Poetry

Social Censure

It’s funny, because I don’t care anymore…

It had to be this way

There was no other path to take;
This was the only way.

Snapshot

I ask myself, sometimes
How can I remember this moment?
But I don’t know yet;
the memories only flow
one way

Sometimes when my partner comes home And has to let himself in He’ll ask, “Why was the door locked?” And I don’t know what to say. Because I’m woman? Because I was home alone, and that’s what you do; You walk with your keys unsheathed And you never leave your drink, or visit the bathroom,…

The Watcher

I am a raven sat on a streetlight The Watcher As feet trudge by and shadows lengthen into night Time passes; I see all.

The Wild

So many years I toed the line…

Inward

I am the sea In a grain of sand, A life in the blink of an eye, All of the earth in one body, All of the stars in one infinite sky Inward and inward and inward I turn, Upward and upward I struggle to climb And the farther I go, The closer I am…

Solstice Song

The longest nights have come again, another year grown old; Time slows down as if it also thickens with the cold. Summer’s superfluities have warmer lands to roam, So every soul remaining is a soul who’s truly home. Earth’s tucked in deep and still beneath bright, spangled velvet skies, Or shifting curtain-strings of rain, or…

Category: Poetry