"Of course, weakness is strong. It's the primary impulse. You'd probably prefer to sit in your little room and cry. Live in your finite collection of memories, carefully polishing each one. Half a life set behind glass and pinned to cardboard like a collection of exotic insects. You'd like to live behind that glass, wouldn't you? Preserved in aspic."
From Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan
"Usually, when the truth sets you free it beats the shit out of someone else." -Mercy
Well it has been a year of learning and growing and always spilling!
My most inspirational poet is Anne Sexton, my all time favorite poem being "For my lover returning to his wife".
She has achieved sheer brilliance with her language and her life-long devastation.
My soul seems to be similarly entwined with some of the heart ache of this woman although the step out of sanity and into brilliance is not necessarily an option i am willing to take as of yet.
Empty me
Of the selfishness inside
Every vain ambition
And the poison of my pride
And any foolish thing my heart holds to
Lord empty me of me
So i can be
Filled with you
Chris Sligh
This I believe but cannot always follow.
From Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan
"Usually, when the truth sets you free it beats the shit out of someone else." -Mercy
Well it has been a year of learning and growing and always spilling!
My most inspirational poet is Anne Sexton, my all time favorite poem being "For my lover returning to his wife".
She has achieved sheer brilliance with her language and her life-long devastation.
My soul seems to be similarly entwined with some of the heart ache of this woman although the step out of sanity and into brilliance is not necessarily an option i am willing to take as of yet.
Empty me
Of the selfishness inside
Every vain ambition
And the poison of my pride
And any foolish thing my heart holds to
Lord empty me of me
So i can be
Filled with you
Chris Sligh
This I believe but cannot always follow.
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, and quote is "Insatiable". - I am a 30 year old woman from Colorado (United States)
- When I'm not writing, I'm a Registered nurse.
- I am in the groups Critical Reviewers One, Independent Women, Poetry Circus
- I have 822 comments, 4 contests, 126 poems, 1 journal
Poems I'm focused on
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Whenever I read your assemblage of words I frown down into my tea,
for I cannot declare the radiance of their verse.39 lines, 4 comments, September 6
Active Contests
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Well it has been a year since words started spilling to the page again after almost a decade of crickets. Now with all my appreciation for critique and dedicated friends and readers i would like to saturate myself in your bri1700 points, ended October 31, 22 entries In Big points
My Poetry
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I stumbled across a moment today. An infatuatingly sweet, serendipitous moment that carried such a load upon each syllable. This vowel pronounced hurt while another declared hope. A consonant hissed regret while the other pre2 lines, 2 comments, November 4
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A numbness clouds my vision today, some sort of lovely, cloudy protective shield that offers some barrier between the act of love, the desire for you and the absolute irrationality of either.9 lines, 1 comment, November 4
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Sometimes I believe if I cut my world
into long thin strips8 lines, 1 comment, September 29 -
Her eyes linger on the ocean
Green gazes over foamy crests.18 lines, 6 comments, September 7
My journal entries
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Dear So and So, 1 I do not have anything left to say to you. My wit and charm have left me. My shy humility has been replaced with a hauntingly pretty package that is as fearsome as it is lovely. It rapidly deflates whenever you touch it. The words that emerge are hollowed echos, some that evaporate before theyNovember 4, 100 words. → Make first comment?
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lunarlunacy on September 6hey K, just sayin howdy
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DolceVito : Buon' viaggio on May 25It's been a while since we last talked, busy-busy, and now you're leaving for Italy and you're not taking me with you
Nah, have fun there, Kelly, drink some good wine, eat awesome food, but stay away from men, they pinch butts
Stay safe, and have a wonderful trip
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Nangaleema on February 14Happy Valentine's Day!
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WordsDoMatter : Hi fellow healthcare worker on January 4... well not anymore... I used to be in financial administration in a hospital... you know, budgets, monthly financials, staffing ratios, all that... BORRING stuff... inspiring people is so much cooler! - Kevin
