Tag: random musings
member name: mona d.
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October 04, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
Early morning
biting air
on skin still warm
from dreams of you.
shuffling across
chilled floorboards
the shower welcomes me
with a hot caress
that allows the fog
to linger. . . .
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August 29, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
I walked in
lacking expectation.
But there you were,
finally,
looking in my direction.
I needed to see into
your clouded window,
recognize who sits
on your dusty throne.
When our eyes met,
a . . .
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June 10, 2008 02:00 PM EDT --
When she sees him,
her first thought
is of the myth of the Yup'ik
and the hundreds of words
they have for snow.
It seems unfair that English
does not provide her
with hundreds . . .
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June 13, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
If the cornea replaces itself
every 24 hours,
have these eyes
absorbed your beauty?
If the skin regenerates itself
every 30 days,
are the violations
no longer scored?
If blood cells refresh themselves . . .
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May 04, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
contemplating joy (for mariana - ten items in no particular order):
-surrounding myself with the words and love of family, friends, and animals.
-falling . . .
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September 18, 2006 02:31 PM EDT --
note: this is a pure, unadulterated ramble. by no means a finished poem, but more of an expectoration of words that were choking me, thoughts that needed release. shit, i couldn't even think of . . .
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March 22, 2006 04:52 PM EST --
Stephen Schneider's "This has nothing to do with gather" gave me the courage to post this (thanks, Stephen). He wrote, "It is only a piece of writing of ideas. Something that used . . .
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August 18, 2009 02:48 PM EDT --
red pen clamped between my teeth,
thread bare dictionary
lays open before me,
its spine cracked and broken,
binding exposed,
pages trying to escape
my relentless searching.
i need . . .
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July 21, 2006 03:57 PM EDT --
The hole is widening again,
pulling me in,
bruising my imagination,
slowing my breath.
Last month was one year
since I first saw you,
and it was time to return.
But my body betrayed me,
had other . . .
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December 01, 2008 08:35 AM EST --
peer pressure...pure peer pressure:
1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Where is your significant other? home
3. Your hair color? brown
4. Your mother? here
5. Your father? . . .
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