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The Bleeding of Me
Imagine that you are thrown into a pool without knowing how to swim. The pool is full of obstacles that you must get through just to make it to the shallow end where you can finally breathe. This is how … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, This Is Me
Tagged #life, anger, caregiver, depression, seasonaldepression
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An Ode To The Greats
take my handand fly away with meto faraway lands where water flowsof peace and ecstasy where we are free to be ourselvesjust simply you and mewe can climb the highest mountainsand swim the vastest sea let’s go camping in Frost’s … Continue reading
Posted in Favorites, Personal, Poetry
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Kiss The Girl
She watched as he ran the sandpaper following along the grain of the wood. Kevin’s strong hand glided across the oak beneath it, the wood softening with each stroke. She couldn’t help but notice the muscles in his biceps bulging, … Continue reading
Posted in Ficton, Personal
Tagged #almostfirstkiss, #fiction, #romance, #shortstory, #yearining, fallinginlove
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My New Year’s Wish
I awoke this morning like I do every morning, with sleep in my eyes and a dream in my heart, needing coffee to come alive. I found myself staring out the window at the white, velvet, snow blanketing the ground … Continue reading
I Wish I Could Write The Way I Think
I wish I could write the way I think – Obsessively Incandescently With maddening desire and the same intense passion that flows through these veins I would make love to these pages with such intensity, the moon would tear open … Continue reading
On The Eve Of Turning 36
I have been thinking of you – the seed I never sowed the bun I never baked. I feel it – the eleventh month of my body and the calendar. Tomorrow will be my birthday. My spring is gone and … Continue reading
Posted in Favorites, Personal, Poetry, This Is Me
Tagged #thisisme, birthday, infertility, Poetry, prose
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Seasons
Another landslide of life has brought us down standing in icy streams holding fast to unsteady ground Time waits for no one seasons change in the blink of an eye the reflection shows a little girl yet it is silver … Continue reading
Checkmate!
I am just a pawn with paths laid out before me moving pace by pace- *** Dark & light intertwined before me, behind me, within me- *** Seduced by freedom from the mundane my soul seeks adventure- *** Stuck on … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Poetry
Tagged #dreams, fear, introspection, Poetry, selfcare, selflove
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Wordless Wednesday 70 – Photo A Day, Weeks 38 & 39
Week 38 Day 260 “Do you want the moon, Mary?” “I’ll wrap a lasso around it and pull it down for ya.” Day 261 Some simply see a weed, others see the beauty. Queen Anne’s Lace ❤ Day 262 “I … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Photography, Themes
Tagged #bucketlist, photoaday, photochallenge, Photography, thisis35, wordlesswednesday, yearinpictures
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