Folk Tales of Summer" collection of poems written based on the stories sang by Taylor Swift in her 8th studio album folklore. This poem is based on the song "august" and is a letter from Augustine to James that how he left her to reconcile with his ex Betty, who he cheated on with Augustine.