Your Obstacle Just do it climb the mountain put your shoe on, one pantsleg at a time. You know there is fog, but that you will blow through it. Don’t fear the heights, you already learned how to ignore if those trees give you trouble turn away from their bark, build a fire with their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘daily life’
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 [...]
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
In a Boat
Posted in poetry, tagged career, career choice, career choices, childhood, coping, creativity, daily life, emotion, free verse, growing up, identity, kitchen sink, life, life experience, marbles, meaningful living, memory, missed opportunities, outdoors, philosophy, poetry, solitude, spiralbound notebooks, the future, work on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Everlasting Green something in me trembles as I stand over the precipice of the sink and look into the drain at pencils, marbles of this millenia, spirals of notebook bounds with nostalgia, bliss of young 18 year old confused me when I go to where the trees beckon and file this year I fear I [...]
Steady Opener
Posted in poetry, tagged adults, autism, autism spectrum disorder, autistic child, autistic children, children, comprehension, daily life, discrimination, free verse, helping, isolation, learning, open mindedness, poetry, solitude, understanding, world, writing on June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fix you aren’t my children I guide, I give back mend the wings cover the air hold you out so you can slip between the cracks of cruelty, ignorance in the faces of people who don’t know where their world stops and yours begins Love, Muse
Emerald Squad
Posted in poetry, tagged change, choices, coping, coping with change, daily life, destiny, emotion, free verse, identity, life, life choices, life decisions, life experience, living, memory, missed opportunities, negitive change, optimism, philosophy, positive change, the future, trauma on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Any Jonas Day I could use poison in a green vial ropes around my neck trees, tall enough cars fast enough but none of that would ever erase what already did happen in this time why end the Now when you can’t vanish the Then? A.N: The original date on this poem is March 23, [...]
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 [...]
