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Blurred Realities

...Blurred Realities Cryptic, Faded, Vague.
Questionable behaviors  are they mere fantasies ?

No one is perfect,  inhale, exhale. 

I finally accepted I'm not anyone's favorite person. 

People ...

Life is life if moves on

...If sometimes name moves on,
Oftentimes fame moves on.

What well begins moves on,
If ends well, game moves on.

If able limbs move on,
Limb-lost, lame oft moves on. 

A shame-soaked scarce m...

Wearing Seven Faces

...
Seven faces she wore at different times.
She knew not when each face’s expression
might appear (some rarely; some oftentimes,
giving to others a different impression.)

Horrific abuse caused h...

Snake in the Grass

...snake in the grass is a real thing
they’ve hidden since dynasty known as ming
oftentimes knocking off the cherries bing
zapping toes with a little ting-a-ling

yesterday this was one under my bl...

Charming Psychopath

...
They live like we do and look like we do.
Inside their sometimes quintessential houses
they reside oftentimes with a wife, maybe children.

They work in jobs where we might work.
Some may even...

Getting Chummy

...“Doo-doo, doo-doo,” we hear the beast coming.
Music gets under our skin. The worst of attacks,
narrated by the boat’s captain. Unsettling sink
of the USS Indianapolis. Just below the hull,
a gian...

Fulcrum of a rose

...My Heart ~
the pump station of my love,
my affection.
Like petals of a rose—
the fulcrum of my fragrance...
attracting kindred souls to my life,
like bees and butterflies to a bloom.

Rip my ...

Voices

...These voices, a cacophony of din,
ring in my head, but most of them aren't mine.
Somehow, they found their way under my skin. 
Most are not nice, anything but benign, 
masquerading as my true voi...

The Epitome of a Walking Riddle

...she considers herself the epitome of a walking riddle,
gentle by default but still lashes out bitterly.
she tries to understand the world around her,
but still feels like shes in a dream she can’t...

Poetry Aloud

...I read a poem to my quilting class,
Which happens over Zoom.
It got a warm reception, so
They liked it, I’d assume.

I wrote it several weeks ago;
The topic: sewing curves,
Which even to a pra...

Bay To Breakers

...12k, 7.46 mile race from the SF Bay to the Pacific Ocean
They start at the Bay near downtown San Francisco,

And they 'Break" at the great highway by the sea
Oftentimes, exiting my front door was...

STAND UP TO YOUR HATE

...
For years now I have tried to understand your hate…
to find the cause…the reasons…
the source from where your anger originates.

I’ve tried to understand how much pain and suffering on others
...

Words

...
Words I have questions yet no one has
All the answers.

Words have an impact, Sometimes  heal
And oftentimes hurt.

Words breathe hope choose wisely. 

Words are soothing similar to the Sea...

Redirect

...Sometimes our best intentions

miss the impossible target-perfection

Sometimes our best efforts

leave us hopeless and contemplating defection

 

Sometimes our goal

of being everything...

For our house to become a home forever

...Inspired by... All those houses that long to be homes again. 

For our house to become a home forever 
By Michelle Morris 
20/08/2024

I walk through this empty house
And can see it used to be...

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