In Her Image I am a dissident daughter No one taught me, God is my Great Mother War alive in my mind Starvation in my desecrated heart
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Unstoppable Force: truth in love
Truth in love. I wait for you Not very patient Confused, battered, Ramming my way along.
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She Knows
God is present in the dark. I remember reading this in scripture – something about the darkness being as light to God. Like her, you were in the darkness before you were in the light. I watch her – this tiny human who tests the limits of her independence. This tiny human who tests the…
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Desperation
Desperation is a sliding tear A world abounding with hounds and fear It is a question that scalds your soul Temptation that comes too high a toll
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Lit
The light has faded out of my eyes Where it once burned alive Until a series of moments I wouldn’t want Made me live them.
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Grief
A shell, her home so brutally shattered — maroons a tender soul adrift in open water. Cold. Afraid. And self-protection makes an unwilling warrior. A noble mother. Sword unsheathed. And broken hearts make an unyielding will. She battles sorrow and joy and birth and death, all that is vital. Captures all of them, (save the…
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(Un)Barren
Barren was the name given me at birth (Named after Hannah in the Bible) And by the fertility doctors (Unexplained causes) So many voices (Where is mine?)
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Permissions of Breath
What happens to the heart when the walls come closing in? When the thunder makes one hide amidst the shadows? Just breathe. Give yourself permission to just…simply…breathe.
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I Was Born Aboard the Titanic
I was born aboard the Titanic many years ago. The ship that “even God himself cannot sink” according to its builders. What Man has pieced together, let nothing put it under – the cold North Seas.
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Orion Is A Mother
Orion will teach me the answers to questions I ask through chattering teeth. Diffused along the smoky veil of my condensed breath, diluted among the ragged inhale of subsiding sobs. Barefoot under the thin shadow of a moonlit dogwood tree I endure the sharp winter air. My small body squatted, legs tucked inside my pound…
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