Grant Me as I grow old you will hold me still, in high regard, in your arms. when the fringe of grey is on my eyes and my lips require your aid canes of steel and a hopeful gaze you will keep me in your reaches. if I falter in the pot and am stuck [...]
Posts Tagged ‘coping’
Raging Globe
Posted in poetry, tagged aging, coping, elderly, emotion, end of life, fear of the future, free verse, growing old, longterm care, Love, nursing homes, poems, potry, relationships, soulmates, souls, true love on September 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hark
Posted in poetry, tagged change, changes, coming of age, concern, conclusions, coping, coping with change, end, ending, endings, ends, facing fears, fear, fear of the future, free verse, growing up, internship, internships, life, lifestyle, lonliness, moving on, poetry, post grad, writing on September 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Exit Fragile now, I am that bee, my hive went away and now I’m crushed They took my wings, educated then made me ready then they took off their spectacles chasing me into the darkness of that misty field with rulers. they took the clovers too and now I’m all outta luck. Love, Muse
Scarlet Butter
Posted in poetry, tagged conclusions, coping, emotion, emotions, employment, endings, facing fears, fear, fear of the future, free verse, future, growing up, internship, internships, job, jobless, joining the work force, life, living, meaningful living, new beginnings, poetry, the future, transitions, unemployment, work, writing on August 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Jurisdiction I want to talk about endings those awkward things everyone hopes will never come. we like to think that everything we do everyone is immortal that there is no end to our shopping list, our hours in the night that the week is infinite so when we come to the door to the stop [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Pomegranite Moon
Posted in poetry, tagged being in love, cities, city, cohabitation, coping, daily life, emotion, fear of the future, free verse, identity, life experience, living together, meaningful living, relationships, remodeling, the future on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hearth there’s a shift in my clock internally externally yours now that isn’t an analogy for a stroller roller derby time I just never know where I am in the year I see it on piano keys Tuesday is D the days rolling in a circle of 5ths and you count the months rent by rent [...]
Pong
Posted in poetry, tagged coping, emotion, free verse, life, meaningful living, philosophy, poems, poetry, religion on August 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not a Religion there are many crosses in my life in the street where you stop your car up in the air, over the trees in the bottom of my cup, in the dregs spoken from the book or left on his lips yours is the one you left in the window mine is the [...]
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 [...]
Hard Rock Hairspray
Posted in poetry, tagged being in love, birthday, birthdays, break ups, coping, daily life, fiction, free verse, identity, life, life experience, Love, meaningful living, memory, missed opportunities, non fiction, poetry, relationships, shirts, souls on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine Them you know that shirt I gave you for your birthday last year when you left, after your smell had gone I washed the windows with the ripped bits of festive love that you left behind from jcrew. our relationship cleaned better than windex. Love, Muse A.N.: to be honest, the idea for this [...]
Lost Leaves
Posted in poetry, tagged art, caregiving, childhood, children, compassion, comprehension, coping, daily life, disabilities, emotion, free verse, helping, helping professions, hospital, identity, life, life experience, nonverbal, poetry, understanding on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Honest Badge oh you fragile thing you beautiful eyes with words trapped inside when I move your hand in this brush were the colours right for the sea was this clay bowl the creation you wished it to be I will never know because I can not see your Mind Love, Muse
