In response to The Daily Post's writing prompt: "Study Abroad." Okay, when I read this prompt I began to list all of the places I remember saying I wanted to go when I was planning for college. Then I remembered all of the programs that I looked at while I was in college. Studying abroad... Continue Reading →
The things I never said…
In response to The Daily Post's writing prompt: "Set It To Rights." So this prompt spoke to me rather quickly. Mostly because I am one to let a lot of things slide. I simply don't feel like it is worth the anxiety, anger, and regret that come with confrontation. Most times the confrontation does nothing to... Continue Reading →
Going in circles at the Crossroads
There is this place in your life that resembles a crossroads. A spot where all of a sudden you are standing in one spot and have roads going in all different directions surrounding you. Generally you have no idea how on earth you got there. Rarely you can remember the road you were on in... Continue Reading →
And take the midget with you
you and the midget must go the greed you attract makes me ill it follows you and you follow me as I attempt to deliver parcels of hope and smiles after life’s storms the clouds part ways the sun peeks out and there I am and there you are weighing me down with your pipe... Continue Reading →
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Hummingbird
annoying little things tapping on my window sweet nectar for them from mom cereal for me from me then their existence the sound of their wings used to torment me and the way that I speak or hold on to words the hum where other kids expected silence and I’d cry hearing it neither from the... Continue Reading →
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Let Me
Let me remove life’s tangles condition you to handle all obstacles massage away your bitter brittleness Let me smooth away the imperfection I cannot see even out your complex complexion Let me erase the scars silence the angry voices allowing in only the reflection of your natural beauty
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Paper instead…
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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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
Inside the Shell 