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Reaching for the Light

From birth, reach for the light....
1,765410Dec 2009Mar 2021May 5

Connected

Connected to pain. Connected to loss. Connected to sadness. Connected to words that bind. Disconnected from you....
1,408360Feb 2011Aug 2011May 5

Yogurt - Lite

with a nod to "Multiple meanings" by boyshchrm6...
1,402230Jul 2011Aug 2012Apr 28

Bah·rain

For poets, Frenchsilk, moonlight31, and all others who add their salt to the mix....
1,324220Feb 2011Mar 2012May 2

Tertiary Colors

Have you ever stopped to notice when mixing colors what miracles are performed? How it is possible for red and green to produce brown while red...
1,318110Aug 2010Aug 2010Apr 25

Chocolate Dark

in response to soulgoddess' challenge edits performed...
1,210150Jul 2013Dec 2013May 3

The Marmite Effect

Wrote this back in March when I read about the Marmite shortage. So, has it made it back onto the shelves?...
1,165180Jul 2012Sep 2012May 5

Total Eclipse

Red-moon alignment’s ruby rays trickle, tracing winter’s illusion....
1,137200Jun 2011Jun 2011May 4

Systemic

My very first sonnet......
1,129190Jul 2011Aug 2011May 5

Black Man Walking

Being female, not black how can I possibly know what it’s like to walk in dark male skin, where in a white-dominated society being young and l...
1,124110Mar 2012Jul 2012Apr 28

Hand Out

Ups and downs of loving we all do surely know but friendships shared have, too, a gentle ebb and flow When you are down, above with spirits h...
1,123290May 2011Aug 20114 hrs ago

Tendons & Ligaments

Soft-tissue damage...much like damage to the broken heart....
1,103240Jun 2011Aug 2011May 4

Lighting the Way

I love this season…a cause to ponder meaning within creation, including what we create and celebrate. While recognizing the illuminary icons that lig...
1,063220Dec 2009Dec 202017 hrs ago

Breaking Free

Breaking free should be easy for that is where I want and where I need to be. Sometimes, however, the pieces cut like glass and I must wait for t...
1,054270Aug 2010Sep 201424 hrs ago

It’s Not for Me

to decide how things must be or tell you what is best for you, nor clothes of a bystander wear, watching silently while you are threatened or kille...
1,033230Mar 2011Mar 2011May 5

A Glimpse, A Glimmer

In response to the 40-word-poem challenge....
1,016110Nov 2013Nov 2013May 3

One Voice

Giving thanks and wishing all a Happy Thanks-giving Day!...
1,013300Nov 2012Jan 2013Apr 12

Corner Poem

Inspired by Macduff5's "No Birds Sing"...
982180Jun 2013Jul 2013May 3

Taking Time

Always about the poetry of life....
980150Apr 2013May 2013May 6

Just Because

in response to Macduff5's challenge...
966190Sep 2012Jan 2013Apr 27

Mending

Carved utilitarian shape, varnished with age, worn, brown wooden spool once a tree, living, now reduced to only inches - three. Red fibers wrapped...
962210Mar 2010Aug 2011May 4

Ocean Views

Waves come in, bringing more sand Then take it right back out again Building up here, breaking down there Maintaining the balance of nature’s desig...
947260Oct 2010Oct 201018 hrs ago

Week before Christmas

Inspired by "Twas the Night before Christmas" generally attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, although the claim has also been made that it was written...
92880Dec 2012Dec 2012Apr 26

incorrigible

Incorrigible, ‘tis said am I! Perhaps, but I am wondering which adjective definition to apply to determine what is my condition. beyond correct...
925130Mar 2011Aug 2011May 4

Tata

imibongo --> poetry Ubuntu --> a South African philosophy Umkhonto we Sizwe --> Spear of the Nation...
920120Jun 2013Jul 2013May 3

New Balance

Started in 1969, "Project Bread's Walk for Hunger is the oldest continual pledge walk in the United States and the largest annual one-day fundraiser t...
913100Apr 2011Apr 2011May 3

Tightly Strung

A natural at this music business, I follow note-clarity programmed into me by years of aging wood and strings stretched to the correct level of tau...
913170Jun 2010Jul 2010May 5

New Year's Message

'Tis not verse but rather heartfelt emotion sent from me to you....
893200Dec 2011Jan 2012May 3

"Damaged Mind...Broken Soul"

written last night with a profound sense of grief and sympathy for the families directly impacted by this incomprehensible act of violence (two addit...
893100Dec 2012Dec 2012Apr 24

Shadow Sound

in response to shadow1950's 10-word challenge...
89280May 2013May 2013May 3

The Myth about Seeds

Did God create badness just to enjoy struggles when would Potters be create did He Muggles bad seeds planted fighting to be good each going a...
891170May 2010May 2010May 3

Anew

With its promise of hope and renewal may this season be a blessing to all!...
876150Apr 2011Apr 2011May 2

The Bittersweet Pill

layoffs at work survived, for now...
875200Dec 2010Dec 2010May 4

Poppies for Peace

The italicized words are from John McCrae's "In Flanders Field" posted by hedistuff....
874130Nov 2012Jan 2013Apr 23

Attained

Losses sad attain voice replaced by ping unknown for what gain phones no longer ring love expectation, lofty goal friendship’s a far better sta...
872140Sep 2012Oct 2012Apr 26

The Game

A metaphor of life's stages of development in this new virtual-reality era....
870190Nov 2009Nov 2014Apr 19

Centre of Memory

on International Nelson Mandela Day in honour and celebration of Madiba's 95th birthday and his and Graca Machel's...
866170Jul 2013Oct 2013May 3

Flawless Peach

The flawless peach attracts us to consume so that which once sustained is sacrificed gone but for the layer peeled away left to decay and...
864170Jul 2010Jul 2010May 5

Hurled Words

Your words like stormy pebbles hurled at me cross my other cheek pierce my side ‘til no longer a doubting Thomas am I. Darts fly. Bleed...
863160Nov 2010Nov 201014 hrs ago

Snap Back

written as thank you for b'day gifts (including pkg of silicone bands)...
851130Aug 2012Aug 2012Apr 28

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