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Friday, May 20, 2016

I'm not here to bite

I'm not here to bite
I just want to write

The Muse is strong in you

I pour out Myself
Bottom drawer and top shelf

For all the world to see

It's scary as hell
But you tell me Oh Well

Do it anyway

You challenge and push and temper me
Unveiling my talent so I can see

The Way to find my Voice
I've never had a choice

Before.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

You.

You.

Chewed me up and spit me out
My exoskeleton’s on the floor

Amongst the blood and mess I see
Something that looks more like me

Harshest muse I’ve ever known.

What is This Place

What is This Place?

I cannot tell just where I am
I’ve lost my mind somewhere back there.

Turn left three times on bended knee
Walk backwards thrice on tossed debris

Skirt through valley and dance in town
Wearing only your best night gown

Now stop the traffic in a jam
Open wide and holler WHERE???

That is how you’ll find me.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Do You Like to Dance?

Do You Like to Dance?

I love to feel the music
Moving in my body like it moves my soul
You’ve brought beauty back in my life
Words, Songs, Music…..all the things I’d forgotten

How can I help but dance?

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Decided

Decided

I will not be defined by my sorrow
I will not be held hostage by pain


What’s YOUR superpower?

A Gardener's Philosophy

Dedicated to the one who knows


A Gardener’s Philosophy

Sometimes the Ivy hooks up with the thorns
Ensuring its safety from those who might scorn

“Discard those thorns and embrace your beauty!”
Commanded Gardener sternly; he felt ‘twas his duty.

The Gardener showed Ivy a better way
Freeing her gifts, so she could stay.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Vociferous Verbocity

I had to share this - came across it tonight when I was looking for something else.  I had forgotten all about it - wrote it in 2012 to cheer up a friend who was sad that I was leaving the office where we worked together.  It's a fun, lighthearted, poem of silliness that's designed to put a smile on your face.

Vociferous Verbocity

by Karen Reese

Alliterative animals amusingly anecdote.
The bovine bounces by breakfast.
The chicken clucks like clockwork.
The dog destroys DST.
The elk envelopes existentialism.
The ferret farts fallaciously.
The goat gawks gregariously.
The hippo hissingly hornswoggles hoodwinkers.
Ignominious ibis involuntarily illuminate.
Jetsetting jackalopes journey judiciously.
Kickboxing kangaroos kip kidnappers.
Luxuriating lemurs lounge lasciviously.
Masticating moose maul mammalians.
Nonsensical noxious nightcrawlers nibble newts nefariously.
Obstreperous orangutans originate obsidian.
Pontificating platypus practice propriety.
Questioning quail quintessentially quit.
Ridiculous rhinoceros repeatedly replicate.
Seafaring seahorses surreptitiously surrender.
Titian tinted tarantulas trepidatiously traverse.
Undulating unagi unwittingly unmitigated.
Vociferous vultures victimized vehemently.
Wandering wallaby waddle on Walkabout.
Xanthic xanthareel xenophobically Xerox.
Yankeefied yeti yearn yearly yet yodel.

Zoo-stricken zebra zap zany zookeepers.