To All The Nest Builders & Home Wreckers

I haven’t stopped staring at it for days. A nearly perfect circle. High walls, muddied-hard, like cement. Concrete-like to the touch. A soft, padded bed, four inches lower than the tower-like fortress build around it. Woven flawlessly with cut grass, unwanted moss, and the long, light hollows that surround our all-year pond. Close to water. Yet, […]

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Rising From the Silence

The stillness of morninng, grounds me in this place, fully feeling this space with every fiber of my being. I reach for black coffee from my cup that says, “Loved and Believed in”. It spills down my throat and into my lungs, like a waterfall saturating the desert inside me. Why do I still dream of […]

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Here I Am

My fingers are rusty. Rusty from the residue thrust on me, from past seasons, uncertainties lingering in the crevasses of a mind that can’t understand… What is coming tomorrow. I have a song, but the news has seemed to have stole it. The layers of media, cold technology and frozen expose’s have hindered me from singing […]

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Why the Enemy HATES Women

Pierced lips and eyelids contort as eyes burn with red blazing at the recent verdict. Roe vs. Wade overturned. Clips of people threatening, demanding, sending letters which include blood from their uterus’, as a message to Supreme Court Justices. Children in their thirties, on hands and knees tantruming like toddlers. Tears saying this is the end […]

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Have You Been Running From the Quiet?

The noise of the world seems to be a refuge for many, for me. Like a single soul, stepping into a crowded room, the rumbling sounds of activity, promising to pacify desperate spirits. And while I find the “hum” blankets me, business distracts me….It doesn’t do anything to magnify my soul. The noisy push and pull […]

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Are We Afraid of the Silence?

Feathered creatures wake me with singing outside my door, as winter bends and bows to the merging sounds of spring. “Croak, croak”, the deep throated voice of large toads announce their return from my pond. And this morning, a train “toots”, from down and beyond the turn below, just barely shooting forth, reminding me that life […]

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