2022-07-30 12:30
My hair is graying and wrinkles adorn my eyes and my lips giving away simplistic realities of age. My breasts dance a little lower, my abdomen resists waistlines, arms give way to gravity. M… Read More
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2018-01-14 22:17
Over lips into the aether
clamoring, clawing, climaxing
birthed intention
breath or suffocation
help or hardship
painfully joyful or painful
universe born
Out of matter onto matter
scribbled… Read More
2018-01-14 21:05
World without end
exists only in soul space
visited and revisited memory
until memory you become
and you live on
in a world without end.
So for me, I shall dive deep and breathe in
the chill… Read More
2017-11-16 11:19
A storm is brewing
On the horizon covered with old trees and dying things reaching towards its darkness, hungry to be swept up in raindrops and flashes of desire
Bold clouds twist in and ove… Read More
2017-10-14 19:54
At this table, I’ve stared at the blankness of my mind for too long.
The longing of my skin has numbed and the countenances of strangers
have come in place of who should be here… Read More
2017-10-14 18:42
light shimmer
sit simmer
beneath leaves
to see
you
not a face you made
under different stars.
Under branches
heavy with shade
take the best of me
even, if you cannot stay.
for in the end
I a… Read More
2017-10-14 18:23
Do you think the rain is the universe letting our souls cry when we can’t?
Do you wonder if music is our hearts reaching out to connect?
Do you ever listen to the darkness waiting for… Read More
2017-10-14 17:29
We all tell lies
We all drink bitter truths made by our own hands
And expect the truth of it to age well under our skin
We all expect our flaws to diminish and fade
And expect the cracks and… Read More
2017-10-14 17:23
Night shade shadow and wine
adrift
strange voices mingle and fade
The rising tides of a forgotten day
familiar
Until three bright stars of Porta Lei,
joyful lights on a solitary sea,
d… Read More
2017-10-14 17:16
Dear darkness,
Wrap me in your love
In dreams I will never taste
In peace I will never know
In pain I will never forget
In hope I will never breath
And then when my heart completely breaks
W… Read More
2017-06-07 02:09
Incantation to the Neverborn Prince
Come.
I wait, alone
pitch shadows
claw the skin of my soul
feeling nothing
but silence.
Speak.
words once heard
echoing in distant thoughts
of silver and… Read More
2017-04-05 02:26
Light on warm breezes
the morning frog serenades;
a universe awakensFiled under: 2017, Haiku Tagged: frogs, Haiku, morning, mystery, nature, Universe Read More
2017-03-30 03:44
Rebel against the truest lie you ever tell;
you’ll never be good enough
For what is enough?
What is good?
And never is dead against the flesh of now&nbs&hell…Read More
2017-03-23 01:21
Lingering here in folds of sheets
tossled and cast haphazardly
is the scent of your touch
remains of your breath
intensity of your stare
and memory of your arms
guard… Read More
2017-03-21 01:48
I can only say this once
Then the words will resonate at a
Different frequency
a sound heard twice from the dark side
Of the bedroom
First the cat then a thief come
To stea… Read More
2016-12-26 23:30
I have not thought good of you
in secret I have cursed your name and called you darkness
laid blame at your feet as an insolent child throws down a broken thing for having disappoi… Read More
2016-12-18 21:08
The year is ending.
Slowly days replay and readjust their meaning
into shadows of better and worse self.
I try to reject the possibilities
of my own wrong doing,
and yet, know
I shall… Read More
2016-12-18 20:48
In one year
I raged, wept, laughed,
stumbled, flew, dived,
and drowned.
names carried
like selfish, friend, love,
blind, cynical, hurtful,
and superficial.
words languished
became silen… Read More
2016-12-04 16:42
vitriolic words
slam violently skin
threads of anger
spit strange truth
holy water from a “god”
violent sentiment
ashes of courage
false victories for personal relief
unapologeti… Read More
2016-10-04 16:52
Woke up this morning
crying again
Wish I could call back
every simple sin
Leaving my heart to break
And seep into cracks in the floor.
Oooo
Saw you yesterday
Tried to stay away
L… Read More
2016-10-04 16:48
Beloved darkness
Come for me
Comfort me
Come form me
Beloved darkness
ComeFiled under: Poeticly Speaking Tagged: Beloved, create, dark, darkness, form, me, poem Read More
2016-09-20 09:59
I wonder if the stars get anxious
When the sun begins to crest
The edge of a world sleeping?
The moon of course is always touched
And on occasion visits her brother
But the star with no name… Read More
2016-07-28 22:10
Press against resistance
deliver from moments left on the floor
scattered across the hall
I run.
Seething at darkness creeping
into photograph ghosts left hanging
littering walls with pain
I… Read More
2016-07-28 22:00
… over the edge of lips
A kiss
immortal
in your arms I rest
in your arms I fall
ever more in love
though all about lay broken
glass and wood
words unwritten
unspoken
unheard
in your k… Read More
2016-05-18 04:01
Thought of you today
As stars breathed life into night
And dusk fell asleep in the arms of the moon
Where sun gladly bid with kisses the edge of skin.
Smiling, I drift to sleep… Read More
2016-02-26 11:56
Come sweet night
Cover me with tender kiss
Discard the robes of day with fierce word and subtle touch
Lift the veil of light and blindness
So I might see your stars and caress the face of dr… Read More
2015-12-21 21:27
Pieces on the floor
memories I tried
to throw
out
:breathing:
some of them are glued
some of them are tapped
suffering on the table of my life
too precious to get rid of
too broken
to
love
h… Read More
2015-12-21 21:04
Clouds float where I long to be
where angels tread and secrets breathe
Sky painted blue, not for me, maybe you
and if I could just grow wings
I would sail above the froth an’ fro of
al… Read More
2015-12-05 20:23
Shadows linger on the places we use to lay
wrinkled sheets bend to the cold now
replacing a once longed for heat
and there is nothing left to cast aside
just ghosts lingering
Lighting upon… Read More
2015-11-27 20:31
Ghosts reside here
Ignorant of a life once
treasured
Silence hangs boughs
Dripping with lost anticipation
Waited
but lost
And now the drawers are empty
And there is nothing to fill them
With… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Carelessly discarded memories wind down hallways creep behind creaking doors seep surreptitiously under crack over disembodied dusted frame escape rug left to withered worry flicker lig… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Hope speak to me on winds effervescent and pregnant dream budding under the skin of spring’s ultimate coming despite winter’s constant touchFiled under: Poeticly Speaking Tagged:… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I have drifted far lands of clay to stone steeples still chant voices call Filed under: Haiku, Poeticly Speaking Tagged: benediction, far from home, Prayer, prodigal daughter, s… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
(written 3 years ago – rediscovered today) Here it goes again voice lingering out of reach echoing on an undefined horizon beyond sun and moon captured by stars yet flickering …… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Some see exactly what you write the words in their meaning syllables in their place Others see exactly what you meant the words hiding meaning syllables trading spaces with truthFiled under:… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The laundry is piled in the corner on the stairs and in the hall it hangs over the chair back gets under foot never finding resolution the basket never empty the laundry is piled in the corn… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Just when you think the world has no sound each breath screams a silent dream of every thing you cannot reach every mistake never and ever had when rains refuse their fall to disguise all yo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The waters rushed in hard breaths over rocks seemingly unwilling to be moved yet the ocean continued nonetheless Undaunted, unrelenting. I, in admiration sat myself breathlessly recognizing… Read More
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