Hour One – Plight of a Teenage Girl

Image courtesy of Soorelis at Pixabay   I am happy, then I am sad; I am young but feel so old Then I am old but feel so young; Sometimes, I am “just me” Other times, I am everyone I could possibly think to be…

I am…?

“I yam what I yam.” – Popeye the Sailor Man, 1929 “I am I, Don Quixote!” once proclaimed the brave knight to emulate him I have long strove sans mule, though never lacking a suitable Sancho Ponza I have discombobulated windmills slain foes with honor,…

Go, go, go

The old saying goes “Dont bite off more than you can swallow” or chew or something like that, I don’t remember.   All I’m sure of is I’ve done exactly that

Hour 1

I am the warm air rising from the ground in the city, I am the burning asphalt. I am the sigh of passing cars on the freeway, I am the rainbow in the puddles. I am memory and thought wheeling like twin ravens of old….

Inconceivable

I am a friend, I care too deeply and that isn’t the crime the world likes us to believe it is. I love fully and invest in my pack, a pack full of lovers like me. I am a worker, not a worker bee. Not…

I

I am a poet I am not a poet depending on the day a poet emerges meanders becomes a poet I am satisfied I am a poet I am fearful I am not a poet I am and will leave it up to you if…

Almost Missed It

I also missed, missed this I was sleeping soundly with my children on me I didn’t turn on an alarm because I trusted my body Just yesterday I was talking about the brothers, Sleep and Death, with my daughter Saying, how I wanna do better…

I Am Changes

Of course I am smiling.  I define me. I am a prude that wears the red lipstick that people once considered rude if not on the lips of women with low discretion. We smile together now. Because we know it means freedom…and power. I am…

Hour 1

I’m posting rather differently this year, as I am out. I will go back through them all when it’s over to edit and transcribe them.

Apologies

  Unfortunately for personal reasons I am not going to be able to wholly participate in the half marathon like I originally thought, but I hope it’s okay that I’ll still post (hopefully) a couple poems today throughout it, so that I can at least…