Saturday, July 1, 2017

BLANCA ALICIA GARZA


BLANCA ALICIA GARZA

WORDS AS WEAPONS   V2

Words can be soft
like a rose petal
Or can stick in your throat
like thorns, piercing and
grasping your tongue.

A single word can
heal a broken heart,
Or rip it into pieces much
like a sharp blade.

Some words get stuck
on the tip of the tongue
without making a sound.
Those are the ones that
hurt the most.

Think twice before using
your Words as Weapons
Bite your tongue even if
you should make it bleed.

Words hurts the same
or more than punches
Those will heal over time
hurtful words remain forever
in the mind and heart.

(INITIALLY PUBLISHED ON INDIANA VOICE JOURNAL)






WHO'S TEXTING WHO?

We live in such a strange
and unkind world.

Where you can stand
beside a thousand people
but feel completely invisible.

Where a cold shiny screen
can make you feel close to
those who are far away,
but make you feel far away
to those who are closer.

Where conversation turns
into text, relationships are
just a status and friendship
a rivalry.

Where we live to work
and not work to live.

Where people are like zombies
staring at their phones and
completely ignoring all that
happens around them.

Where you can take a picture of
food while ignoring an image
of a starving child.

Where Family turns into strangers
and strangers into family.

This world is falling apart
under our own feet
Full of hatred but empty of love.

Welcome to the 21st Century,
where technology has
surpassed humanity.

(INITIALLY PUBLISHED ON TUCK MAGAZINE)






SHIVERING

Haunting memories
Of broken promises
A wall full of
Framed sorrows
A heart broken
Like a crushed leaf
A promise of
Eternal love that
Vanishes like water
Through the fingers
Cold stinging tears
Freezing my empty heart.
I bared my being
And you left me shivering
Somber clouds once more
Overshadowing my sky,
But remember that was me,
The one who loves storms.

(INITIALLY PUBLISHED ON THE POET COMMUNITY)

BLANCA ALICIA GARZA


BLANCA ALICIA GARZA: Is a Poet from Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a nature and animal lover, and enjoys spending time writing. Her poems are published in the Poetry Anthologies, "Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze", and "Dandelions in a Vase of Roses" now available at Amazon.com. Blanca's work can be found in  The Poet Community, Whispers, The Winamop Journal, Indiana Voice Journal, Tuck Magazine, Raven's Cage Ezine, Scarlet Leaf Review as well as Birdsong Anthology 2016, Vol 1.

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