To Do

Put away the books
Lying scattered across the floor
The table
The bed
Spilling across surfaces like toppled ink
A labyrinth of poetry and prose
Keeping me trapped in verbose clutter

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Roses

I bought myself roses today
Colored for this transitional season
The meridian between winter and spring 
Watched the red robins play in quiet branches Coated in the soft white of early spring snow
Sat at my window sipping steaming coffee 
Tapping into a calm that was new to me
Reveling in the luxury of peaceful stillness 
And let myself smile

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Closure

With naught even a whisper
I closed the book
Put down the pen
Then cracked a new book
To begin again…

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New Seasons

The leaves change here
Oranges and reds popping out 
Amongst stubborn green
The wind shifts
Autumn comes to call
The world leans in here
Demands life to slow down
The quiet season is coming
The world makes ready its winter bed
Telling you to pull out your blankets
Candles and hearthfires
Demanding preparations for long nights
Wood smoke and hot chocolates
And much needed rest

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Wounds

I experienced the blood without feeling
Without feeling the wound
To heal the wound
I must feel the pain
Then do the work 
To clean it away
There is no healing 
Without feeling 

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Spring Awakening

Seasons are changing 
I’m surprised to find myself In
In a spring awakening 
Possibilities bloom
While dreams grow deep roots
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I Hope the World Is Kind

To any who my words reach
In a time and place I will never see
I hope the world is kind
And if such things as kindness
Still prove fleeting
I charge you with performing
Defiant acts of kindness
That your efforts might fall 
Like seeds upon fallow fields
And grow like wildflowers
In the hearts of those you touch

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Dysregulation

Unnatural sense of panic
Fight or flight barely held at bay
Dysregulation finds a new pattern
Breathe - Breathe - Breathe it away

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Sunset

I want to splash the darkening sky with rivers of fire
Purples and reds and luminous oranges of sunset
And the waters will abstract my painting in its dark mirror surface
Making an abstract of my realism
A dream of my reality

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Drama

Don't disperse disused desperation
Drastic and droll
Dreadfully dramatic
Deeply disconcerting

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