There’s a Spring in my heart A large fertile place, and the language is strength hereMelodies abound both happy and sad I have met three loves in my dreams now, only just In the beginning In the beginning, when everyone has poetry in their eyes […]
All posts tagged: life
We’re All Crazy Here
I don’t have sympathy for those who complainLife is pain highness, or didn’t you get that messageThe first time, or the one after that when you got hurt pretty badly You can count on that for sure my love In another parallel universe stress levels […]
A Million Different Sparks
I have been darkness and lightA dream and a nightmareI have gone to the ends of the world for myself so I knowHow to conquer itHow far will I go? They told me, you will be like lightening across the skySurrounding the world with a […]
The Trickiest Place There Is
I am longing for the sun, and the wind on my faceAnd speed, let’s rideI’ve longed to finish what I’ve startedI’ve dreamt a million dreams until nowThe only one that means anything is you I held a future in my hands but nowThe windstorm blows […]
Empowerment
Hand me the sceptre, the wand, and feel the sting of that thing To grasp, its right there just a little further And I I reach out my arm and I know I can touch it but yet Still it hovers there just of reach […]
Lovely Ideas like Flying Butterflies
We are not just one person, body and flesh and a mind Becoming so accustomed to being alive we don’t remember that it’s miraculousWith all of the little details like sunlight and water and fresh snowAnd the power of the earth on its rotation pulling […]
Being Called
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 […]
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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