Finale

The chamber is dark, but she can sense blood trickling towards the door. Her entire life is being streamed live by some unknown source … and yes, she discovers truths she had missed, or rather chosen to deny. She wants to make accusations, seek explanations or correct certain perspectives, including her own. But the grip … Continue reading Finale

Excavation

I exhume stories buried premature before they could show courage or silent torture Before the world acknowledged the author but they come loaded with perspectives to kill truth - repaint victims on social channels in courts of law till they lose identity originality a society that rewrites history to suit the ruler arrests evolution lessons … Continue reading Excavation

Island

I’m curious to know what the island thinks.  Does it feel complete in itself, or longs for connection? Is it the lack of connectedness that lends to a feeling of being self-sufficient? Ignorance is bliss. What happens when external influence reaches its shore? a desire to move driven by attraction of external appeal I want … Continue reading Island

From shoddiness to understanding

it's so easy to sign up for somethingsomeone's teaching tribal art, andI think I'm creative-understandingart formstakes morethan wielding penschoosing from ink and paint-the artist explains the backgroundin a language I barely understandbut the vibrancy of chosen colorstakes me to nature inspiringher imaginationworlds she lives innot sameas mineYes, I'll take timeto attain perfectiondecipher lines, motifs, colorsto … Continue reading From shoddiness to understanding

Delete files

Time complains as I browse through books of life find pages populated by memories, karma voices and remnants imperceptible imprints disappointment, guilt gnawing away silently at potential Can you make space by deleting files to write the future, give meaning to existence? Time complains… https://dversepoets.com/2022/05/30/quadrille-153-out-of-the-meadows-browse/

Anxiety

The prompt line I chose Not trying to brag or anything, but I can wake up without an alarm clock now simply due to my crippling and overwhelming anxiety, so… My take subconscious thoughts conquer with unseen tentaclesI'm on a leash, can't break away from dark shacklesI change the technique, I change my spectaclesdarkness turns … Continue reading Anxiety

Sorrow

black linescircumventingdreams in color, now flowunevenly down rosy cheeks-Sorrowalters boundaries of visiona dark line moves where hopepainted pictureson life https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2022/05/30/what-do-you-see-136-may-30-2022/

Acknowledgement

intertwined are all that stand in opposition to one another seeking relevance from what is real, but you dislike it's not a shadow you want to see it reduced, insignificant -it obstructs your chosen path yet gives you a direction acknowledge those in the orbits what's not yours it shapes your destiny, and you return … Continue reading Acknowledgement

Alone

Alone is all-in-one when I come together gather different pieces to make a whole to make sense of it I dissect dreams to see what one part of my psyche says to another and it’s so engrossing… Alone is what all others don’t like it leaves them out excludes them from control rooms Separates their … Continue reading Alone

Emotional Intelligence

“Do you remember how crazy he was about her, just a couple of years ago …. I’m taken aback by the venom he spews about her now, as if all the good in her evaporated in a storm?” “There you are, Julie …. We are unaware of the storms that pass through the mind of … Continue reading Emotional Intelligence