Category Archives: Poetry
Who Decided What’s Beautiful? (finding beauty in everyday life)
Who Decided What’s Beautiful? Bougainvillea petals carpet the path to my front door every morning [...]
What Makes Someone Beautiful (a cancer patient’s mirror revelation)
What Makes Someone Beautiful During chemotherapy, with no hair, no eyebrows, no eyelashes – everything [...]
There’s a Surrender In the Falling… (love poem)
Falling is about letting go, surrendering, and discovering that Love is not something we can [...]
Unscripted Connections
These three poems, written over eleven years, explore what happens when we move past performance [...]
Sweet Moment of Living
You know those random moments when life just… works? When everything lines up perfectly and [...]
Dissolved (what cancer couldn’t touch)
Cancer Happens to Other People The doctor didn’t ease into it. No gentle lead-up, no [...]
Once a Dream Was Mine…
Once a dream was mine, I held it firm in my hand, woven tight with [...]
When Garden Touches (a sensory garden poem)
Soil between my fingers, dark and alive, smelling of rain and rotted leaves and something [...]
Naming (grief, love, finding your voice)
Naming doesn’t shrink pain, it makes it portable, externalizes what’s crushing you internally… Some feelings [...]
De-Humanized (poem)
They took my name and left me with labels, stripped my skin of its warmth [...]
This Shit is Good Forever
"This shit lasts forever," he announced proudly, holding up a can of something that used [...]
What is Love? (an answer that cuts through the bullshit)
‘What is Love?‘ he asked And so I wrote… Love is what happens when someone [...]