head and heart weary cares of world weigh heavily upon my shoulders long to lay this tired soul on warm lap, absorb your strength 2017 Revised 2021 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All Rights Reserved
Friendship
The Daily Song: Sick of Losing Soulmates Dodie Clark (New Video)
I can't quite explain why, but I just love Dodie Clark's Sick of of Losing Soulmates. It has an awkward, geeky charm that really appeals to me. It is also has a surprising emotional depth. Her new video for this is heartbreaking and lovely and reminds me a lot of my teens and twenties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qGFAkyfjDU Sick … Continue reading The Daily Song: Sick of Losing Soulmates Dodie Clark (New Video)
Shelter
you are liquid warmth on long frosty nights you are soft whisper in a world that shouts you are gentle touch in a room of sharp corners biting edges you are jewel tones in sterile stark spaces you are embracing acceptance at the end of the longest day when the world has done its best … Continue reading Shelter
Petals
you peel back my layers slowly gently reverently one by one petals of a zinnia bud I take a risk resist the instinct to stay your hand delicate stirrings butterfly wings whisper to me to trust to let you closer allow you to unfold me slowly gently reverently Growing hope that when you reach my … Continue reading Petals
My Dear Companion
we have only recently met but there is a sense of inexplicable connection an easiness of souls like greeting an old, dear friend whom I share a deep history with as if we had shared a babysitter as toddlers and peanut butter sandwiches and fritos in the lunchroom in grammar school and protected each other … Continue reading My Dear Companion
Cafe Shorts 2
We breathe our words off the page release them tentatively into coffee scented air where they ripple past receptive ears gently embrace souls with the knowledge that they are no longer alone 2017 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All Rights Reserved Originally posted at the Go Dog Go Cafe
Brave & Reckless 