Life you're not here long enough to spend enough days laughing playing eating watermelon and icecream see birds flying blue skies rain clouds emptying their bounty raw enough to feel each moment slip by knowing you do not get out alive and neither does anyone else these moments slips of time we spend with each …
A Poem for the Hungry #NAPOWRIMO14
Make it simple delicious, tasty something you have in your cupboard mix things together don't be afraid to try flavor them add more taste it taste some more allow yourself to savor it each flavor each moment each bite you'll forget you were hungry you'll forget about everything if the spice is right and the …
Houston, we have a problem #NaPoWriMo14
Space Cowboys We look to the sky and wonder the vastness of space the complexity of what we see the amazement of what could be out there The adventure of discovery the frontier beyond our sphere they ride the rocket to the moon someday maybe Mars someday, maybe beyond the terrifying reality of something going …
Comfort #NaPoWriMo14
comfort creamy dark coffee slow start saturdays warm covered sheets soft stirring sounds peaceful paced walk symphony of life nature's beauty abounding momentary awareness gratitude.
#napowrimo And here we go….
"Today’s remains stand upon the virtues of stretching the truth, the idea of truth, that gold throat. We liked you as sunlight, " from “Sunshine Prosthetic” by Karl Parker Remember when we were just an idea, a fleeting miniscule cell perhaps on the brink of nothingness. There were no boxes to crawl out of, no …
Poems for the Other Half of April
Ok, this month was WAY harder than last year. So yes, 30, was finally written, although I've been writing it in my head and heart for a few weeks. Poems for the other half of April 18.Moonshine Sometimes we all look at the moon And wonder And remind ourselves of all we do not yet …
National Poetry Month 16 and 17
InspirationInspiration loststill putting pen to paperhoping for the words.Long time in the headfracture spin think think think what did oh really not a chance to change mind spin splinter why how no no no and again repeat spin fracture think think ponder reality disconnect disconnected alone what no one likes me repeat spiral fracture think …
5 stupid poems
Writing FailWriter's Blockleads to pounding head on keyboardinsane debates between the voices in my headand full fetal positionyeah.....let's keep doin' that.TurtleWhat is most unfortunateis that I was not born with a shellto pull my head and body intoto hide from that which threatens me.Instead, I was born with soft skinthin in places and bruises easilymy …
National Poetry Month 5….maybe 6….
Denial Denial isn'tA river in Eypgt ifyou're swimming it....The Zombie Apocalypse Came You and I were not supposed to be friendsIt was through our broken we stitched up bandagesmade of marijuana, alcohol, methamphatamine and anythingelse someone could offer us in exchange for thingsteen-aged girls shouldn't be selling.After intolerable, I started to get outyou had two …
Poetry
To Anya on her 30th birthday:Hey.You.You with the imagined big tattoo of 30 across the face.Not thrilled about being hereBelieves somehow that the tattoo is visible to alland that it perhaps means something.Comparing yourself to others who seem to be somewhere ‘better’ than where you are nowAt 30.You see, that 30, isn’t your 30.Because someone …
