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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Turtleberry Appreciation Post – Appreciate Your Awesomeness
Every now and again you need to pat yourself on the back and tell yourself that you are beautiful. Every now and again you need to remind yourself how much you love yourself. This post is that for me... at least for today. I like to think that I was a cute kid! I have... 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 →
The trouble with the world today…
Okay, so the trouble with the world today is that the majority of people have become intolerant of differences. I sit and look at the current events and problems of the world and it all seems to stem back to being intolerant of what makes us different from other people. Not everyone is meant to... Continue Reading →
Keep your hands to yourself!
I spent a lot of time working with kids in various aspects of my life. That means I have spent a lot of time telling kids to keep their hands to themselves. I recall once having a conversation with a little girl that troubled me. She was running around hitting on a little boy who... Continue Reading →
GOD bless the exes!
Okay so I know this may sound weird but I am really thankful for my past loves.No seriously. (Stop laughing and/or giving me the side eye.)I was tweeting yesterday about understanding your personal love language. Your love language (by my definition) is the way you show love. It can also be the way you best... Continue Reading →
Simply needed to write a few things out
So, I have found the need to write myself out of this depressed state that I am in. Of course you wonder… “Why so depressed? Don’t you realize how blessed you are compared to others?” Blah Blah Blah Yes, I realized that I am an extremely blessed woman. I have a million things to be... Continue Reading →
Inside the Shell 