Homesick – Free Write Friday
Image prompt courtesy of http://www.kellieelmore.com It’s like you feel homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist Eternally tethered to a time, a sense you can’t put your finger on […]
Category Archives: Poetry
We Are Poets – NEWSFLASH!
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THE LINES BETWEEN
Snap! The tension vibrates from here to there Lines traced as they slip between finger and thumb A tight pinch and a gentle squeeze before the breeze catches the nape […]
I ASK MYSELF
Why do I do this? The habit of self flagellation unbearable yet I find my place here time and again pick… pick… pick… ouch. Why do I do this? Thrown […]
For the women
For the women who carve their own identities from deep roots For the women who take baby steps in women’s shoes For the women who seek solace in their abandonment […]
Caramel & Cohen
The musings of a troubled mind or permeations of another kind Taken to the depths and back by a beauty too big to hold, a heart too tired to sleep […]
Lost in coffee
Finding my place was so much more than searching for an empty table Two chairs when I really wanted there to be only one, solitary me Chatter ahead and lurking […]
Endurance
Over kneaded dough eventually relents under pushy palms Malleable and responsive until it can take ‘no more’ Unfurling from its ball form before flattening out ‘Yes’ is a slow steady […]
Mañana
Click, jump, click, jump, click Watching in awe as we are entertained by the bar man who jumps a rough match across his finger nail as if by magic ‘Again, […]
Flashbacks
Lights on. There were flashbulbs for parties Glistening cubes of silver and plastic pop Instamatic moments that seal in the magic Lights off. There were whispers, always whispers of something […]
