I want to plant my feet into The earth until they take root.   I want to stay here, in this Place that feels like coming Home, and never leave again.   I want to live inside of that Sunrise in Seboomook, relive  The night…

In these slight hours when the sky beings stir and streak the clouds  with wakeful orange  light peeps in through slanted blinds and curtain parts like a child excited for the day   As the world lights up I am cool and asleep in a…

Let me slumber now an eternity awaits as I decompose   © 2021 S Phua

A splash of cold water A slap to the face Gotta keep going Pick up the pace! Just a few more to go Before we are done 24 poems in 24 hours So much fun!

Me and me Ways to see How graceful you can be It’s just me and me Copyright © 2021 Roxann Lawrence (Poetessrock)

Starry Night: Over Rhone   The immersive exhibit blares on the speakers, engulfing ears in tunes, gentle lullabies broken up by drums and trumpets. The lull of the paintings stretched across the walls lulls minds and hearts into worlds that don’t exist. Stars curl around…

I wish my anxiety wasn’t so desperate,  That I could plant seeds without immediately  Needing to dig them back up because Maybe they aren’t the right seeds or  Maybe I don’t know how to give them what they need.    I wish I didn’t feel…

Houses make me nervous They can burn down Buildings with floors Have the possibility of collapse Bridges are unreliable London Bridge fell after all But the Mississippi River Is the one constant of my life Sitting on its banks I feel at peace When leaving,…

My mind fragments into a million pieces A million interests and versions of myself And I am left trying to catch them like butterflies in a net Trying to cobble together any that I manage to catch    And lately, I’ve been collapsing in on…

There’s this only place in the world, That could be rated like house of pearled… The best place for the time to be still, No matter whatever wounds, they all are surely to heal… So much of peace and such calm, Eradicates negativity and undesirable…