Poetry Series – Aim

I guess we can call it feeling playful, giddy, ecstatic, elated.  Being noticed is my guilty pleasure and it melts me quick when it’s for me. Target struck. Aim She said glowing..And i wonder if by glowing she means illuminatingAs in shining a light onAs in, we’ve started showingThe demon has its hooks in andContinue reading “Poetry Series – Aim”

Poetry Series – War on Sexuality

Some days I write to keep up the habit of writing. I never want to forget again how good it feels just to get things out. Other days, I write because if I don’t the words will explode from me as a shout. I’ve been fighting myself for a while now on the topic ofContinue reading “Poetry Series – War on Sexuality”

Poetry Series – Savoring Sexuality

I went through a lot to get to where I am sexually. I’m not even talking about a lot of sexual activity, but I’d be lying if I said there weren’t phases where that’s how I tackled the “getting through”. What I mean is, there was a point in time when I realized I hadContinue reading “Poetry Series – Savoring Sexuality”

Poetry Series – Insecure

I’m not typically one to talk politics but I think this is far less political and far more pertaining to the war at hand – light and dark. I understand a want to protect a life, or even a potential life, but I don’t understand how people don’t see that the level of care isContinue reading “Poetry Series – Insecure”

Poetry Series – Yogurt

I’ve spent a lot of time getting to know myself better but it’s a whole other obstacle to successfully integrate the parts of myself I got to know into my life, my story, without feeling ashamed of them. Sometimes it’s hard to acknowledge that the approaches I took to cope with life weren’t always theContinue reading “Poetry Series – Yogurt”

Poetry Series – Choke

There is a time and a place. I would never… well, okay, maybe situationally. Never before have I… It seems like the more resistance I give to life and what it has to offer, the more I find myself in situations where I am proving myself wrong. As I pull on a sweatshirt with theContinue reading “Poetry Series – Choke”

Sexuality

Some part of me insists on being ashamed that sex and my sexuality have played such a major role in my life. I wonder if it’s simply the fact that I’m a woman and our sexuality is hushed and muted unless it’s for someone else’s pleasure or perhaps it’s something more specific to me thanContinue reading “Sexuality”