Category Archives: Poetry
Final Accounting: 2008
Today is the last day of this year, 2008. I have spent some time, looking back on the days, weeks, and months that are passing into my personal history, perhaps better labeled herstory. This has been an incredible year, … Continue reading
Posted in American Idol, awakenings, change, David Cook, discipline, Dreams, experience, Final Accounting, Friends, Life, perspective, Poetry, teach, Time, writing
Tagged A Woman of Color, accounting, activities, American Idol, awakenings, blogging, challenges, change, counseling, David Cook, deeper meaning, diabetes, different, disciplines, Dreams, friendships, fulfillment, gratitude, herstory, inner couch potato, last day of year, new and old, objective voice, on the page, overstuffed rocking chair, pleasure, Poetry, prose, regimens, risks, satisfaction, soul's music, success, support and encouragement
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Wild Thing III
A Definition and an Example: First things first. What exactly do I mean by the term Wild Thing? I do not mean some sort of slavering monster bent on total annihilation of you, me, or anyone else. I am … Continue reading
Posted in conformity, Creativity, Definitions, expression, Family, Growth, Inner Voices, Life, Poetry, Psycho Within, socialization process, Walt Whitman, wild thing
Tagged child, defintion, desire to create, example, inner howl, nipping at heels, parent, personal, Poetry, poets, Psycho Within, silent learning, Song of Myself, to express, urge, Walt Whitman, wild thing
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One of Those Days
There are those days, when I don’t wish to write prose. When as soon as I try to compose stately sentences that march cleanly across the page and down between the margins, the pen starts dancing to its own music, … Continue reading
Posted in Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Poetry, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged control, focused concentration, jive, music, peace of mind, poem, silence silenced, unbound knowledge
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Crossing Over
Have been doing a lot of surfing on the Net. Exploring what other people are writing and what they are writing about. And, of course, getting sidetracked into my own personal areas of interest. One of those, perhaps the most … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Memory, Myths, Poetry, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged altered state, blogs, breaking rules, clarity, communication, cross over, falsehood, myth, Not My Usual Whatever, overwhelming the senses, poetry and prose, reality, rules, sexual deviants, silence, truth, writing
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Different Faces
Yesterday, while browsing through several other WordPress blogs, I found a comment (Spasmically Perfect), in which one writer told another that her muse looked like Danny DeVito. I really liked the idea of my muse wearing a face I could … Continue reading
Posted in Archetype, Creativity, Inner Voices, Journal Writing, Mythology, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized, Writer's Block
Tagged Amazon, change, creative energy, deadlines, different faces, evolution, Medusa, Muse, nightmare, poem, Writer's Block
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That Slippery Slope
Memory can be seductive, perverted little bugger. For most part, nothing more than simple tree hugger, ’til something grabs its attention: bit of scent wafting through wood paneled rooms, music played just out of tune, or flash of scant sequined … Continue reading
Posted in Journal Writing, Memory, movement, music, Poetry, Selective, Time, Uncategorized
Tagged alone, another era, attention, body, fascination, held captive, Memory, movement, moves, music, Poetry, presnt moment, remembers, slippery slope, thrice braided cord
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