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burningpaperplanes

I write bits of all-sorts about everything and nothing at the same time.

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burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-12-01T20:05:13

relationships in five parts

1. we love like traffic jams; boundless energy and nowhere to go with it except further together. sheets twist around our bodies as water runs round rocks, interlocked like tangled headphones.

16 4 480 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-11-26T17:49:27

recommended dosage (16+)

I am trying to shower away the weekend, but the mix of sweat, rain, second hand smoke and marker pen won't run down the drain.

18 0 270 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-11-06T00:21:16

remember remember

remember remember the fifth of november. gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason. should ever be forgot. remember remember the fifth of november.

74 3 186 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-10-29T13:55:58

299, 792, 458 m/s

every exploding firework is turning into a silhouette of you. every ray of sunlight catches the edge of your skin like a cloud with a silver lining, except i cant see whats so bad about you.

18 4 211 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-09-25T23:35:23

the worst thing to happen to my writing

I'm seeing things that are not there. I'm imagining you again, taking up space in my bed, causing my shallow breathing.

14 1 291 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-09-03T11:03:08

mission control; we have a problem.

I had forgotten how ungodly this hour seems when you're all alone and the sky is the colour of your aunts stress-grey hair.

12 1 214 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-08-17T00:51:15

it's hurts because it matters

I want to be quiet. I want to be still. but my pillow doesn't hold the shape of you any better than my hands do now.

10 1 213 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-08-13T23:00:18

there is a thunderstorm calling at my window

rain rain stay with me will you keep me company.

16 2 117 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-08-10T10:09:54

rock climbing

I'm sick to death of writing about how much I miss you when you will never read it. these spaces seem too big between my words now, eyes close for so much longer than a blink.

4 0 138 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-07-19T00:33:55

royalty

you make me feel like, I was not alone, and you tie me down forever, but I would die on this throne. as the shock waves settle, I was not alone, we wear this crown together, all I've ever known.

8 0 118 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-06-30T11:40:20

drowning in blankets

i dont know what this is, but its long so i understand if you dont read it all.

8 0 472 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-06-16T22:49:11

worthless

there is rain, and then there are blankets of water, falling to earth, guiding the word to sleep. this rain was just rain, but it felt like blankets.

4 0 105 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-06-13T23:45:50

I'm sorry for sharp tongues, knives, and days I don't move from bed.

I'm sorry I'm not enough. I'm sorry I don't want to do anything buy lie in grayscale lighting I'm sorry I'm pathetic, like broken strings. I'm sorry I'm quiet, like a mournful flower.

14 2 282 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-06-10T01:05:30

opuss should have a spoken word section, because this belongs there.

I like words. I like how they sound, what they do, the way one word can mean so many different things, there are so many variables.

6 2 238 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-06-06T01:49:24

unused pillows

she lays on the bed, curled tight like a hedgehog, a knee touching her nose, the other slightly lower. her head is off the pillow by some way, the covers pulled around her curved form.

6 4 196 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-06-03T01:27:47

nights like this

he asks me if I am okay, and I say yes. and he knows I am lying so he asks if I am okay enough to manage till when he can reach me, and I say.. yes. I should say I don't know.

20 7 198 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-04-30T23:13:42

caged animals

it's raining outside and I have a headache. we were beautiful once and now everything is too loud. the lightbulbs, the snow on the pavement and the looks they give me, everything is screaming.

8 0 253 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-04-25T20:08:50

I'm a mess

we fall and we spin and we spin and it hurts but that's life, that's what they say, but it doesn't stop it hurting, no, no it doesn't stop you crying when you graze your knee. it just never stops..

2 0 40 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-04-24T22:14:31

today

I am a contradiction in skin. walking in chains, talking in freedom, all closed up, trying to bloom. I'm so lost, and there are no maps for feelings. it's like my batteries are dead.

4 0 47 words
burningpaperplanes
burningpaperplanes
2012-04-09T19:58:17

girls built of havoc and wonder

they say, that her skin smelt like plasticine. and her tongue, she treated it like glass, constantly careful because the backlash didn't just hit them.

4 0 205 words