To be trustworthy
Means choosing intimacy.
And winning my heart.
Primal Masquerade
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: anger, betrayal, change, choices, decisions, denial, fear, haiku, heart, hurt, integrity, intimacy, love, mask, masks, poem, poetry, relationships, self awareness, self esteem, self worth, trauma, trust, truth
Waiting
31 May 2017 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: days, haiku, love, new, poem, poet, poetry, seconds, time, waiting
Missing you is strange.
Like I suddenly recall,
A day has seconds.
Delays and Departures
26 May 2017 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: change, end, haiku, poem, poet, poetry, promis, sorry, time, years
For years we’ve been this.
I would have changed sooner,
If only I could.
Pass The Sweet Dreams
26 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in Conversations worth sharing, Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: domestic violence, dream, haiku, healing, mental health, nightmares, poem, poet, poetry, ptsd, sexual assault, sleep, survivor, time, trauma
Afraid of shadows.
This fear which has beaten time.
We sleep with lights on.
Books, Baths and Outdated Updates
18 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: bath time, checking in, haiku, happiness, happy, life, love, poem, poetry, self, snuggle, soak, update
Life does get busy.
Full of soaking and snuggling.
Things that make life good.
Silencing Scarlett
20 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: authority, classic films, gone with the wind, haiku, medicine, obedience, patriarchy, poem, poet, poetry, scarlett o'hara, silence
Prescribed compliance,
Cure for the questioning tongue.
Take your medicine.
Forbidden Planet (1956)
07 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: dead, death, forbidden planet, Friends, haiku, love, morbid, poem, poet, poetry, robot, scifi, story
This is the tale of
The dead girl and her robot.
I love this story.
Laps in the Thought Pool
27 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: books, haiku, love, poem, poet, poetry, rain, reading, thoughts
Repetitive thoughts
Of books; more books… and longing.
I wish it would rain.
A Merry Masquerade
20 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: broken, fake, haiku, heal, hurt, mask, poem, poet, poetry, survive, wicked
They say I survived
The wicked you left in me.
Ah, masks are mighty.
Dumpster Diving
06 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: broken, cracked, dumpster dive, haiku, poem, poet, poetry, princess, trash
Never quite broken,
But cracked beyond repair.
Secondhand princess.
