Look before you leap, If the tide’s in, the water is deep. But if the tide is out, there leaves little doubt, Muddy and mucky, you might not come out.   It is always just another day, ringed ‘round in the coming and going of…

How much strength does it take to become invisible? To blend into tacky wallpaper and stale conversation? To be consumed by the deafening silence that seeps into every molecule, every atom, the very nucleus of your existence? How much energy does it take to scream…

Benefit of the Doubt (A Golden Shovel)   I wonder if you’d change if you had the chance, but I suppose I’ll ponder that forever. For I have no more hope to give that you will find the words to say I’m sorry, that you…

Times of differences Is normal But it too shall pass Moments of sadness Is normal But it too shall pass Days of darkness Is inevitable But it too shall Pass Copyright © 2021 Roxann Lawrence (Poetessrock)

Languidly Leaves listlessly Leaning Rustling, Sighing, Seething With thoughts of Rain The rain that does not come With it’s sweet smell Of Innocence and Ozone This Rising Assassin we call Heat Rising before the sun, he comes With his Great Killing Swaths Bleaching the world…

From the waters I evolve And he drops The jaws In the sunshine I dissolve Yes I am free Of flaws In the skies I fly Up Above I’ve also got claws! A mystery No one can solve I’ve grown against Nature’s laws

It is clechically common to say “When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me” But, if this were true wouldn’t the word then be spelled “assoutofyouandme” ? And isn’t it pretty presumptuous to assume that the spelling wouldn’t change? And if…

I never loved him Just the idea of being him Or like him With his legs Those legs that could Do anything. The rumors got it twisted, dunno why the witch thought That I was in love with a stranger Or that three days was enough…

In my comfort, you came. In my brokenness, you swept me away. Like the ocean, I brought peace; Like the pandemic, I shut you in. Take me, break me. Hate me, love me. Hold my hands Or don’t hold me at all. This too shall…

I imagine I am a willow I imagine I am a crow I imagine I am nothing Stop Rain Thunders Willows in the sky Screams I imagine I am an ice cream I imagine so I exist