Poetry – Quinn Steele

Insider’s Look – You Hold All the Space

You Hold All the Space special, they tell me fall so fast gone, their sight on me they grasp paw and cling, won’t change a thing you and you and you you bring what follows you becomes enough darkness now my candle snuffed This is about my lifelong struggle to balance my need to be…
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Still

This is one from my one-word challenge, where people give me one word and I write a poem using that word. Still Drip. Swirls of chaos Drip. Overwhelm Drip. I can’t do this Drip. I am done Drip. Take a breath now Drip. Settle in Drip. Let it warm you Drip. Go within Drip. Doesn’t…
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Insider’s Look – Lonesome Soldier

Insider’s Look examines the inspiration for poems written in my Bleed with Me series. I wrote these poems during a period of transformation. It was the first phase of breaking free from the chains that bound me – career, a marriage that was no longer a partnership, a loose definition of my role as a…
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Insider’s Look – The Secret to Business

Insider’s Look examines the inspiration for poems written in my Bleed with Me series. I wrote these poems during a period of transformation. It was the first phase of breaking free from the chains that bound me – career, a marriage that was no longer a partnership, a loose definition of my role as a…
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Insider’s Look – Fleeting Fox

This is one of my favorites that I’ve written, it plays on power, submission, sexuality, love, and loss. I have no personal backstory with this one, this was a fantasy I had while listening to music. I was the fox in this scenario, being overpowered, cared for tenderly, ravaged, loved, and set free. I think…
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Rainbow

Each color is within you blinding, subtle, real yet only when together can the rainbow be revealed
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Insider’s Look – The End

For each Insider’s Look, I take you beneath the covers for a poem from my Bleed With Me series. The End battered by your frozen tongue tells of nothing I’m undone deepest cold it has me too undercurrent silent truth This was about the end of my marriage, when the truth felt too big to…
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Insider’s Look – Almost Family

This is one from my first series, Bleed With Me. I grew up in two homes. In one, I lived with my dad, brother, stepmother, stepsister, and two stepbrothers. I came from humble means, I can still remember the taste of the food stamps I helped lick and affix to the vouchers to take to…
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Peace

they said it would be quiet muted, calm, serene said it’d lead me softly like a cloud into a dream peace had other plans for me bold, precise, alive dragon’s breath, full of fire deepest passions now will thrive
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Discernment

quiet, darkness things fall away pulling, pulling everything grey age old wisdom emerges now with every breath unveiling how trust connection allow, embrace all within you an endless grace
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