In my youth, there was sometimes beauty, a grace of form unmarred by lines, skin tight to the flesh and muscle well defined, hair curling and furled down to a waist a mere eighteen inches, spanned easily by the hands of the man who became…

Munch, munch, munch! The Bookworm chews through a book Gulp, gulp, gulp! The Bookworm slurps up the knowledge Nom, nom, nom! The Bookworm finishes another.   A pile of crumbs left in the wake It’s off to the library to re-fill their plate.

  Prompt 25 Hour 20 Read the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot and use any of the lines, words, or phrases it contains, to write your own poem (Italicize Eliot’s lines)   And indeed, dear husband, there will be time,  As soon as…

“You rest; I’ll pray,” A friend told me the other day. Four simple words, And I’m reduced to tears.   Because, for so long I thought I must be strong And stay awake And pray for God to hear.   The cries of so much…

Sleeping next to you not only feels like home, it feels like taking my bra off at the end of a long day. Like starting to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the fourth time. Like walking back into high school, almost like I never…

In the wee hours of the night the standstill can be deafening The others on the way have the same work to keep up with knowing they are there, makes the final hour worth heading toward. Lonely in the quiet of the creative night  there…

Sleep sneaks up from behind my closed eyelids my soft snoring startling myself awake   I can’t sleep yet! My tasks are incomplete But sleep doesn’t care It tries to dig it’s claws into me Drags me down to dreamland My body is crashing.

this deep and wicked loves (inspired by phrased found in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot.  These phrases will be in italics in the new poem) we fell into this love deep and wicked piled high with sharp-sided facets we…

This one here is probably the most shittiest one I have attempted There will be time, there will be time, Time is generous, Time is thoughtfully spared -to meet the person who beholds the face, to keep up appearances. and manages aquaintances. There will be…

Bonfires and camping Road trips, sweet drinks, and first dates We all crave summer.