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Archives — 2014
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2014 — the good, the bad, the active and the
If you feel beautiful, then you are. Even if you don't, you still are.
DATE: 2014 Sep 11
Butterflies dot springtime with flitting airy kisses.
TITLE: Spring flight & grounding
DATE: 2014 Mar 14
Spring: the music of open windows.
TITLE: Spring out & in
DATE: 2014 Mar 27
Wind tries to show Tree how to run wild.
Tree: "I cannot leave this place."
Wind: "Then let's dance."
TITLE: Palm's psalm
DATE: 2014 Mar 26
We live in an Arizona desert town
where winter is brown and green
and summer is green and brown
with 300 annual days of sunscreen
our autumn's unreasonably warm
and springtime is mostly too hot
here we live for every rainstorm
and the seasons—well, they're not.
TITLE: Unreasonably warm in Phoenix
DATE: 2014 Jan 2
LOCATION: PҺoenᎥᶍ ArᎥɀønα
Hindsight —
a.k.a.
I was a fool,
such a fool!
DATE: 2014 Apr 25
my body's lifelong dance with gravity
has turned to wrestling match
TITLE: Fallen youth
DATE: 2014 Jan 11
AGE: forty
Winter sprouts springtime wings and flies off into the budding year.
DATE: 2014 Jan 30
It's not all about healing yourself — it's just as importantly about letting yourself heal.
TITLE: Of letting be
DATE: 2014 Sep 4
The years pile up and hide under a new exterior.
TITLE: Aging inside & out
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
Memory's time-worn
— a crumbling wall...
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
...as healing as a mommy kiss...
DATE: 2014 Feb 13
It's a sin to waste chocolate. It's in the Bible.
TITLE: There are actually eight
DATE: 2014 Apr 5
the mind is a maze
where memories get lost—
and always look different
when we find them again
TITLE: Lost & foundering
DATE: 2014 Jan 25
with each passing year
spirit becomes more asset
body, liability
TITLE: Statement
DATE: 2014 Jun 12
Climb from the depths of your soul to the heights of your future.
TITLE: With or without a ladder
DATE: 2014 Oct 8
Homemade meals — especially mommy meals — are life's most pleasant fuel.
TITLE: Family dinner
DATE: 2014 Apr 6
Hope is wingèd —
one wing faith-patience
the other action-effort —
and we must fly with both!
DATE: 2014 Jan 30
NOTES: revised
We cannot heal when hate persists.
DATE: 2014 Apr 8
when the leaves fly
float, feather, flutter
off the autumn trees
i am in love with life
DATE: 2014 Nov 30
Hester unadulterated. The end.
TITLE: Alternate ending
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
Some translators turn an author's words from gold to stone, others from
DATE: 2014 Apr 10
I’m an HSP, INFj, double Scorpio, vata–pitta, and worrywart. But it could be worse — I could’ve been an extrovert.
TITLE: Gratitude of identity
DATE: 2014 May 14
NOTES: revised
Teetering on life's balance, between the long past and the unknown yet less infinite future, knowing it's only going to tip in one direction, and more quickly than you ever expected — that sense of vertigo, fear, excitement, and uncertainty, is
DATE: 2014 Jul 25
AGE: 40-¾
segmented,
fermented,
demented.
TITLE: Stages of Papago Orange Blossom
SOURCE: beer tasting journal
DATE: 2014 Aug 1
DRINK: Papago Orange Blossom, vanilla mandarin wheat ale
BREWERY: Huss Brewing Co., Tempe, Arizona
Hydrangea —
watercolor'd
confetti-bursting
flowery garden art
DATE: 2014 Jul 13
LOCATION: Portland, Oregon
A poet dips words into springtime to season her poems with beauty.
TITLE: Word-blossom beautiful
DATE: 2014 Mar 14
Who can sleep when all the words of the poem aren't just exactly
TITLE: Poeta insomnis
DATE: 2014 May 13
the miracle of a library card
to study, oh, you know,
fill in the blank — anything
TITLE: Endless knowledge
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
DATE: 2014 May 8
A fine layer of dust must settle on literature before it's truly complete.
