Poetry

  • Fly Free

    Fly free, sweet bird, from the spiral mind that cages and twirls you. You are beautiful always. How funny that you sometimes forget. Continue reading

  • Love

    Melt me in an ache so sweet, until my body craves the unspoken moments of you. Lift me into an orange sky at river time. Keep me in arms that hold me without bars. Feel forever ending beside me, within… Continue reading

  • The Cupboard Of Me

    In the cupboard of me you will find a heart that is love, a mind that is scattered, a wind that is soft and warm, a day that will never end. In the cupboard of me you will find ingredients… Continue reading

  • Dear Heart

    Dear heart, thank you. For singing to me the beauty of my soul. And having me believe every sweet sound of it. Continue reading

  • Tortured

    Because I am human the softness inside me only grows with every flight of my breaking heart. And I smile, and pretend that you are not the scribbled words etched into the deepest parts of my soul, but you are.… Continue reading

  • She Just Is

    Beautiful little flower. Her petals close upon the darkening sky and she sleeps, opening again to the morning sun. Searing heat tortures her softness. Storms tear at her fragile frame. Yet she keeps waking, opening. Closing, sleeping. She does not… Continue reading

  • Crisp

    Oh, this clean crisp river that flows through the depths of me. Continue reading

  • The Tide

    Just as the tide rises and falls with the song of the moon, so too must all life. How could it be any other way? This I ask myself, knowing the answer within feels sure as the moon herself. Continue reading

  • Sleep

    It’s 4:11am. The waves of a broken life roll through me like an unwelcome surprise upon a drying shore. I think about hot chocolate and the sound of the ocean, because they soothe me. Thank goodness for hot chocolate and… Continue reading

  • Now

    Sunshine hangs on the sweet, subtle branches of this moment. A split second of fire, ice, indifference; whichever lights the way as I wander alone, under the deep blue sky of today. All this time, I’ve shuffled the pathway searching… Continue reading