Self Portrait- Prompt 19

Imperfections are noticeable first Beauty isn’t a requirement it was a temporary perk one now discounted as looks invade fragility everything is magnified here I have always struggled with my body even then I saw myself bigger than I was breast and feet size made…

If It Were Me

If it were me I would be; The northwest side of a house. Where I could shade From the intensity of a noonday south And the guard myself from the overly dogmatic eastern past.   If it were me I would be: a tree on…

Will- from Pandora Hearts Soundtrack

Hr. 7 Prompt 6 You must be going now The time has come We may never meet again We had a moment in time Please don’t take too long This was meant to be Life happens so fast Hold on to those moments Become what…

Self-portrait | Surya T | Poetry Marathon Poem 19

Cacophonous sound of the alarm rings still in my ear, an hour after it sounds I drag myself out of bed, beginning the day Start the day happy – I feel immediately guilty Alas, there’s no hope of gaining lost time Nor any chance of…

Just be Still

Just be Still …Just be still, and listen the mottled wishes are rioting below the molten magma the basalt heart cannot hold longer the spirit is to fly soon and then, a new life will be invented Hour 18 @varenyas

hour 19 reflections

i am a jar of mixed beads filled with odds and ends hoping for the needle to find a match when i string pieces of me together to make images in glass fit for ceremony

Hour 19_3:05am, Hour 19, Poetry Marathon

Grabbing snippets of wakefulness then sliding back to wide-eyed oblivion. My spiritual teacher says when the mind lets go, or in this case, can no longer hold – there is an opening; much is revealed. May it be so!

“The best things in life make you sweaty.”

“The best things in life make you sweaty.” Edgar Allen Poe Best things in life  surprise you. Not always right in the face, obvious. Best things in life  are sometimes people. You don’t recognize  their importance at first. When I see you now my palms…

The Talking Drum Again

The talking Drum Again   The talking drum again It’s still beckoning to me As it speaks in tongues, Tongues of the drum Known only to the initiated   Well, I think it’s talking to me But then, the drummer only Has the last say…