Sitting here thinking about what coulda shoulda woulda been and what can’t shan’t and won’t be because what may have been promises are now promises that maybe shouldn’t have been promised words that shouldn’t have been spoken lacking volume and substance behind them they have no weight blowing away in the strong winds of life... Continue Reading →
Fragaria Ananassa
Sweet Summer Edible Heaven Juicy Memories Healthy Gluttony Chocolate Dipped Fantasies Sugar Drizzled Dreams
Daily Affirmations
To be posted on the door of the shell you inhabit in every effort to encourage a bit more than your head to come out: you are smarter than you think talented at levels you can’t understand more beautiful than you can ever seem to see you have healing powers dance dangerously close on the... Continue Reading →
Warm
Down the snowy path we walk, your arms around me. Your heart keeps me warm.
Sometimes
He said he felt like I didn’t love him, Like he was just my friend A friend with the alarm code to my heart & the key to my soul… If only he’d turn it Saw our future through a telescope Growing together, Taking each day as it came Me, ready to abandon the script that had become... Continue Reading →
Words
slicing into me smooth & clean like paper or a ninja’s blade takes a moment to sting rarely bleeds the pain has an echo through the canyons of my soul aftershocks through my mind days, weeks, months later like they just cut through my ear canal your words… Turtleberry 2011
A Perfect Date
high off life or cotton candy or funnel cake with strawberries hair red bleached & baked by chlorine’s date with the sun jean shorts still heavy from rapids promising a shower or a soak knees wobbly after using a rollercoaster to air dry teddy bear bigger than you cause you’ve looked 12 since you were... Continue Reading →
Nobody’s Somebody (excerpt)
“Just think about how far we all have come since last year. Isn’t it amazing?” Drea smiled as she sat back in her chair at our banquet table. The other sorority members who were seated with us were either up and dancing or mingling around the banquet hall. Amazing wasn’t the word I was thinking... Continue Reading →
Love & Music
would I love music more than my boyfriend? yes yes, I would should he ever make me choose between him and the masterpiece that is the X&Y cd I would chuck the deuces plug my head phones into my iPod and walk away while Coldplay attempts to fix me if my love ever decided to... Continue Reading →
Breaking up with the scene (free-write)
I want to break up with the poetry scene It has been one of those relationships that looks cool at first Everyone talking about how great you look together How well you fit together And that lasts long enough for you to get high from it Floating from venue to venue on it Then it... Continue Reading →