She picks broken shells
Decorates sandcastles with
Beautiful discards
Seashell Sandcastle
Category: Poetry
Separate Peace
April 11, 2017
His and hers boxes
Separate to separate
joined lives made anew
We divide but
Reconnect at peace as “we”:
Forever parents of you
Knowing the burden
On white flag children
We aim to be civil for you
May we remember
that troubles to separate
are to make peace
alliance in your name.
Recovery
April 7, 2017
Uprooted unexpectedly
Frozen
Blizzard of mind
Meeting Nor’easter
That pushed past limits
Chasing snowmen
She lost footing
Losing
Sight
Snow Blind,
she could no longer see.
Reality,
She knew not.
Lost
Blown off course
Paralyzed
Doubled over
Then
found.
Fragmented.
Then
Rebuilt
Reborn
Finding self
Emancipation.
As she walks now,
aware of
where
she has been,
what
she has been,
Done
And seen,
To recognize fact from fiction
She keeps anchor
In mind
In hand
She is shifting vision
clarifying sight
And mind.
Titans
March 16, 2016
We are Titans
Born of and dubbed,
the name.
Meek and small
We may seem
Voices quiet
But we are braves.
Untold stories line
The pages of our minds
tell tales of
the battles waged,
the deeds done,
the monsters wrestled.
We remain stoic,
unknown soldiers,
weighted still; still.
Unnoticed yet,
but standing out;
as titans
our name remains.
Composite
She had forgotten
herself time and time again.
Her visage is new.
Epic
Life raft bobbed,
A buoy
on calm water,
heat of morning sun expanding,
warming salty air
whispering “good morning”
to a solo voyager.
Heavy eyelids slowly open,
waking,
with dreams fading
with the feel
of usual sea mist.
What day this was,
And how many
there had been,
She could not be sure
Instinctively,
she glanced at her compass,
Nested in palm,
To find hand empty,
with no compass
at all.
She of Letters 