Poetry & Art

Respire

by Winnow Poetry • January 18, 2020

You exhale and inflate me.
False hope is the helium that expands within me.
I begin to soar off the ground.

You inhale and deflate me.
I choke on the sudden replacement of helium to oxygen.
All in one breath, gravity is reality, and I’m falling to the ground.

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by Winnow Poetry

I am the poet behind Winnow Poetry. Although I have been writing since the mid 1990s, I began putting my poetry out on social media under the name Winnow Poetry in 2019. Writing has always been the most effective form of therapy for me. In my writing I address growing up in an emotionally and verbally abusive family, relationships, depression, anxiety, and creating the best version of myself through trial and error.