Annual Battle last year you told me we should make a shield a shelter for their little heads I said, heaven can be the barber you said it was too soon but the hail always comes. Love, Muse
Posts Tagged ‘Mothers’
Flower Pop
Posted in poetry, tagged flowers, gardens, hail, mother, Mothers, nature, outdoors, peonies, spring, summer, thunderstorms, Wildlife on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Unto Her
Posted in poetry, tagged childhood, emotion, free verse, identity, life, memory, Mothers, poetry, writing on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Grace Paley I read her words often, then I find that the corners of my eyes are stuck with sadness, too much emotion dislodged from the queued, perpetual backlog always waiting on the bridge between my ears and throat first line of that poem for her about her to her mother always turns the tap [...]
