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Archives — 2011
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2011 — the good, the bad, the active and the
Welcome, Winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.
DATE: 2011 Dec 22
Red is passion-lit, pink is lipsensual, orange is flowerageous, yellow is suntastic, green is lifebursting, blue is skyful, purple is berrydancing, gray is cloudrainy.
TITLE: Rainbow'ish
DATE: 2011 Jul 17
imagine how many glorious winters and springs
the stars from their celestial perches have seen—
DATE: 2011 Jan 3
NOTES: revised
For happy health, fuel yourself with dreams and greens.
TITLE: Dreams & greens
DATE: 2011 Jul 3
I drifted into a summer-nap
under the hot shade of July
serenaded by a cicadae lullaby
to drowsy-warm dreams
of distant thunder...
TITLE: Summer-nap
DATE: 2011 Jul 3
Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.
DATE: 2011 Jul 3
If guilt or regret is an essential part of your grief, you will never stop grieving.
DATE: 2011 Jul 31
Clouds blaze brilliant colors in a sky on fire.
DATE: 2011 Jan 3
Moon —
the nightlight
for our souls
TITLE: Faith well lit
DATE: 2011 Jan 19
Day holds the sky with big blue arms
until the sun sends her off into evening
with a grateful blaze of vibrant colors—
Night embraces the quiet dark sky
until it sparks alive with morning light—
DATE: 2011 Apr 2
There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom.
DATE: 2011 Jun 18
Pray on the shadowy hillside of hardship and on the sunny hillside of happiness.
DATE: 2011 May 1
When we pray, our hearts glow a glorious joy that lights our souls and all the world around us.
TITLE: Afterglow
DATE: 2011 Jun 18
Life is questions
and answers,
ebbing and flowing
in endless waves
DATE: 2011 Aug 13
Shedding late-summer tears for the end of cherry season. Patiently and hopefully waiting for pumpkin pie season.
TITLE: Seasonal emotions
DATE: 2011 Aug 28
The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. And we shine differently in the seasons of our lives.
TITLE: Angles
DATE: 2011 Dec 16
NOTES: revised
Let the rays of your heart shine on all who pass by.
DATE: 2011 Jul 3
Sometimes clean feels empty. A bit of clutter and dirt gladdens the heart and affirms a life in progress.
TITLE: Moving out–in–on
DATE: 2011 Jun 23
When you dance to your own rhythm,
Life taps its toes to your beat.
DATE: 2011 Jun 18
Desert sunset clouds exhale pink puffs of dusky smoke.
DATE: 2011 Jan 3
A poet is a lone wolf
howling his soul
at impossible questions—
Poetry is the answer.
DATE: 2011 Jan 7
NOTES: revised
Our bodies run on the fresh green fuel of the land.
TITLE: Fresh & green
DATE: 2011 Jul 3
Winter surfaces in the poet by late summer, and spring is already in his inkpot with the first snow.
DATE: 2011 Jan 7
Don't fake-live. Don't zombie-out as life goes by. Actually live!
TITLE: As real is real
DATE: 2011 Jan 10
Enjoy the unique beauty of each day.
DATE: 2011 Jan 24
Sometimes on the lonely nights the man in the moon is my best friend.
DATE: 2011 Jul 13
Heartbreak wanders throughout the body— it's a lack of oxygen to the soul, a chain wrapped around the mind, a poisoning of the blood, a sorrowful symphony drowning out all else.
DATE: 2011 Mar 24
NOTES: revised
Nouns & verbs
begin my words
but meanings
exhale invisible
DATE: 2011 Apr 10
Seasonal Forecasts
spring —
giddy and warm
summer —
happy and hot
autumn —
serene and chilly
winter —
blessed and freezing
DATE: 2011 Jun 1
NOTES: revised
Life's real name is Choices.
TITLE: Nice to meet you
DATE: 2011 Jul 3
You know you’re an Arizona native, when… —Don Dedera, 1993
…you know every cactus by its face. —Terri Guillemets, 2011
DATE: 2011 Feb 19
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How do non-coffee-drinkers rise from the dead each morning?
TITLE: Brains!
DATE: 2011 Jul 1
Old words are reborn with new faces.
DATE: 2011 Dec 11
Instead of a smoothie for brain power, try books.
DATE: 2011 Apr 11
Life is amazingly good when it's simple and amazingly simple when it's good.
DATE: 2011 May 1
Prayer of the day
God, let the people of the world understand how they can embrace simplicity to save their lives.