TITLE: Grape juice isn't wine, no matter how fine
DATE: 2014 Aug 15
Every time someone says something politically correct, another brain cell of Reality drops dead.
TITLE: Trigger warning
DATE: 2014 Aug 3
Every time someone says something Politically Correct, it's another nail in the coffin of Reality.
DATE: 2014 Aug 3
Homemade soup has extra nourishment that store-bought will never have. Love and broth can heal many things.
DATE: 2014 Aug 21
NOTES: revised
Story of our life —
the kiss, a bonfire,
an atomic meltdown.
— Now,
come back to me.
TITLE: Romance burned
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
DATE: 2014 May 8
NOTES: revised
A lifetime of wandering
through pathless woods
seeking the ending for
“ I am ...” —
after all those lost years
I find myself knowing
it’s a complete sentence.
TITLE: Mucking around
DATE: 2014 Dec 14
Age is a foreign land I can't get used to. I want to go back home.
TITLE: Sound of winter leaves at night
DATE: 2014 Dec 14
AGE: forty-one
holding on to the years
i couldn't let them go —
and it's only fair because
they wouldn't let go of me
DATE: 2014 Dec 29
Cowardice —
the great horror of mind,
gnawing and poisonous.
TITLE: Afraid
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
Meditation —
don't think,
close your eyes —
You're in a castle
of silence,
getting deeper
and deeper —
Sink to the bottom,
beyond the pain —
Listen to the quiet,
hear yourself —
Walk to the edge
of the moment —
TITLE: Meditate
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
DATE: 2014 May 8
NOTES: revised
For the INFJ, all of reality is surreal.
TITLE: Surreality
DATE: 2014 May 1
money, money, money
it's the best hell
TITLE: $$$
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
DATE: 2014 May 8
Faithfully,
Truth casts his leaves forth upon the wind,
but few indulge in revelation to the heart.
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
The sensitive is the boundary between two worlds: our nerves and heart.
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
At the fireside of life
in the deep quietude,
I was happy of heart.
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
The bookworm had intellectual gifts —
wise, vast, and blazing bliss philosophized.
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
winter sneaks up on me
before summer ends in my heart
the spring blossoms arrive
when my mind is still snowed in
DATE: 2014 Dec 13
Sometimes when I mean to pickup my pen
I pickup my beer,
and I write with my drunk—
the ink an intoxicant always,
more so than brew or fermented grape;
mind ferments momentarily—
feelings, the fragrant raw hops
words wizen into malt
sudden fireworks of poetry
effervesce out the bottle…
TITLE: My mind ales me & I strain for words
DATE: 2014 Aug 11
I don't know, maybe
it's thirds and thirds
and thirds again
that makes us whole
SOURCE: typewriter poem
DATE: 2014 Aug 11
Women of happiness rule the soil.
TITLE: She gardens
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
No law for age —
more active within the sphere of spirit,
a freedom knocking at her door!
the blossom of womanhood to be cherished
— her own passion and heart.
TITLE: Middle age welcome
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
Broken,
praying—
It will be alright,
it will be alright.
TITLE: Faith
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
DATE: 2014 May 8
Moon, the stars,
a beer in my hand,
and my library card—
Yes! and chocolates.
TITLE: All I need
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
DATE: 2014 May 8
Vivid phantasmagoric reality —
happy, miserable
a half-obliterated shield over death
a pathway illuminating the years
a lamplight penetrating the human soul
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
Disastrous beauty shone out —
a halo of spirit — wild and brazen and dainty.
She has felt it in her heart, I promise ye.
TITLE: Hester
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
DATE: 2014 May 4
Torn free of the mayhem and the plastic—
Focus, young strong men and women:
We have a spiritual freedom, and courage!
Sacrifice. Imagine. Work.
TITLE: Give your lives to something
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
DATE: 2014 May 8
the music of spring
is as sublime as
the silence of winter
DATE: 2014 Mar 27
A spring morning,
alive and cool —
I felt the world mattered.
SOURCE: found poetry
BOOK: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
DATE: 2014 May 8
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