"Crowded for Illustration Friday"

we can’t overplay our hand locked in a deep freeze let’s don’t kid ourselves it takes a lot of work to be reduced to tears the risk of becoming a saboteur and giving oneself a chance takes the key to one’s heart and like a raging bull kisses us like emptiness as if received by…

We are all such tender beings. So much fear, hurt, excitement, love, joy, and myriad other feelings run through us on any given day. I was talking to a friend yesterday and expressing how very safe I feel with him. As I talked about the beauty of this, I began to cry. With concern, he…

Plum Blossoms in Sepia I remember looking at the plum tree outside my window last fall at the tangle of moss-covered, leafless branches and marvelling that something that looked so dead would ever bear fruit again. I wrote this haiku to capture the moment: filled with promise plum branches rest in autumn darkness We all…

I wish adults would allow juice to stay on their cheeks the way toddlers do. (I suspect more cheeks would be kissed if we did.) I was kissing my little muse today and smelled the strawberries she had for breakfast that were all over her cheeks. I closed my eyes and let my spirit soar…

Random bits from my magnetic poetry board.  I have “goddess” and “personal ad” words currently up. “Kinky Creative Bisexual Voluptuous Muscular Female Seeks Spiritual Erotic Yoga Sex With Beautiful Sensual Male” “Sacrifice Work And Just Love” “Bow Down To Sex Goddess” “Earth Chick Is Very Nice To Chocolate Body” “Revere Mother Earth” “Make Eternal Love” “I Celebrate…

A Northern Flicker flying away from the watering hole.