Author: Words Wishes and Wisdom

I'm a NorCal mom working tech, raising young children, navigating marriage and divorce, life, work, and the emotions around it all. This blog grew out of my IG account where I share poetry, prose, and other posts that I hope speak to the soul. This blog primarily features my poetic musings and other writing. I hope you find something that speaks to you while you're here.

I Statements

An “I-statement” focuses on your own feelings and experiences. It does not focus on your perspective of what the other person has done or failed to do.

Office of the Boston University Ombuds

I am human

  • a woman
  • a daughter
  • a wife
  • a mother
  • a lover
  • a caregiver
  • a nurturer
  • a provider

I am exhausted

  • hurt
  • angry
  • uncomfortable
  • scared
  • doing my best

I have a right to say no

  • to dislike something
  • to ask for what I want or need
  • to not be diminished or dismissed
  • to not be belittled
  • to rest when I need to
  • to prioritize myself
  • to have and respectfully express my own feelings out loud
  • to no be held accountable for offenses committed by others

I am not harming others when I am being my authentic self

  • not diminishing others when I speak my truth
  • not taking from others when I give to myself
  • not dishonoring others when I honor myself

I am an ally not an enemy

  • a partner not a villain
  • a friend not a foe
  • a person not an emotional punching bag

I do not want to be a vessel for holding pain that is not my own

  • a stand-in or effigy
  • punished for past wrongs
  • held responsible for things I didn’t actually do

I need to be treated respectfully

  • spoken to respectfully
  • listened to respectfully
  • touched respectfully
  • seen as I am, and not as I’m imagined to be

-gws

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Transmutation

I spill ink in controlled rivulets across an unstained page, setting down with curves and flourishes the tangled, unintelligible, intangible emotional illiteracies of my mind now transmuted into words and phrases, provoked into life, and now chained irrevocably into place by pen, hand, and mind.

-gws

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When I Feel Small

When I feel small and vulnerable, I turn to that which is wondrous and vast, and remember I am Her daughter and in Her care.

-gws

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♬ In The Forest (Acoustic Indie No Copyright) – Instrumental – Lesfm & Olexy

Spirit Well

Diving deep into the spirit well

Pulling deeply from the stillness there

Submerged in the star womb of the loving Mother

Surrendering my struggles into her loving arms

Hearing her lullaby whispering gently to me, “Be at peace.

You will fight again tomorrow, but for today, rest with me.”

-GWS

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Not Constrained

I am not constrained by your definition of me.

I am defined by my own limitless imagination.

I have magic in my blood and music on my skin.

I dance to the rhythms of the wind under billions of pinpoint stars.

My truth is divinely written as I journey in this body made of stardust and light.

-gws

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California Christmas: a weird love poem

It's a California Christmas
Where it's 70 degrees
And the palm trees are a swayin'
In the California breeze

The desert winds are blowin'
And the state is burning down
But we take some comfort knowin'
Santa's still comin' to town

The mountain tops are barren
Of familiar Sierra snow
'Cause climate change is ragin'
Changin' the world we know

So on this Cali Christmas
Hold your loved ones tight
Remember what's important
As you live your Cali life

The fog is ever faithful
The sequoias still stand tall
On this California Christmas
Prayin' "Bless us one and all."

gws

Arguing with One’s Self

Composite Image by GWS

Self: Why are you doing this?

Me: What do you mean? Doing what?

Self: Really? You are not THAT oblivious.

Me: Stop being bitchy, and just say what you mean.

Self: Why are you putting up with this bull shit? Why are you allowing someone else to place their misery on you?

Me: I don’t know.

Self: How can you possibly not know?

Me: Look. This was not what I thought I was signing up for. This was not how I expected to be living. THIS is not what I wanted.

Self: Yeah. So what are you going to do about it?

Me: I don’t know.

Self: Well you better figure it the fuck out, because I’m sick of the shit you put up with.

Me: So am I

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