Sensible Advice Women Taught Me

Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
? You start dying slowly, If you forget how to empathize If you don’t practice compassion, Don’t cherish friendship, If you forget what gratitude is, ? You start dying slowly when you kill Your love of adventure, your wish for experience Growth, authenticity, wide-eyed vulnerability You start dying slowly when…

Sending my love

Softly blown wishes, like thistledown Carried on wings over boundless ellipses Fluttering and floating never tied down Quietly hushed, as they blow overhead Valiantly hoping, they reach the right town Willing the wind will carry them safe Over the miles and onto your face Changing themselves into emotions and pictures To set you on fire… Continue reading Sending my love

Oh Poetry

Poetry is the strangest beast, with various tools Including different forms and different rules Haiku, Tanka from the East Syllable count, will never cease Stanza,  sonnet, prose or rhyme choose from many new techniques I admit to being addicted to rhyme Straight prose to me feels like a crime I joined a poetry society and… Continue reading Oh Poetry

Machine nightmare.

Crrunkkk, bang, rrrrrer, rooooooom, Sounds assault my ears, vibrates the eardrums, These threatening sounds from my kitchen come, Oh wow a ravening  beast, or gremlin glum, Should I investigate or panic and run? Send the husband seems the best plan, Me two steps behind, the dutiful wife’s stand, The washing machine is groaning like a… Continue reading Machine nightmare.

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