With reluctance, cold & slender, to others’ abodes did I surrender, stricken, feasting on the gourd’s sweet’ innards,
musings & scribbles
Quotes Seven
Everyone is a story, waiting to unravel for you.
All of life can be summed up in the words written about a cup of melting ice and the remnants of a drink.
A woman cares most about her extremities, where she is furthest from herself and closest to who she wants to be.
A man worries most about their stature, what is natural or gained/lost and matters least when all alone.
Success is collaborative, though recognition usually falls on a single set of shoulders—not the tallest or strongest, but the most talkative.
We often look past the execution to the role being executed. If we appreciate the execution performed by others, we learn from them, absorbing tidbits of their story to make our own more vibrant. Even the most disgruntled should execute with aplomb, daring another to question their performance and the results brought through determination; a new role awaits us all if we remain professional, regardless of the task.
Your words fill volumes, but my thoughts can only fill a page.
They’re the type to mention they stayed somewhere exotic for 2 weeks, withholding that it took 4 years.
“We,” when one.
We poets are just screaming babes with no other means to emote; few of us learn to talk, and far fewer learn to form coherent sentences.
The hardest part of our lives, waking up, is also the most rewarding.
Fell on my sword
To have silence
But all these mourners
Wake me
I fell in love with an idea you can’t live up to but it’s okay because I’m the same for you
That itch
When time come slowly, I
I just try get out its way;
When time go faster, I
I just try remember’ when…
When time come slowly, I
I just try get out its way;
When time go faster, I
I just try remember’ when…
When that itch come, slowly on,
I just try get words in order, right;
When that itch come, faster now,
I just try get words down at all.
Love is what you need, wheth’ you
Wheth’ you know you need or no’; wheth’ you
Wheth’ you know a need’s not want, but
But you know the difference hard t’see.
when the silence of the mouth
leads to shoutings of a mind,
may you not be lost in thought,
but found by word,
on page or tongue–
those most liberating ways
of untangling ourselves.
“We,” when one.
We held hands outside my parent’s house,
Hoping the night would keep us from the world
And we could chase the sun’s shadow together.
We saw the falling of the queen’s star,
Giving us the unique which can be common
And the
As my body’s blocks fell,
Tumbling
you effortlessly pulled
Them out of air,
My body,
Blocks but rounded,
Tumbles from itself.
And you,
Softest hands & eye,
Sweep me up by palm,
Placing head ‘low heels.
If I did not receive joy from commenting on the rain,
If I did not wait for the words to come,
If I hung my head in defiance of that high order,
If I followed a path set for me and not one I created,
If my logical mind took over the duties of a reverent soul,
I know where I would be:
I would not be here.
I have that
Good vibe
Goin’ through my head,
Runnin’ into walls.
I have that
Good vibe
Pacin’ through my heart,
Fallin’ into scars.
I felt something right
Before you said it’s
So wrong how far
Apart we live when
Being in the same home.
I fought the past to
Say I can grow a
Little more with
Each day, but
Life reminds
Us of who
We are.
You
Fidget in air,
Holding
Still
Only to be lifted,
Twisted
By an unseen rail.
Gliding by seconds,
Falling, flying,
Widening wings
To fit on breeze.
Hah!
You sway on strings unseen,
Posturing to keep me from your home,
Friends, food, or stomping grounds,
Yet I must mow.