<![CDATA[Stories by Renae Tobias on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@renaetobias?source=rss-c139099005f4------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*1Y5R8tu8JrMiJG62inblhw.jpeg Stories by Renae Tobias on Medium https://medium.com/@renaetobias?source=rss-c139099005f4------2 Medium Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:30:18 GMT <![CDATA[Wear your emotions like bruises on my skin.]]> https://medium.com/@renaetobias/wear-your-emotions-like-bruises-on-my-skin-6aeeb6f2b84a?source=rss-c139099005f4------2 https://medium.com/p/6aeeb6f2b84a Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:05:54 GMT 2025-09-27T06:05:54.789Z Wear your emotions like bruises on my skin.
Intense, fast, powerful;
Coloring the lives of those within your reach.
Wield memories with razor precision.
See how I bleed: my skin a canvas painted in my history told through someone else’s eyes.
Hear the cacophonous resonance of hollow words. They tear through vital organs as if constructed of folded paper.
How can paper bleed? Some gaping wound poring aortic floods of pain drenching the world till I see red.
I am fury wrapped in dried leaves and summer grass; a tinderbox waiting for some random wild fire.
None comes...I am still waiting destruction, rebirth, oxygen ripped from my lungs as screams I swallowed till they sat like stones in my gut.
Sinking into sadness anchored down by the weight of words branded on my soul by careless tongues.
How fitting:
A water sign drowning in the ocean of her own story.

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I have seen how I will die: Eyes wide; lungs gasping, Lips painted in silent cry.

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]]> https://medium.com/@renaetobias/murder-most-foul-8eac26090073?source=rss-c139099005f4------2 https://medium.com/p/8eac26090073 Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:40:08 GMT 2021-08-01T19:40:08.220Z <![CDATA[Flying’s for the Birds]]>

In the deep,  With pressure mounting, And my voice silenced  By the roar of passing ships  And screams of greedy gulls; I dreamt of the…

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]]> https://medium.com/@renaetobias/flyings-for-the-birds-b15db6573f32?source=rss-c139099005f4------2 https://medium.com/p/b15db6573f32 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:19:45 GMT 2020-07-29T02:24:41.572Z <![CDATA[I Have Never Been in Love]]>

I know what you must be thinking: “That can’t be true.”, “I call BS.”, “Never; really?!”. I have been in lust, had childhood & celebrity…

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]]> https://medium.com/@renaetobias/i-have-never-been-in-love-37754ff05306?source=rss-c139099005f4------2 https://medium.com/p/37754ff05306 Tue, 28 Jul 2020 23:17:15 GMT 2020-07-31T05:39:22.761Z <![CDATA[Who Calls so Loud?]]>

Nothing never scared me ‘Till he spoke my name in the echo of an empty room. Curtains drawn & candles snuffed, Such violent promises made…

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]]> https://medium.com/@renaetobias/who-calls-so-loud-f60306cc64d0?source=rss-c139099005f4------2 https://medium.com/p/f60306cc64d0 Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:10:32 GMT 2020-07-22T22:10:32.413Z <![CDATA[Lonelyhearts]]>

For the upcoming holiday of Valentine’s, I am making tuxedo strawberry macarons. I already have several pre-orders and anticipate several…

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]]> https://medium.com/@renaetobias/lonelyhearts-7045a36099af?source=rss-c139099005f4------2 https://medium.com/p/7045a36099af Tue, 04 Feb 2020 19:33:42 GMT 2020-02-04T19:33:42.154Z <![CDATA[Puff Pieces]]>

If you can’t take the heat…

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]]> https://medium.com/@renaetobias/puff-pieces-ef4aa605b49a?source=rss-c139099005f4------2 https://medium.com/p/ef4aa605b49a Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:56:51 GMT 2019-11-07T18:56:51.875Z <![CDATA[Sweet Nothings]]>

After marika bianca’s Whisper Prompt for Poetry Under Cover

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]]> https://medium.com/poetry-under-cover/sweet-nothings-55a1cf6926af?source=rss-c139099005f4------2 https://medium.com/p/55a1cf6926af Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:34:47 GMT 2019-06-07T16:34:47.437Z <![CDATA[Looking Glass]]>

I wanted to fall in love with: A whisper of bourbon curls,  Secret smile kissed mulberry lips, Well of souls the eye.

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A one-line poetry prompt.

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