R.C. Taylor

Joined July 2021

0 stories

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Part-time daydreamer. Full-time dork.

Follow along for stories about a little bit of everything (i.e. adventure and other affairs of the heart).

Achievements (3)

Stories (227/0)

Top Story - November 2023
Tiny Heavy ThingsTop Story - November 2023
do you ever think back to the days when we were just guppy souls swimming in a fishbowl, minds tapping on curiosity glass
By R.C. Taylor13 days ago in Poets
She's Inside the Binding
do you cling to Rupi Kaur's words like i do, ⠀ running full speed ahead, along the off beaten stanza path, ⠀
By R.C. Taylor2 months ago in Poets
Mud in My Eyes
I've been told my fat body was sculpted from mud so I had to believe that it magically would become a dainty flower if I just
By R.C. Taylor2 months ago in Poets
Virginia Woolf Stones
my dreams were high in the sky, fingertips brushing the tails of the shooting stars they tried to catch before you kept filling their
By R.C. Taylor5 months ago in Poets
lip balm sun song
her lips will be warm and nice from the pear lip balm sun song that will bake on in the heat of the day. we'll work hard side by side then
By R.C. Taylor5 months ago in Poets
A Star is to Me as the The Sun is to We
If only I can make the moon sigh my name once more with the same care that you used to do mine—like an amen hung in the eve sky
By R.C. Taylor5 months ago in Poets
Top Story - June 2023
Your Failed Masterpiece Top Story - June 2023
Why did you chisel me down like a daydream mattered more than me, words leisurely sharpened on the whetstone of your tongue to shave away my Aphrodite stomach rolls,
By R.C. Taylor5 months ago in Poets
Crowns Sometimes Need Crowns Too
Dear Black Women with 4C Hair and Depression, Oftentimes, as women, but especially as Black women, we tell ourselves that we have to take care of our appearance first before
By R.C. Taylor5 months ago in Poets
Poet Community, Meet Your New Best Friend
Hey Y'all, I'll keep it short and sweet. If you're a poet on Vocal, and you're also frustrated with how we have to personally maintain our stanzas with an asterisk or some other character to avoid our poems becoming one big stanza, this is for you. Here's a lovely work around I've discovered for you to get that perfect blank space in between your stanzas.
By R.C. Taylor5 months ago in Poets
Butterfly-Skinned Girl
butterfly-skinned girl, you are so fragile the lightest touch steals your iridescence, scales coming off like faerie dust powder in the hands of those who harm
By R.C. Taylor5 months ago in Poets
senescence
fireflies whispered secrets of life to us in humid air where we chased after their dance of morse code, breathless with laughter, and armed with
By R.C. Taylor5 months ago in Poets
Isolation
Her lover was like a beautiful rose that climbed up her throat, thorns nailing her tongue. Being with him was like being in a train wreck, a beautiful disaster that only snowballed, picking up debris along the way. Any small deviation from his valued idea of “perfection” only roused his anger, and she was the one to suffer. But it was only natural with the way that he was escalating that he would derail sooner or later, taking their world with him.
By R.C. Taylor5 months ago in Fiction

R.C. Taylor

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She's Inside the Binding

Mud in My Eyes

Virginia Woolf Stones

lip balm sun song

A Star is to Me as the The Sun is to We

Your Failed Masterpiece Top Story - June 2023

Crowns Sometimes Need Crowns Too

Poet Community, Meet Your New Best Friend

Butterfly-Skinned Girl

senescence

Isolation

Achievements (3)

Tiny Heavy ThingsTop Story - November 2023