The Rules I am so unsure of everything I know inside my skin outside in the air I have no clue pictures look like strangers reflections like ghosts that have haunted me since childhood when, at times, I stood in front of the mirror, eyes unfocused trying to picture who I would resemble when older [...]
Posts Tagged ‘body image’
Taught You Everything You Know
Posted in poetry, tagged body image, coping, creativity, daily life, destiny, dreams, emotion, fear of the future, free verse, future, identity, life, life experience, meaningful living, memory, personality, philosophy, poetry, solitude, the future, work, writing on August 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Brown Sugar Alien
Posted in poetry, tagged aging, body image, childhood, coping, daily life, destiny, dreams, emotion, fear of the future, growing up, identity, life, Love, meaningful living, memory, missed opportunities, old age, philosophy, poetry, telescope, the future, the past, true love, writing on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Far Off I see you in the end of my telescope you’re 46 your eyes are not as clear as they used to be when I turn the dial your face becomes softer the years back off and the spirit of you as a child before I knew you before life dirtied your surface are [...]
Used News
Posted in poetry, tagged being human, body image, coping, daily life, emotion, free verse, identity, imagination, inner eye, inner monologue, life, narcissism, poetry, psyche, solitude, souls, vanity on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Selfish Poem i don’t know you it’s always that stranger with my eyes that look different in the mirror of my head than the one in front of my sink. my fingers are thin on the inside. my feet smaller than lily pads hair that moves exactly where it’s supposed to when I turn [...]
Ant Trap Wisdom Files
Posted in poetry, tagged body image, emotion, free verse, identity, insomnia, life, relationships, solitude on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Antiphony I locked the door on which identity still knocks. you, poseur with my face. tell everybody to call off their dogs reign in their sympathetic head tilts and just let me fly til I’m free. Love, Muse
Black Liquor
Posted in Creative Writing, tagged body image, booze, childhood, cigarettes, decades, emotion, identity, life, life experience, loss of virginity, Love, missed opportunities, modern standards, monologues, Mothers, neighborhood, philosophy, plays, pop culture, relationships, sex, solitude, unrequited love on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rosalie (Copyright Unlistedmuse, 2009) *blows smoke* Youth…what bullshit. It doesn’t matter what age you are now, really. Because you can always buy a younger face. They name the price, I can pay it. *sips from her wine* I was your age once. And I bet I did it better than you. These days it’s about [...]
Home Despot
Posted in poetry, tagged body image, coping, emotion, free verse, hospital, identity, life, life experience, memory, philosophy, poetry, sadness, solitude, writing on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Repair Job take the glue carefully compress tube with thumb and forefinger Squeeze out in a thin line to the surface, realign the shattered beige shards, bits of which are floating around this room take first one place carefully back in its spot press til dry wipe away excess grab box of tissues sit wait [...]
Letter To
Posted in poetry, tagged body image, emotion, free verse, identity, life, Love, philosophy, poetry on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Backwards Voyage I am sometimes confounded by my own need to explain in that strive to protect you from a person somehow slightly, invisbly changed myself I fight backwards with the anxious negative words living on my tongue which battle to launch sometimes I know what lies in your mind love it that you climbed [...]
Chart
Posted in poetry, tagged body image, free verse, hospital, life, poetry, sleep, solitude on July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After Night fingers are my mirror now I have a new landscape slightly different body map new landmarks but same soul Love, Muse
