Shame Red faced- the person in the mirror that doesn’t even meet your eyes. Your insides are knotting up Strip yourself of the unpleasant feeling. Accept it and acknowledge it, but don’t empower your shame. Get over your shame. Guilt You feel responsible, Maybe you…

To Love someone dearer than your life is a beautiful but reckless feeling. To trust your heart in the hands of your lover, you surrender to the eventual consequence of its demise or the birth of something beautiful. Either way, you have to walk on fire…

So happy to participate in a 24 hour poetry marathon. My head is tired. My heart is happy.

Your innate ability to perceive tomorrow and clearly predict it So that friends and family are guided and led aright Often times this has led you to the summit It is a gift.   Once, you have averted a plane crash that would have erased…

Return Gift Do you remember the gift you gave me When I was small? You had said that I would become powerful When I wield it in my hand As thoughts flow Now I realize how mighty the pen is All your life you preferred…

Sleep rests the brain Also arrests the brain Stops reasonable thought When reasonable thought Is most needed Vampires do not exist That friend is not dead We are NOT going back to the service industry No one gave us a million dollars (more’s the pity)…

Covid Waiting in lines galore.  It is no fun to go to the store. The rules change every week, if not daily as the virus piques. It’s not only frustrating or aggravating. It is out of self preservation that we battle the lines to hunt…

People are different all the time and I hope you are better than most of them Love them Massage them Pamper them Calm them They are not satisfied and they treat you as footmat Understanding people is a difficult game to master and since I…

Lights turn off Lights remain Twinkling red Blue Green Eyes ricochet Across the space From light to light Trying to draw constellations In the dark Maybe this will guide us home

White Plume Who knows from where The white plume flew Making the green undergrowth its home Perhaps a little egret Pampered, lost and lonely Left a trail for its mischievous lover Hour 22 @varenyas