I was told while feeling sad, “tur
My heart ponders metaphors, for jo
It reaches towards Mother Nature
My heart becomes the germinating s
My soul is merely a locked door wa

I have spaces, yearning to be fill
In my heart(depths of colorful hor
In my soul(love’s everlasting ghos
Between my toes(warm oceans of gen
Between my fingers(intertwined wit

Here I am, amidst my rambling—tho
Within my heart no words utter
I cannot explain the depths in my
Only nature consoles, betimes
I look on stars and butterflies

In woods blown by a wind’s unharne
On those higher, mightier planes o
Such is cracked mud drinking reple
Liana climbs the art strewn canopy
Liana touches each tree-being, dra

Tattered and worn, elegant still,
Antique lace, like circled doilies
Waxy, porcelain pearls adorn you a
Above my head I save my each trea
You dance with sky walkers and dre

I swiftly dance to edges where sul
Here, love endures faithfully with
As she breaches air, cosmos keenly
Her mighty Orca’s touch streams u
She, a lighted being, penetrates d

You grow on sandy blankets, like s
You dip toward a sky’s dotted and
You soak beneath heaven’s lampligh
Stars bow to your gaze and a dry,
You are an oasis of pungently swee

“Tis’ ugly an oyster," their wretc
Not like sea horses fair, riding u
Tall and stalwart are they
Not like adorning corals blooming
They amuse man’s eyes with their b

How do I love myself?
I find myself—bleeding heart and r
I sing to my heart, yearning to st
Torn—I long to mend her broken sk
I long to stitch my soul back into

The cocooned creature croons in he
She dreams as her figure transform
No guise can disguise such a visag
Not night
Darkness could never disclose her

Look! Yonder tree,
disillusioned, and
perplexing in her masked beauty
Her, plight mangled by dotty roads
’Tis an expanding snare, growing s

I could smell rain saturating midn
As I sat on my concrete porch, dr
It's melodious tinkering on my roo
As my heart quickened, I could se
I envisioned him looming in the pi

A thunder and lightning's dance st
Life moving swiftly, like drifting
’Tis the luster of a barren wilder
Thus, she dreams of what hides wit
Dashing to corners strewn by unpav

Today was dawn as chirping birds p
Yellow, blue, and corn husked in c
Their’s was a fast and fleeting be
Today was dawn as butterflies skir
Shadows slowly became erased by hi

Remember when our love first start
Together we made perfect sense
We walked the same stride and I w
We have babies now, and they keep
I will love them no matter how old

I want to be as earth’s salt
I want to decorate pages with phan
I want to find gilded words trappe
I want to wield my imagination’s e
I want to reach for depths within,

My daughter says, "mommy write me
I pondered for a while, on writing
But I paused within the realizati
She wanted me to write a glass sli
I pictured her sweet cerulean eyes

My thoughts forever provoke emotio
Sometimes they sting with truth, t
’Tis my fate to live until my ink
Time to create again—to paint, to
I stamp my singing breath to parch

Songs of merriment croon upon a wh
’Tis bells golden, singing an allu
A sacred catalyst and Yule whimsy
A stiring of evergreens’ fulfillme
Sustenance rises on love’s delicat

Hope is a design of expanding, uto
Hope is a genteel medicine of fair
’Tis magick
An emblem of authentic truth in wh
By and by, vibrantly cherished joy

Ophelia,
infamous, painted maiden of histor
Fair,
by her ebony hair and chiseled bro
Delightful,

My children’s laughter rushes insi
Thus leaving each corner of my sou
When their laughter sings to my ea
I bloom, stretching wide my palms

Spring was our birth
A season of airy hycinths and viol
Summer produced a jungle
A juncture, wild and spellbound by
Autumn relinquished a solemn breez

I want to sing like song thrushes

Sometimes I'm a bellowing slump—I
Addicted to tears as I grapple my
I paint myself as an addict to dar
How my heart quickens with my tear
I feel my breath hastening, runnin

Politics, what say ye?
May you play the game fair?
This is only a wanton wish
A fools hope
My hope

Dear, exemplifier—nature’s wonder
Trellises hewn by a Bard’s colloq
Colored in pearls and light’s infi
Enamored by stardust—magic thunder
Forgotten tales’ spun charm, set a

In mystic waves she floats amidst
From enchanting slumbers she arise
She travels from ocean to beach be
She is a rarity, like fallen stars
Her flauntless, spiraling headland

I am a transformative swan of deep
I sing with gentle muses on Apoll
In many a dream, I dance with gra
My inky, starless hues are a vast
In a suffering, aphotic morose, my

Starting anew
With wishes and stars
With new lives and living tabernac
With new shorlines glowing underne
A glimmer

She is a Black Forest hiding bene
Her veins transform into ink-like
'Tis a smoky template of color ris
Admired are perching ravens residi
An obsidian musk enshrouds her dou

I imagine I’m sitting
On the edge of moons
Seeing what is to become
My future
If only we could see what befalls

Tonight, dreams await a slumbering
I pull my blankets tight beneath m
My every thought stirs like windch
As whilful shutters on breathing s
This is when all my dreams stand r

'Tis garden dusk embellishing a wh
She is like red roses, queenly amo
As fairies kiss her petals—she wel
Her thorns distance those who woul
Her red emboldens with Autumn’s p

During my childhood, stories were
He was young when he went to war,
Many missions he flew, dropping bo
A miracle he survived—Distinguish
Hero sung and honored—exemplified

I, so long for Shangri-la tides c
My heart's deepest whims thus desi
Therein I walk roads gold, herald
Jasper, jeweled by jade forests an
Sappheiros, a holy stone wisely ad