Category: Poetry / Prose
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The Luminous One
Your love is like the sun in my face the wind playing with my curls a smile that infects me with one of my own Let me hide in the secret of us, of love mirrors into you and into me deeper still I found me outside the illusion of the light put flame to…
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Love Letters to the Goddess: Darsana
I am the question you are the mirror that shows me the answer what do you see when offered a look at me?
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BC // Day 3: Love is Worship
Love is the ultimate worship – first, the discovery of by seeing others, the finding of self through others, the exaltation of self as the greatest love and then the actual real work; loving outside of yourself.
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ghar
Kiss me until my lips swell in protest one that we are committed to ignoring show me the subtle magic of transfiguration while your tongue teases mine and we flirt with danger “you taste of honey-wine and sunshine my love. welcome home”
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Day 17
P.M. Did you pray for me the way I prayed for you? Pages filled with intentions, dotted with my tears splotches of ink and corrections You’re my dream made flesh My fertile oasis in the desert You choose me again and again.
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Good Morning
I may not walk beside you at every moment lay with you at night but my days don’t start without you In those morning hours filled with the quiet I wait for you I’ve never been patient but I bridle that sense of flight because I know you’ll see me and when you do our…
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10/8
I’m accustomed to preparing for the end. I know my time in the lives of those around me will be brief. That’s not to say short but, I know it will be clinical, purposeful. Take up room. Be messy. I want you to get comfortable. In me. With me. Beside me.
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Bone – Yrsa Daley-Ward
Emergency Warning I fell out of love with poetry for a while but was happy to rediscover it again in the say two years. Yrsa Daley Ward made me feel like she was writing for me and the women I knew so intimately through nothing but heart ache. I encourage you to explore yourself…
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Sleep
I miss hearing your voice at night It made the demons seem like angels and midnight felt like the first sunrise Instead I wallow in my mistakes Summon my own light But it isn’t you ++++++++++++++++++++ Have I said this before? Remind me Done this before? Offered you a sip of me only for you…
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worship
your name is the only prayer I ever say out loud moaned whispered a benediction two syllables per-fect e-nun-c-i-a-tion a sigh, a release an answer
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fire
We are opposing forces Your fire quenched by my water It makes you cold and still My warmth runs deep It always finds you You are fire When we touch it’s either a storm A flood or A blaze Cosmic law says We are both destruction In love; we are life and death Chaos and…
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After D, Before F
How can I show you the other side of me? I am scared, alone, broken and battered. You wouldn’t recognized what’s inside, the dark void of blackness that threatens to swallow me whole, the wild unkempt madness that lingers, that abides by no known rules. I struggle to maintain the me that you know, what…
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Random Thought #1
There comes a time in your life where you nit-pick at everything hoping that you can find someone of importance that everyone else is missing and sometimes you have to accept…that there is nothing there. That your life in invariably the same as most people’s; you’re not special, you’re not unique. You’re a part of…
Lux 