#Beyonce Inspired Six-Word Memoir Voted Best of The Week on Smith Magazine Site!
Hello readers! My Six-Word Memoir on the SMITH Magazine | The Six Word Memoir Project site was voted one of the best last week! I was so busy that I…
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The Life-Box Collection (A Poetic Short-Stack Trio Set-Life’s Challenges) Vol II
Life has a way of throwing us about the walls of it’s structure, bruising us from top to bottom, soothing us with lushness and lulling us into feeling so damn…
The Life-Box Collection (A Poetic Short-Stack Trio Set) Vol I.
In life we’re driven by desire, loss and the need to be long-lasting. The following pieces pay homage to these factors. IMPRINT (desire) waking up to whispers as dreams fade…
Lauryn’s Taxes – A Poem
Featured earlier this year on my Tumblr page, this poem is inspired by songstress Lauryn Hill: An uncovering of self divorced of commitment broken down to the bones we see…
How Do I Regard Thee? – A Poem
How do I regard thee? High How do I express this? Eyes I take you in on the sneak I sip you slowly like fermented drink I’m getting a buzz…
Lyric Fire: Why Men Like Hairy Legs – A Rambling Poem
At 18, uncertainty was assured Innocence ignored like curfews and illuminated street lights We were young Bodies mirrored untraveled curvy roads So we took day trips that…
Lyric Fire: Orange Blue Dust (A Poem)
time elapsed measured moments spinning beyond light submerged in madness presenting brightly like sun drops sweet like candy tasting of aspartame balled up tight like wrinkled skin on areolas the…
Lyric Fire: Pretty Girl Cry: A Poem
wrapped in sunshine bathed in lava light magnified, yet dimished expected to exude happiness always even in the midst of calamity the shell can’t crack ever the fantasy can’t…
Lyric Fire: NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 30 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – Feed Me (Featured on NPR’s Tell Me More Show)
NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 30 Looks like we made it! Today is the last day of the NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Month) poetry challenge! 30 poems in 30…
Lyric Fire: NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 29 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – My Release & Joy (Two Poems)
NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 29 With two more days to go in the NaPoWriMo poetry challenge, I decided to pay further homage to the genre by presenting…
Lyric Fire: #NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 28 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – El Baño
NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 28 For some reason I woke up very early and of course some ideas were floating about. Thank goodness one popped…
Lyric Fire: #NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 27 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – Empty in the Middle
Image source NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 27 It’s Friday! Whoo hoo! What an amazing week it has been. I have read some amazing poetry and…
Lyric Fire: #NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 26 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – No Thinking!
NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 26 With four more days to go in this poetry challenge, my fingers are feeling like lead weights and my…
#NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 25 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – Axis of Ever
UPDATE: I’m sharing this poem that I created during NaPoWriMo 2012 for today’s dVerse Open Link Night. It’s funny to look at work you created in the past to see…
Lyric Fire: NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 24 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – Revival
Image Source Page NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 24 Happy Tuesday! I keep telling myself that I haven’t run out of words, that I will…
Lyric Fire: NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 23 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – Click, Click, Flash
NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 23 Seven days to go! I think I can see the finish line. It’s in the far distance, but I…
Lyric Fire: NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 22 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – Detroit Central: A Periodical Poem
NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 22 With eight more days to go in this poetry challenge a sister is running on fumes! Usually if I’m…
Lyric Fire: NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 21 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – Nicki’s Mirage
Photo: PA NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 21 Whew, it’s been 21 days of straight poetry! Wowzers! I’m feeling a little loopy today so I…
Lyric Fire: NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 20 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – Sequestered Love
NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 20! I’m super proud that I followed the poetry prompts four days this week! Today though I’m back to freelancing…
Lyric Fire: NaPoWriMo 2012 – Day 19 of 30 Poems in 30 Days – You Dream, I Sleep (The Remix!)
NaPoWriMo 2012 – 30 Poems in 30 Days – Day 19 Another day, another poetry challenge! The fine people over at the NaPoWriMo site thought it would be fun to…