Hello! My name is Heather and I have done this poetry marathon once before! Very cool experience. Poetry is my release. One of…. I don’t believe there are rules to poetry              ( although there are rules for certain types…

it is not every day one gets to meet a woman like you perhaps, it is the way heavens have blessed me to have known you perhaps, it is your charm and the things you did not do perhaps, your warmth is in what you…

Mrs. Piccolo,Wasn’t famous, though I thought the world knew her though!Well, my world did,this lady had a way of loving you and making you believe it!Her job was to teach, but she connected with each,we all paid attention at every word she did speak. We…

Not That Plath A lesser poet of married name and borrowed fame, her glorious, polished words are filtered through the sieve of my own leaky mind. I scratch and claw them forth, no elegant method here, seeping from the paper like the speckling of tiny…

No justice, no peace Can’t jog, sleep, wait I CAN’T BREATHE Comply and still die… …America

Sister Strong, Enduring Hurting, Helping, Hiding Love, Envy, You, Pride, Hope Angry, Fighting, Wishing Mysterious, Indomitable Woman

Sweet smoke from the burner, handcrafted incense high. Roses tumble in the air you are rising through, and saints and lost things: keys earrings brilliant ideas close your eyes rearrange your senses follow smoke until her name appears spelled in stars or honey or hummed…

Loving the ghost. Always. With me. Never here But in my blood, through my bones (when they creak and when they cry). There is no moment without you. I cannot reach you. Never have I wanted to feel something on my skin as much as…

The early morning fog was like thin milk hanging over the cliffsAnd the cold air filled my lungs like breathingthrough a cloud. I always liked the early morrning stillnesslike a giftthe world was giving for the early birds But that morning,the quiet was interrupted bythe…

She is mad at me; even together we are apart. I am three and screaming I am seven and terrified I am thirteen and suicidal I am sixteen and at my breaking point I am twenty two and an alcoholic I am twenty five and…