poem#3 truth and discovery we are all just pushing along- struggling to be deliberate and independent, determined to find joy where we can- love in any form; trust more, hate less- hope for satisfaction in what life has to offer; making every effort to be…

Blindly seeing the countryside as it speeds by. The rhythmic swaying of the train car crowded wth the distance between the passengers. Short phrases in foreign tongues add another blanket to the isolation, enveloping me in my silent desperation. As I lean my forehead on…

why do you ask me like i know. I’m just as scared as you I’m just as small as you I’m just as alone as you/ can you help me find it please

Between the red ferns, my belly roars one person’s growl, is another person’s piano music, as soft as young laughter.   Between my red ferns, not but an inch of skin is clear from the stretching.   They put several of me into jars, I…

Home now a distant memory A photograph embedded in the corners of her mind Her silhouette standing against the front gate Now broken now demolished In an empty house, an empty home Where did time go? Can she build again in this new place where…

Holding Mama’s hand The sun blistering my face, my body My feet burning in the sand My throat scorched Nothing to drink But Mama held my hand In the middle of the Arizona desert Waiting for Jesus to save us   No cross No crown…

Laser my heart, you brimming song, Pulverize first pause into submission. Burn aortic passage with smokey din Blind heat of pebbled words in, in, in. Singe my valves, drum my beat, pain Right where I live, not gut, not brain. Don’t say your gun’s misfired,…

https://au.pinterest.com/pin/416653403004856668/ Prompt #2 Your beauty, broken down nakedness became the garment clothing your skin. You didn’t cower in your shadow you came into the light revealing soul and truth. Vulnerability is your armour now. You stand straight and tall and you refused to succumb to…

  shut up and dance!   You, there! You, there, with your belly full of stars: can you see the path, the link, the umbilical cord between you and me made of lightning bugs – yellow flies – pieces of stars shattered by baby Thunderbirds…

Looming, Calm Immovable, Quiet Majestic, Peaceful Filling me with euphoria