Hour 4 Prompt Letter For my sister we seemed easier in the days before chaos and cancer and changing into superheroes when all we needed to be was weak and open to each other so we could lean into each other while we leaned…
Category: Miscellaneous
Hardened Heart
The crust of the Earth holds many secrets Petrified in rock and wood. Therein is the shape of a heart seared through layers of sandstone. Did erosion cause this art? Or did some ancient lover carve his love into stone? Then again, does it really…
Picture This – My Officer, My Son
I last posed with you for a picture at the airport 177 moon sleeps ago. I had to ask for the picture, but there we are in our winter coats, time escaping too fast my heart racing below the layers because for the first time…
A Fallen leaf
Leaves fall like broken joy, from her beloved tree. Pain is felt by both the dying leaf,falling free and lonely tree.
Body
BODY ________________________ Collection of bones and sinew Star stuff and muscle memory Billions of breaths forgotten Heaved and sighed without witness As my twin lungs carry me Some etch on the panes of memory Leave the silvered shadow of their image For sunlight to…
And the Gardener Likes to Drink Tea
And the Gardener Likes to Drink Tea Eves come no longer to pick up Sweetness of flowers and fruits Fondness of streams and dreams Scent of forest is long gone Maddening patches of soil in turmoil Homes and domes are razed And the gardener likes…
Body
Not enoughToo much A journey of delight my hands traversePlains and valleysCurves and edges A shame spiral Button strainedBreathe in denialTill I spill out Im sorry I should never have tried to make you fitIts just that they told meThat you were unfitAny bigger and…
The Revolt Poet – Spot the Difference.
Powerful & Continuing Nationalism: I think it is safe to say, without expansion, that’s still present in both of them. Disdain for Recognition of Human Rights: Is that not why advocates for peace and left wingers are deliberately mischaracterised, as terrorist sympathisers? Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats…
Smiles
Smiles“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” Walt Whitman I smile because frowning causes wrinkles.I smile because things can really be worse.I smile because I deserve happiness.I smile because the world is full of dark places I choose not…
SunDew
Misty gold peers over the mountains The grass cold and glimmering with morning dew Small details so meaningful and fulfilling Away from the city Away from all the pain Just me and my gold Watching the sun float through the sky Dawn break…