Empty bed for two
Empty spot for a kitten
But no one comes home.
Lonely Heart’s Home
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: choices, cold, denial, disappointment, empty, family, fear, grief, grieving, haiku, heart, home, hurt, loss, love, memories, missing, Nothing, numb, pain, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, remember, silence
Holy Matrimony
12 May 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: abuse, anger, betrayal, decisions, denial, disappointment, end, fake, fear, haiku, holy, hurt, husband, integrity, letting go, lies, loss, love, man, marriage, pain, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, self esteem, self worth, silence, trauma, trust, truth, vows, wife
Your need for power
Trumps the vows you spoke to me.
I stand defeated.
Wall of Stone
17 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: abuse, anger, betrayal, denial, disappointment, endings, fear, grief, haiku, heart, hurt, pain, poem, poet, poetry, silence, waiting
Beaten by silence,
But behind that wall lives rage.
Which one wounds me most?
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.
Last Song
02 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: heal, hurt, judgement, loss, love, poem, poet, poetry, silence, song
Dissonant in rapport,
Your instrument of judgment
And now this song ends.
Gone Fishing
24 Mar 2016 2 Comments
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: change, gone fishing, healing, loss, love, poem, poet, poetry, self, silence, song, sonnet, yearning
In this year to come,
The year of my silence,
I will be filled with wordless songs
And unspoken sonnets.
In the year of my silence,
Things broken will burn
And out of death and ash will things be born
In the year of my silence,
Devotion will cease to be offered to unavailable lips
And only love will learn to spill from these neglected veins.
In the year of my silence.
.Silence.
