Archive for October 2020
ATTITUDE by Di Klepac
NOTHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO NO LOOKING BACK TIME TO KILL UNDER A SPELL TAKE ANOTHER PILL AND STAY PARKED THUMBS UP THUMBS DOWN APPLES TO APPLES NO LIMIT I AM IN IT FULL OF IT CLEAN… NOTHING IS SUDDENLY KNOWN NO ONE IS ALONE TIME IS CELEBRATING WORK IS LIBERATING AUTUMN IS MEDITATING GETTING…
Read MoreODE TO WORDS by Annsofi Hjärtström
Words don’t come easy They sing in that 80’s song Words I love words They help me making sense Of the world Of life But words don’t always come easy Sometimes they cannot Be found at all Sometimes they pour out of me Like a waterfall At times I get the taste of a word…
Read MoreFORGIVE YOURSELF by Venerable Tenzin Saveon
Forgive yourself for not knowing better at the time Forgive yourself for giving away your power Forgive yourself for past behaviours Forgive yourself for survival patterns and traits you picked up while enduring trauma Forgive yourself for being who you needed to be.. ?
Read MoreRUNNING ON EMPTY by Julie Williams
When the silence between the words got longer it was time. My life drained away, my joy dragged kicking and screaming to her someone else. My light dimmed to darkness. 23 years eclipsed. My home became only an empty, loveless house – just a few tired souvenirs she left behind. I was running on empty.…
Read MoreLESBIAN by Kristi Kirby
I’m a lesbian I like girls They send my Heart into thrills. Love like this Is unlike Any other I’ve experienced. The connection The touches The love grows Continuous It is magical The kisses are Like honey Wine on the lips A heavenly escape On a rainy day. I’m a lesbian I like girls My…
Read MoreWOMAN WHO DREAMS AWAKE By Beth Haist
– In Victorian times the table legs have little dresses on them legs with any kind had to be covered. A jaguar falls out of Picasso’s hands (Women come in fractures, In freeze frames) At night. First her side view- And then A sundress thrown in the corner- Her voice finds me, dripping cadence like…
Read MoreHORIZON by Kristi Kirby
Who is singing to me this day but a beautiful blue jay that flew my way. Journeys of graphic expressions like A tattoo on the soul of serene Stillness designed by God. A colorful cloth of peace By the river Of an ancestral spirits Home. A meditative wisdom Is shown With a refreshed Feeling of…
Read MoreDON’T BE A BUNNY RABBIT by Fiona GOODWIN
Don’t be a bunny rabbit A fluffy furry bunny rabbit Hopping in the sunshine Nibbling at the grass Don’t be a bunny rabbit Looking cute and cuddly That won’t be the remedy When the foxes come to call Don’t be a bunny rabbit Always running scared Your Big ears won’t protect you When bullets fill…
Read MoreDOES A FIRE HAVE A LIFE OF ITS OWN? by Laura Merritt
Fire unattended will spend its fuel and weaken. With out sustenance flames dwindle and snuff out. Days of dark and disparaging weather set in. Hungry embers remembering the soul on fire may smolder beneath the ashes. Trying to outlast the famine that threatens it. Preserving the hope that it may again flare into flame. Instead…
Read MoreA MINUTE BEFORE THE FROST by Beth Haist
This morning begins With my sister’s avocado toast- and the last Romas from her soon-to-be mowed over garden- Thick skinned tomato beauties that hung on, while their Softer cherry tomatoe cousins- Already succumbed. Adding mulch for next year. ‘The tomatoes were good this year’ my sister says As her hands manage to find a few…
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