There’s someone out therein the intensive care unitmoving between two worldsinducing anxietyand a little fatiguewith the uncertainty-we stopped countingdays or weeksbut the mounting hospital bill speaks I reflect on the relationshipShe said her life was perfectand made listeners feelinadequate I think about how shatteredloved ones would feel without her-I take pride in my other-nesslove for … Continue reading On the Verge
The moon was but a chin of goldA night or two ago…-It grows full like an expectant motherpost-partum deflation is what I dreadfor I can’t find what it chose to shed it enriches the starsdeprives the Earththe sky shares lightbut not the source What do they fear?A multitude of godswalking the Earthdestroying mysterywriting new storiescreating … Continue reading Insecure
it's my perspectiveit feels like eternal truthtill it clashes withanother eternal truthrewind the thought clock to findthe terrain has changed - that's life OLN #388
she cracks upto watch him floatingin dark stormswearing starsto meet Bliss beyond the skieshorizons defined OLN at dVerse
Wordsescape neural pathwaysto find their place in the worldbefore I can incarcerate them on a page Wordsdisappear in the nightcaptured by someone in the name ofsynchronicity; employed in another story Wordschoose their owners and stories;Not everyone looks up the Synonyms pageNot every word is found when you need it most Wordsjoin context and expressionsto play … Continue reading Words
disproportionate disappointmentDid I underestimate evilOr overestimate goodwill?Did one go out the doorBefore its antithesis entered?Something is off-kilter for sureI don’t feel like myselfAnd you certainlyare missing from the scene… OLN #383 at dVerse Poets' Pub
watch me float awaynothingness beckonsI can’t recallWhere or when (things past)I dropped the ball Art by Gertrude Abercrombie Write to the prompt hosted on dVerse
walk in your own shoeswhen you grow up, don't fill minecreate a new lifewithin social boundariesoutcasts meet no happiness Open Link Night 373
Aaargh! This excruciating pain gnaws at me againI need to prove I’m not an ovary, not a uterusI’m more than the sum of my body partsAnd that rascal who said, “For whom do you dress or undress?”did not know I would explode under duressin different ways, in diverse streamsto become a goddess, wear talent, and … Continue reading The Chauvinist
two feetleft and rightcompelled to alignto reach a destinationcarrying the same person divergent mindsetscannot dissolve differencesbut find common goals-reasons strong enoughto come togetherreach an agreement,compromise and discuss-if they carry the same missionon weary shoulders if not,they are freeto go their own wayunlike the feetcontrolled bya single mindset OLN #369 at dVerse
