It’s important to talk about these things. Our inevitable flaws, our deepest heartbreaks, our tightly wound, “What if’s.” It’s important to talk about them rather than just think them. As beautiful and helpful as introspection is, talking is a necessity. Often, it’s our most available form of release. Words enter the world rather than beingContinue reading “some thoughts on capitalism, some thoughts on life”
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My Mind
At times, I feel nervous– nervous that it is stronger than me. * It can make any situation into a problem, labeling itself a “worry wart” (and who would ever want to be a wart?) this is my fear: * It will change my relationships it will tarnish my career it will make all the beautyContinue reading “My Mind”
Truth in You
We are the evolving generation. Our mind, our sole flaw– we must pour consciousness over it like rain on arid land we are meant to grow flowers, not darkness. Follow me into the light, my shadowed friends, and you will see that the truth, the hope, the love, it has been you, all along. Continue reading “Truth in You”
Why be a Feminist?
It’s been on my mind, lately. …….. I watch Zen Buddhism videos every …… day and yet today is the ….. first I have watched a woman. …. The songs on the radio really …. are just “okay,” when one yells … “pussy” I shrink inwards, when “Choice,” … “Respect,” and dare I mention “Love” …. areContinue reading “Why be a Feminist?”
Come Meet Me
Come meet me, and all the other voices that live inside your head. …… I am no more. ….. You will listen and listen and listen but you will create no more. …. You can write about fear You can look at it straight in the face … Your ability to heal is profound. ..Continue reading “Come Meet Me”
She Cares
No– I do not agree that you can care about someone, something “too much.” It’s all about how you act upon that care you can be the camel– carry a load upon your back and make it feel natural, still, but heavy, or you can be the water. Drink only what is necessaryContinue reading “She Cares”
Reality
The truth is: I am You are We are here beings of imperfection near flawless in their beginnings, middle and ends, imitating any last licks of life we can mop up before becoming the next number, name, picture. Our eyes dull our sight but our understanding is a mind– a blackContinue reading “Reality”
Okay
Do you want me to tell you that it all will be okay? Because it will, that’s what my friend used to say my thoughts were bigger than my head so they’d pop into my body instead find the open air and tell each molecule, “Move over!” for that blind perception only we knowContinue reading “Okay”
Peace
A word that unravels so much with time, a world that simply defines itself through the one holding the feather-tipped pen, the charcoal ink dip it in and let it flow like a long river, down every muscle and thread that keeps your mind intertwined, because that’s half your sky: body and a little pinkContinue reading “Peace”
Here
This year, I have a goal to use one of my poems to transition (at least for one night) into spoken word poetry. Here is one piece I am considering. It is one section of a much longer work on loss, uneasiness, and hope: Yet, the thing is. I’ve learned that we can learn all we want,Continue reading “Here”
Reaching Joy 