Secret Lover (Poem #17)

Peace It’s all I feel with you It’s like going to the beach Listening to the waves crash The wind blowing through the trees How did I get here? How did I deserve you? What did I do to earn this? What do I have…

prompt 19: the end

the end The farther away we get from our Mother, the more of Her we break dirty heap with hatred. We demand our desires be filled at Her expense at our peril. Our wounded egos filled with all manner of things to feed our starving…

Hour 17, Mystified

I peer over the shoulders of strangers, a tourist in my own body. Am I here? I ask myself, nonexistent until noticed. No one turns back, meets my gaze, and sheepishly glances away. Their attention is focused forward, to a future misted and glazed into…

Impressions

Every time I write down something I wonder who will come to know of it Will this tattered composition book land in the Library of Congress? Or will it see its end in the garbage heap behind my apartment building? Will my thoughts and creations…

prompt 18: in the beginning

in the beginning the centre is forever forever begins in the centre where love makes us all in the likeness of itself   love wept for gratitude so that water filled spaces love could not reach.   the heartbeat followed: resonance of drum beats in…

prompt 17: remembered to the land

remembered to the land The day I read: “the land remembers you, even when you are lost,” I stopped, lowered the book, and wept for every speck of dirt left behind in places where I left my name, ragged and bleeding, while newly, unfurled leaves…

Prompt 16: it’s all about the chemistry

it’s all about the chemistry hovering around you in twos by twos by twos by twos you stabilise me. all pieces of my shell bonded when we dance together around centres, positively neutral, we stabilise each other so the centre will hold itself and us…

Hour 16, Transition

As though the cells of my body have transitioned to another place, translated into a future me I do not yet recognize, my mind stumbles clumsily behind, aching to be reunited. I float within this space, gathering wool round the edges of my tiny universe,…

The Wind (Poem #16)

Ever so often In the wisp of a moment I hear a faint whisper Ever so often In the mystery of the day I feel a soft touch Ever so often When life seems so down I feel a sudden rush pull me Ever so…

Prompt #16

A long hard road, lay ahead of me. I didn’t know how long it was, I didn’t know when it would end. So I kept walking through the forages cutting past my doubts facing my fears, all the while Dealing with the reality of the…

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