Here comes the great soaring eagle of my lifeI am made of the sky, and I am the air Always wanting something higher My feet hold me here My mind does notI am a great exhaleA light melody and then a dark oneMaybe this version […]
Month: November 2024
We Just Want to Feel Something
When we begin to read a poem, I think we long for that feeling Something that tells us, you are more than you thinkYou are the aching loving pain of life, The tooth that hurts but feels good when pushed a certain wayThe first shining, […]
The Urgency to be Perfect
There is an urgency to be perfect here, and it breaks my heart To become so beautiful and perhaps immune to the harshness of the world Or to feel loved a little more, by the people one meets or the attractive stranger who has noticed […]
Ode To The Women
Ode to women everywhere who stand proudly, battle, and striveFor the ones I owe my freedoms to, and the ones who changed the worldTo the women who did not live life in a seated position, waiting for their names to be calledFor the ones who […]
Strength
I held my closest friend this week at her mother’s funeral Part of a group suffering something so precious, a mother’s loveWe were all vulnerable together, at the chapel, one of God’s many housesThe light streamed through the painted glass windows, a holy presenceWe were […]
Coming Home to Myself
Somewhere in another dimensionMy higher self calls to meThe message comes in from the winds And a song, which carries me to a new place It’s here I close my eyesAnd I am surrounded by all of the letters of the words that know me […]
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