Passion for writing ignites my soul's momentum
Mother, twice married, conveys reluctance, exaggerates fear – charted history obstacles a given. Father’s outing perpetuates disconnection anxiety replacing communication group wishes null Sister desires crack – living spectacle – addiction barrier to forgotten privilege Husband’s end plan race transmissions – dispossessed of direction – a dreamer Fodder for gossip – elaborate gong show – […]
Mystery holds allure – dark, unkempt unknowns entrap a young woman’s heart She is bright-eyed, trusting hurried engagements, equates fatherhood with responsibility moves in, settles, adopting parental roles, motherly caring washes the dishes – is committed he roams, prowling old haunts unquenched by domesticity, hunts for new beginnings, projects contentment into her passivity disregards her […]
Originally posted on One Woman's Quest:
Slippers, perched at night stand, twitching impatiently, mark the absence of feet, cannot appreciate the meaning of unruffled bed covers. Abandoned, a coffee mug bemoans its curdling contents, complains of thick brown lines contaminating its porcelain shine, has not noted absence of hands. Chair, pushed back from desk,…
(Note: I draw much of my inspiration from dreams, and recently I’ve been challenging myself to write prose as well as poetry. This poem and the piece, The Vortex, are inspired by the same dream.) A bee, caught in a violent draught, collides with woman her body a salty concrete wall of frenzy, she is […]
He caved eventually gave in to her nagging left his wife, his children, mistook her naked willingness for love, a signal of commitment – it was not – she would not package her feelings into a domestic box had no intentions of ever after clothed her vulnerability in sex as treacherous as Eve’s serpent she […]
I picture it: a convention – where like minds congregate, learn from one another, aspire to betterment A conference of healing, dedicated to those newly passing on, like limbo, only educational. Imagine my surprise, then should you be there, Dad – you who’ve never before attended my performances I’ll attempt to stifle the discomfort, suppress […]
Ex-lovers, like criminals line up – a visceral backdrop Another vies to take their place, a critical eye and no-nonsense disposition questions motivations highlights the faults in righteous accusations, bends the arrow of blame reassigning guilt the jilted, now pathetic, craves absolution, starves for appreciation awakens to sickening revelation that sex alone cannot sustain relationship […]
He possessed a certain divinity, a soft-spoken modesty she read as safe harbour, fell for maiden-like innocence, her blessed compliance. Married in the sacred way, carnal mounting accentuating a tailored love – husband and wife exploring, celebrating glorious submission until joy plummeted – impossible to duplicate infatuation in a void – they grasped at objects, […]
I am no Titania, whose mind poisoned by Puck’s subterfuge, finds your asinine nature alluring. You once slaughtered all rational instincts, beheaded my sensibility, paraded my gored heart like a trophy oozing blood Thought to seduce me anew, so confidant in your primal charms, my carnal libido, but no flowery fog deludes me you are […]
Seems we are singularly obsessed – we two, one story – driven to acquire,invested in finding comfort, facing tumultuous conditions, as if property like a fortress will cloak our insecurity. Look at us, disheveled, gambling on life, average citizens, likely to fail – choosing to recreate, question our destiny – the dilemma: having been disgraced […]