DATE: 2011 Jun 14
Sunbeams joy-pierce clouds.
TITLE: Rays of happiness
DATE: 2011 Jul 16
Sometimes just looking up and seeing the light is enough.
DATE: 2011 Apr 21
You are fate's shadow or fate's sun, depending on which way you turn.
DATE: 2011 Jul 16
Wine is liquid stardust.
DATE: 2011 Dec 23
Green tastes like life, feels like energy, looks like peacefulness, smells like earth's love, sounds like vibrant health (your body listens well). Eat your greens, go wild for greens, play in green, weave green into your colorful daily existence!
TITLE: Wild green
DATE: 2011 Jul 17
Don't forget that your spirit-twinkle makes life's rainbow shine bright.
DATE: 2011 Jul 3
First waft, the landscape ahead flashes before me
First sip, I stumble gently over the threshold
Each sip, one more step into another world
Tentative steps, then bold, then giddy skipping along the path
One more sip…
TITLE: Red wine path
DATE: 2011 Sep 25
Love: Is it passion or poison or both?
TITLE: A question of love
DATE: 2011 May 20
Veggies are my savior and my soul.
TITLE: Alive & healthy!
DATE: 2011 Jun 11
Sometimes, stress is just an excuse. You choose your own reactions to the world. Kick over that excuse and find smiling up at you the choice of joy and the joy of choice.
DATE: 2011 Jun 18
NOTES: revised
...joy-edged clouds
raining on the live-green earth
refreshing its nature-glory...
TITLE: Sunbeamed joy
DATE: 2011 Jul 16
NOTES: revised
Green leafy happiness and cherry-red life, bursting with seeds!
TITLE: Lunch, life
DATE: 2011 Jul 3
Appreciate everything, fear nothing.
DATE: 2011 Oct 6
If not interrupted, an INFJ can stay in a fantasy-trance for hours.
DATE: 2011 Dec 17
The universe is offering you healing — reach up and accept it.
DATE: 2011 Jun 18
Spring is headed in. Breezes run gorgeous through my veins and the spirits of the earth uplift themselves in their own awakening excitement.
DATE: 2011 Feb 3
Poets rejoice in the light of dawn,
struggle with a heavy pen at noontide,
quip with dragons and fairies at teatime,
love and muse in the evening,
and flourish with midnight ink.
(Sleep? No. We could miss a poem.)
TITLE: Overclocked
DATE: 2011 Mar 3
These lands are too parched, please rain-bless our hearts!
TITLE: It's a dry heat
DATE: 2011 Jul 3
I love life. Because even when it sucks, it's still good. If you truly appreciate.
DATE: 2011 Apr 2
Clouds are droplets of now.
DATE: 2011 Jul 3
Leaf blowers are excruciatingly lazy loud invasive rudeness, the hot air din of disrespect.
TITLE: Blown eardrums
DATE: 2011 Jul 10
HASHTAG: HSP
Passion—
lightning and thunder of the soul
crashing waves of love, torrential lust
lava-hot kisses, bodyquakes
storms of the heart
TITLE: Blank pages of an already filled journal
DATE: 2011 Jun 18
When the cherry blossoms fall onto you, don't wipe them away — close your eyes and have cherry blossom dreams!
DATE: 2011 Jun 18
i am a silvery-lined cloud
drifting slowly through deep blue
glowing on the edges
inside a rain-drenched hue
TITLE: Silver lining
DATE: 2011 Jul 16
NOTES: revised
Sometimes we don't look up unless we have a reason to. And then it all becomes clear.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2011 Sep 25
The devil needs no convincing of the poison in your elixir. But did you really think you had medicine?
DATE: 2011 Sep 23
Autumn bowed to place a beautiful crown on the Queen of Morning, and her velvet robes sway merrily in the chilly breeze.
DATE: 2011 Nov 2
I yearn to
fall asleep to
the rose-scented
burning-pink smoke
and dreamy aromas
of soul-poetry,
so that I wake to
a poem-tinted dawn
and morning's sweet fragrance
lays out my new day's path
in flowers of purpose and joy.
DATE: 2011 Mar 5
NOTES: Wtf? Idk.
Poetry and death are not strangers but lovers, bound by the ink of life.
DATE: 2011 Oct 16
We must be fulfilled in our own most deeply needed ways, then we can pass gracefully and without regret beyond our life on this earth.
TITLE: Breathing past fear into nature
DATE: 2011 Sep 6
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