Literature – Page 2 – Red Tent Living

Unstoppable Force: truth in love

By: redtentwomen March 30, 2020March 29, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureDanielle Castillejo, Poetry, Recovery, TherapyLeave a Comment

Truth in love. I wait for you Not very patient Confused, battered, Ramming my way along.

She Knows

By: redtentwomen March 23, 2020March 22, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureJill English, Poetry6 Comments

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…

Desperation

By: redtentwomen March 11, 2020March 10, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureHannah Wilder, Poetry1 Comment

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

Lit

By: redtentwomen March 2, 2020March 1, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureHannah Umphress, Poetry, Recovering from Abuse1 Comment

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.

Grief

By: redtentwomen February 18, 2020February 16, 2020

LiteratureMelissa Dempsey, Poetry4 Comments

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…

(Un)Barren

By: redtentwomen February 12, 2020February 9, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureHannah Umphress, Infertility, Poetry3 Comments

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?)

Permissions of Breath

By: redtentwomen January 21, 2020January 22, 2020

Day to Day, LiteratureEducation about Sex Trafficking, Poetry, Scarlet Road, Sexual Abuse Survivor, survivor, Victoria Ahlfors2 Comments

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.

I Was Born Aboard the Titanic

By: redtentwomen November 29, 2019November 26, 2019

Day to Day, Faith, Literatureabandonment, Barbara Beecham, Childhood Trauma, Poetry4 Comments

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.

Orion Is A Mother

By: redtentwomen October 10, 2019October 9, 2019

Day to Day, Literature, Monthly ThemesLiz Nelson, Poetry8 Comments

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…