Stand Alive

It’s that time again for those who keep track. Unless I screwed you up in the summer as I did myself when I got lost as to when Tember was home and when he wasn’t. Was posting poems willy nilly. 🙂

I have written a new poem Stand Alive over at Flyhiee.com. The poem coincides very nicely with today’s poem Timeless Travels written in response to Word of the Day Challenge  word Odyssey.

I hope you enjoy. I know that after writing both of them I feel really really good.

Have a great Sunday.

Timeless Travels

****There are times when I see the Word of the Day Challenge  word and the poem comes to me. Today’s word was such as word. I knew what I needed to write as soon as I saw today’s prompt. I hope you enjoy.****

Time comes when life is reviewed

whether at death

at birth

or

somewhere in between.

Childhood…..

rosy pictures

bleak dreams

nightmares bled into reality.

Teenager…..

anger

rage

disgust

angst so dense

surrounded me like a cloak

hiding me in plain sight.

Young woman…..

wanting

needing

searching

seeking for love

for someone to take care of me.

Ha ha

I bet you never thought that of me

strong as I am

independent as I am

that I would like to have some care for me.

Mother…..

terrified

as I beheld his tiny body

awed

when he looked at me

worried

will I prove to be enough

or with him shall I fail?

Woman I am…..

beautiful

sexual

loving

dreaming

head in the clouds

reawakening that child inside.

My odyssey

my journey

arduous

fraught with damage to psyche

killing attempts on the soul

has lead me here

to this precipice

no longer afraid to fall.

 

©September 8/19

Picture is one of my own.

Matlock Beach Manitoba 2017