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She belongs to the Sea
How will you ever hold this broken heart? When, like a siren, she only belongs to the sea? Prove you deserve this broken heart. For she...
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Already Gone
I won’t cry for you. I am not so sad. Anticipating loss When I already lost you.. Let me count the ways. I was your sunshine, Your only...
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Patience
I feel it, at the end of the line Straining, running with the reel Tugging against the flow, Sunlight sparkling, breaking the surface....
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My White Swan Woman
She showed up in my silence Not beautiful or serene. But forceful and ferocious In my face, Huge and imposing. Her headdress of feathers...
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I am All Mine
I am not your “Go To” For the bored, the lonely, the empty or the ‘let’s see” I am not your safety net, Your sure thing, Your easy...
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Waiting for Myself.
I will wait for you. Until you show up on thunderous hooves With the sound of the wind whispering through me The surface of the water...
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Bowing Out Gracefully - A Poem
The sword we pick up gently is always double edged. Should you rip them in two and run? Or face them and your traumas Sword pointed at...
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Embracing Righteous Anger
This for a time, a reason or a season. Letting my long-held anger bubble up, and spill over you. A wound and a bandage wrapped years...
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No Redemption in You
Looking at life differently now. I don’t seek salvation in another. Because what can someone else redeem for me? The affairs we had? The...
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The Lost Prince - A Poem
At the end of this fairytale of her thought labyrinth. In the corner of her mind’s eye maze, Through this particular cavernous dungeon,...
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Alone Like the Moon - A Poem
Today I am alone, but I am not lonely I remember that a single light bulb can illuminate a room And the rhythm from a solitary drum can...
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When do I find Trust?
Can you Trust this? Trust comes as a menace, crawling across the ground A naked shadowed figure of anger Fingers gripping the dirt,...
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Icarus flew first - A Poem
What if being slammed against the wall Stops me building it higher and stronger. What if falling without a safety net Makes me learn how...
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Breathing you out...A Poem
Should I stand at the edge of a tumultuous ocean Letting the wind blow through me. Open arms and hoping Or should I....? Breathe you out....
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Past Lives - A Poem
I cannot run fast enough I can feel my feet thundering on the hard earth My legs are moving, so fast, so fast Beads of sweat peel down my...
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Bad Company - A Poem.
I can be your Bad Company. Your healing hands, Your breath of fresh air, Your release from the lonely. As you wish. Let's play this game....
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Did anyone listen to you? - A Poem for a friend.
Would anyone know you exist if you did not reflect off someone else? The moon cannot shine alone. It's a reflection of what you can't...
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Catch my Fire - A Poem
I'm complicated, just like you. There must be someone who knows where I am coming from, What I've left behind, and yet where I could be....
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A Hopeful Romantic - A Poem
I know you don't need me, But I've got your back anyway. I know you can feed yourself, But here's something I cooked for you. I know you...
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Cold - A Poem
It's so very cold over here behind these electronic walls. Often far less heat behind loving boundaries that I set. That familiar chill...