Tag: writing

Daydreamer

Suspended in a Daydream

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Suspended in a Daydream

asleep for so long,i need to feel awake.  distanced from emotions, now i am in constant wake.  drifting–not really here but corporeal,absent yet present, shifting the eddiesof lights and flames; what will set me ablaze?  it could be you–you, whoshies from temptation and prefers the slow lane.  a knight, a soldier,wounded but crawling towards a [...]

Poetry

Submerged

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Submerged

I want to write another poetry book! But that takes a lot of time and energy (and some $$$$$ for proofreading). I have been setting aside some poems for Submerged for a few years–what are your thoughts on the poem below? It's a little morbid at first but it's about being reborn, a new beginning. [...]

night-bloomer

bitter tears

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bitter tears

i’ve been neglecting you, claiming that your needsshould be met, before mine, before there’s,  before his;  i should have explained to you i was overwhelmed,  that i was terrified to askfor help or even proclaim that i’m not fine.were the tears bitter when you wept?  frozen on your cheeks like sand, would it have hurt [...]