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 ‘growing up’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One Bunny
Posted in poetry, tagged childhood, children, church, color, colour, creativity, dreams, easter, easter bunny, easter preparations, fake flowers, flowers, growing up, jesus, meaningful living, memory, plastic, plastic cups, poetry, spring, writing on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chocolate Dixie they were decorating in the dark by the church an Easter surprise for children to come upon and be fooled into spring with eggs tucked near their wire stems yellow cups plates red and blue snipped and glued into a sturdy garden Bouquets of cheer beckoning us to come on in to say [...]
Warning Glory
Posted in poetry, tagged aging, childhood, childhood activities, childhood memories, coffee, coping, daily life, destiny, dreams, emotion, expectations, fear of the future, growing up, identity, life, life experience, meaningful living, memory, missed opportunities, mornings, philosophy, poetry, the future, the past on March 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Golden she didn’t know this when she got up twenty years ago and tied her shoes reached up to the sink got water in her eye and missed the brush from the coffee downstairs to eggs on her plate small people really don’t know what ever awaits. Love, Muse
To Life
Posted in poetry, tagged aging parents, brother, childhood, emotion, fathers, free verse, growing up, identity, life, life experience, Love, missed opportunities, Mothers, poetry, siblings, sister, the future on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Clairvoyant two plus the decade and you’ve got my eyes. across the table I am sharing blood with the same stranger who shared the womb almost all years apart maybe I broke the rules because I was the second one but now the same age in my mind dwelling tandem in the realm of The [...]
