R.C. Taylor

Joined July 2021

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Part-time daydreamer. Full-time dork.

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There is a Poem in a Sunflower
While traipsing on the dunes by the beach, sea air leaving salty kisses on my skin, I saw a sunflower growing straight out of the sand.
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets
A Sleepy Deluge
Rain falls over the ocean as gentle As a lover’s kiss on worried cheeks, Sheets of deluge moving in swiftly and gracefully,
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets
the house without chrysanthemums
There are no yellow chrysanthemums here, only memories of chrysanthemums climbing trellises too fragile to bear their weight.
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets
We Might As Well
There’s something about the way that we ignore our mental health and starve ourselves, feelings-anorexics too afraid to speak
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets
Undress Me
Writing poetry about my trauma sometimes feels like all I'm doing in this sweltering heat is dressing up my emotions,
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets
About My Chapbook: Cognitive Dissonance
Note: If you would like a content warning please scroll to the bottom of the page. Recently, I made a chapbook titled Cognitive Dissonance available to the world on a whim. It's only been a handful of days since publication, and a lot more people than I expected were suddenly interested in my little book of 20 poems. It was, honestly, unexpected—very unexpected.
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Confessions
magnolia blossoms and bamboo dreams
What happened to the sweet days where we watched each magnolia blossom open like a hand and tried to crack rocks open like eggs to find geodes
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets
I thought we were building stone castles
you admitted you wouldn't have cheated on me if I wasn't a Black woman and that day I showed you Lemonade since I thought it could say all the things I couldn't say
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets
Wars Without Words
Wise Wishing Well wearily watches wanting wanderers waste wishes while walking westward, without weighing whether
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets
To Say Goodnight
all my nightmares left their playgrounds in the dark to shadow dance in the light and I was left silver lining fishing for you in the sea of uncertainty in spite
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets
What ̶I̶ ̶w̶i̶s̶h̶ I did
one night you screamed at me until I had a panic attack and kept screaming ̶I̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶k̶e̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶,̶ ̶c̶a̶l̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶a̶t̶c̶h̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶I̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶s̶t̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶r̶e̶e̶l̶i̶n̶g̶
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets
And So I Do Nothing
stranded in my mind, childhood green now nothing but a gasping drought maybe if I strain I can hear myself over the deluge way my ancestors shout
By R.C. Taylor8 months ago in Poets

R.C. Taylor

Bio

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Stories (227/0)

There is a Poem in a Sunflower

A Sleepy Deluge

the house without chrysanthemums

We Might As Well

Undress Me

About My Chapbook: Cognitive Dissonance

magnolia blossoms and bamboo dreams

I thought we were building stone castles

Wars Without Words

To Say Goodnight

What ̶I̶ ̶w̶i̶s̶h̶ I did

And So I Do Nothing

Achievements (3)