I paint melancholy on winter white parchment the texture crisped rice beneath sable tip frosted breath hovers cloudlike above brush strokes leaving delicate shapes obscured, unfathomable © 2021 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All Rights Reserved Photo by freestocks on Unsplash
melancholy an aquamarine tide that washes over me flooding my banks piercing my sea walls reminding me how deeply human I am how delicate how fragile this woman’s heart © 2018 Revised 2019 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All Rights Reserved
Sappho wrote that words we leave unspoken will be wept if true soliloquies must rest like sugar undissolved on my tongue © 2017 Revised 2019 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All Rights Reserved
songs-that-rip-your-heart-to-shreds playlist on Spotify chosen unconsciously to pick at raw wounds that bleed too easily lying on the floor I stare at the ceiling uncomfortable on the unrelenting surface too inert to move doesn’t matter where my body lies I am trapped in my head haunted my own ghost of remorse © 2017 Christine Elizabeth … Continue reading Black and Blue
I can feel the fading as color washes out of me I grow transparent insubstantial my feet no longer make contact with the ground I open my mouth to speak there is no sound a barely breathing ghost who has lost gravity I slide right through you no impression made barely stirring the air © … Continue reading Insubstantial
notes on the piano haunting half steps like spring rain on my heart gentle at first soothing becomes a melody of blue melancholy penetrates deeply erodes defenses leaves me raw is echoed in tears that slide steadily silently down my face neck breasts becomes my heartbeat as I fold in on myself to staunch the bleeding © 2017 … Continue reading From Night to Morning (Antologie)
Brave & Reckless 