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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘missed opportunities’
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
New Cheese
Posted in poetry, tagged coping, creativity, daily life, einstein, emotion, florence nightingale, free verse, health care, helpers, helping professions, hospital, identity, interning, interns, internship, life, life experience, meaningful living, missed opportunities, mother theresa, poetry, strangers, the future, work, writing on April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Caring Profession no more words I quit no longer saying the right thing the stranger who says excuse me fix my child that’s it. you do it you solve their problems. file it all lock it up to be checked out by someone else’s savior because I’m done with being your solve-the-trick einstein florence [...]
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
Door Knob Lockstop
Posted in poetry, tagged boats, books, creativity, darwin, destiny, dreams, evolution, exploration, free verse, knowledge, life, life experience, missed opportunities, natural history, nature, poetry, science, ships, solitude, the future, the search for knowledge, truth, voyages, wisdom on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To All You Explorers the bitter in me lost a fight to be the best pleased all you scholars wrote the book on capturing the world ended up with one less ship had to call it a day before evolution caught up with us. Love, Muse
Inky Point
Posted in poetry, tagged autobiography, books, bugs, butterfly, coping, creativity, emotion, free verse, identity, life, meaningful living, missed opportunities, nature, philosophy, poetry, script, song, souls, Wildlife, words, writing on December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Memoir and I said there is a butterfly inside me holding on to the edges of my veins curled and furled in the hope that the right words will water and grow it that flutterbug into a velvet book shivering script into prose trembling to form a mountain Then. sprouting in the mouth of the [...]
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 [...]
