What does it feel like when you get good at observing life as it passes? How do you know when your reactions have leveled out? What intensity is an acceptable one and how do we achieve just that but nothing more? I burst into tears at some of the weirdest things over the last twoContinue reading “Poetry Series – Spontaneity at the Ready”
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Poetry Series – Uncomfortable Encounter
My favorite days to write are the ones where everything feels like fair game. I don’t want to apologize for who I am or what I’ve experienced and I certainly don’t want to hold back the words begging to erupt from my mouth. I should be doing laundry, the clothes won’t wash themselves. But theContinue reading “Poetry Series – Uncomfortable Encounter”
Poetry Series – Marriage
Marriage my dad used to tell me I was his princessonce told me he wanted to make me a tiarasomeday, he’d give me away, want me to wear itIt sounds, or feels, silly to admit as an adultbut I miss my dad calling me his princesseven though I told him no –no tiara, no givingContinue reading “Poetry Series – Marriage”
Poetry Series – I See Same
I didn’t want to go to the bar on Friday night but I went. I never voiced that I didn’t want to go because I didn’t want to be at home either. Sometimes I just want to feel a sense of control, to be the one making the call. Sometimes we don’t yet know whyContinue reading “Poetry Series – I See Same”
Poetry Series – Weekend Falling
Life isn’t meant to be easy, only simple. We aren’t meant to make it through unscathed but with stories and lessons. The people that you’re meant to keep around won’t make you feel bad for being who you really* are. If you never have to tell someone that you’re upset, hurt, or “no” in theContinue reading “Poetry Series – Weekend Falling”
Poetry Series – Stories
Everywhere I look, I see the things I asked for. Life feels the most whole it has ever felt even when I’m shattering. Everyone gives me something and I only hope that I’m returning the favor, love the confirmation when I do. I’m trying to remind myself, continually, to not get swept back into theContinue reading “Poetry Series – Stories”
Poetry Series – Feelings
Sometimes I wonder if I’m being too harsh. I have this tendency to pendulum from one extreme to the next as I seek out balance. I went without boundaries for so long that sometimes I set the shock of my electric fence too strong, arrowed innocent bystanders out of fear of them being enemies, buildContinue reading “Poetry Series – Feelings”
Poetry Series – Three Twenty
I’ve been more inconsistent here than I’d like to be but I’m releasing judgment on the fact that I started a new job a week ago, had a chaotic week before that, and am finding the time when I can. I’m releasing myself from writing as an obligation and allowing that writing is what IContinue reading “Poetry Series – Three Twenty”
Poetry Series – Silent Crying
Sometimes it feels like the whole world is crashing down around me. Normally, right now, I’d be running. Pack my car up, have someone help with my son a few extra days for the week, and run – put enough distance between myself and everyone that thinks they know me. My boyfriend doesn’t know it,Continue reading “Poetry Series – Silent Crying”
Poetry Series – Wonderful
The things we see, feed ourselves repetitively, slowly shape our core beliefs of ourselves and the world around us. This is the idea behind the nurture side of the nature vs nurture debate. We become what we are surrounded by. I think debates are so focused on figuring out who is right that they oftenContinue reading “Poetry Series – Wonderful”
