Originally posted on FREE VERSE REVOLUTION:
I’ve unfolded us like origami Ripped open our borders, dissected the dark corners of secrets forced them into light to mourn like hollow bones of birds.…
Category: Poetry
Eulogy for a Fairy Princess – Christine E. Ray
Originally posted on FREE VERSE REVOLUTION:
your words of sacred poetry take me back to the time before I was broken before I was rendered collateral…
Writing on the Wall
Originally published on Sudden Denouement I read the writing on the wall neon graffiti composed of cryptic symbols stunning words of power rage grief that
Falling
I stand before you more naked more stripped down than I have ever been vulnerable unsteady I have always thought falling in love would be
Pinprick of Loss
the loss of you punctured the night sky like tiny pinpricks on a black canvas covering the moon from view allowing only the smallest rays
Asking for a Friend
I heard Annabel Jones’ Asking for a Friend and a couple of the lyrics really got under my skin. They inspired the piece below. I
Eye of the Storm (Revisited)
loving her was like loving a hurricane a tornado she was a force of nature changeable unpredictable given to abruptly changing trajectory she could be
SEPTA (10 object challenge)
My Morning Commute Restless commuters Coffee to-go cups Noses buried in Smartphones Kindles/Nooks/Books Monthly Trailpasses/Smartpasses Inadequate shelter on concrete platform Signal Light for tain The
ASYLUM
Challenge: write about a life experience using only ten objects. Subject: My life as an inpatient social worker at Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (EPPI) in the 1990s
