This is where I begin, words proclaimed to a with a straight face, over and over again
Every day is the same, every day I promise myself that I will change
Easier said than done
I hate that I am so comfortable in my cage
Ive confused numbness with gratitude and have become a master of complacency
But I do dream, dreaming is easier than doing
At least there is a world I can control
I sometimes slide my hands through the invisible railing and draw a line in the sand
Am I putting my foot down yet?
You never hear me
Not Mine to Begin With
I fought for love, but love should not be war,
each day I bled, yet you asked for more.
The moment her eyes caught your wandering gaze,
I vanished, erased, lost in the haze.
Deleted calls, messages that hide,
truth tucked away on the other side.
I tried to be enough, I gave my all,
but shadows grew taller, and I grew small.
If love is real, it does not sneak,
it does not falter, it does not leak.
It stands in the open, steady and true,
not a secret game played between two.
So I stop the fight, I lay it down,
no longer chasing what cannot be found.
If she can claim you with such ease,
then you were never truly mine to seize.
I hope she holds what I could not,
but I walk away with lessons wrought.
Love is not begging, nor fading away,
it’s choosing myself at the end of the day.
What are you waiting for?
When do you want your life to begin?
Grab the chance with both hands
Enjoy this dance and start to sing
The joy you can freely embrace
The choices that give you time
The love and passion and creativity
The boy that'll make you smile
What are you waiting for?
Let your heart and soul feel desire
Let your instincts bring you closer
To the life that is a beautiful fire
It's there to keep you warm
It's there to be your light
It's there to be a reminder
It's there to set things right
Nothing not meant for you will stay
It'll burn and create a new way
So that fire you're dancing around
Will give you blessings for your name
Let your life begin right now
Stop pressing pause on all your dreams
You deserve amazing experiences and memories
To reminisce about when you're free
© Michelle Morris, 2026
Your wrists smell of fig sap and October rain
your shoulder blades two furrows turned for seed
your spine the long fence-row the sparrows read
at dusk, each vertebra a sheaf of grain
The vineyard heaves into your windowpane
as roots cleave—slow, below, agreed
and where your collarbone dips, the ripe world feeds
its split apricot, moth-wing, what my palms have gleaned
I turn toward you at the sink, your hair still wet
and lay my ring along the small of your back
the pear boughs laden, the foxes at the run
the creek gone sloe at the farthest bend
what forty years of kneeling cleaves in earnest
one body known, the soul brought into harvest.
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tiny chirps from nest
new life springs forward this year
from weaved nest to flight
The volcano's sooty fingers
lunged out to reap
the lush fields we've bled for,
yet in return sowed the ground
with the seedlings of a tomorrow
we could've never foreseen,
as shrouded in morning mist,
dawn dew rests calmly on the leaves.
A tremor wakes beneath my skin
Desire pulls me deeper in
I linger in the fragile hush
Fear tastes the edge of sin
Hope answers from within
Your glance unsettles the air
Tenderness rises there
I stand where doubt is breathing
Anger flames, fierce and bare
Love crowns the silent prayer
Can We Again
If we lose love
can we love again
If we suffer multiple hurts
can we forgive again
If we fail
can we try again
If long ago traumas reappear
can we forget again
If we suffer physical pains
can we heal again
Life is a cycle
we must begin again
Do over___
When they thought it was over,
When many claimed it was the end,
Please, do start again.
When things fall apart,
Don't let worries busy your mind; instead, rest
and shoot from the heart.
Take deep breaths and look within,
Find the courage to start again.
Start again with the tools you possess,
Gather them, polish them, and build again, no less.
Don't turn away from the ugliness of the raze
Do look, but don't you dare hold a gaze.
Don't be afraid to start again...
And if you were not, become your best friend
And don't sit too long after the seeming disaster,
Just know that now, your strength and knowledge are vaster.
So, don't be afraid to do it over again.
With your tools, begin again.
How do you define heaven?
Locked up in a cabin with fireplace.
Party foods on a tray.
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AP: 1st place 2026
wipe sleep from my eyes
a cup of coffee on the savana
let the good times roll
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AP: 1st place 2025
Starting today..' for our yesterdays have run away.'
Young at heart…
Torn apart by the death cart…
Depart from me,
Ludicrous liberty
End me to begin you…
Mend me to forgive you…
Your sins are covered with mercy
From within, I heard from Your joyous glee
Compassionate is Your spirit to me, oh Lord of Accord
I’m aboard your ship of serenity
Free me for an eternity and beyond
I’m fond of our Bond of grace graciously
Background B.B King it
You'll get home alone
A Quartering as Jazz
As quart and liter
As meter and mile
Footage and reconcile
Irish Quartermasters Gaurd
Kevin J. O'Meadhra
Trace as feather
Low of ash
Bury of quill
Fide et amore
Nightingales Ergo
Send in rot
Further, borrow
Scottish wreathing
Entangled Britain
Relent
They of leave
Twined as lecture
Recital of yellow
Beckon brown
Revile of green
Tustled hearth
Baby babysit looks like
It's gonna hail
Jump and jive
As sent to the SAG
In tawdry spent
The war is lent
The establishment of thy own
A hate filled thrown
As crimes as thine
Tinkle and toast
In a entire
Only as pure
The picture as haunt
Plagiarism
Stores front
Sufferer as complaint
In stilled poverty
I law
Joan had little art
Lythed command
Hinde weeps rather as waltz
Herculean task
Wardrobe mantle black
Opening Suggestion of Betrothed
If you can breathe through it
You can get through it
If you can get through it
You can rise
If you can breathe through it
You can see your way through it
If you can see your way through it
You can fly
If you can breathe through it
You can push through it
If you can push through it
You can begin…again
If you can breathe through it
You can grow through it
If you can grow through it
You can win
Just breathe!
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