Timeout
...Just because I'm working on my mental health
Doesn't mean I think I'm better than a person who chooses to stay unwell
It just means
I'm working on my internal dialog daily, and I'm not perfect, at...
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Categories:
timeouts, mental health, self,
Form: Rhyme
The Zenith
...On top of the mountain, the zenith of
My life, my moment, the
Time when I thrived, so full of love
I was gaga
At the zenith of my dreams, as I danced
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Categories:
timeouts, appreciation, encouraging, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
An Old Threat
...Thoughts are ages-old
Well before separation, sorrow
Discordant, lavishly pompous
They blotted my past self out
sarcasm directed at man, I will be not
Timeouts Ignore
Promptly, it h...
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Categories:
timeouts, analogy, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
November Recalls
...The seconds ran fast
as did the minutes
which never seemed to last.
And the hours took wings
as if racing to the finish
to beat the last bell-ring.
The days flew by like jet planes,
leavin...
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Categories:
timeouts, november,
Form: Verse
Time
...Time
There is the essence of time in space, that we are not aware
There is a quality of time, that we wish we all could share
There may be times when you feel that time is on your side
Or time...
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Categories:
timeouts, today,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
I'M So Lazy and Sometimes Crazy
...I have always been so hopelessly lazy.
Stoic and aloof, sometimes psychotic.
I can be gentle yet independently crazy,
and my mommy says I can be neurotic,
but the affection in m...
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Categories:
timeouts, death, dog, family, love,
Form: Personification
Tahoe Tree Love
...I love the browns in Tahoe’s nature,
I cry from the beauty in each acre ….
I have seen many parts of America,
savored each region’s unique flavor,
yet I am now a mute and awed appraiser.
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Categories:
timeouts, beauty, nature,
Form: Lyric
Where I'M From
...“Where I’m From”
I am from pliers
from Tylenol and vanilla bean perfume.
I am from the budding rose bush,
the aloe vera plant
whose salve heals my burns.
I am from the tee-ball bat in the ga...
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Categories:
timeouts, birth, family, home, me,
Form: Free verse
Closet Doors
...Most closet doors are ok, if they're brand new homes.
Decorated with posters of the Rolling Stones.
Oh the monsters I made up when I was a child.
Inside my head were the sights of beasts running w...
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Categories:
timeouts, childhood, funny, imagination,
Form: Quatrain