Just Letting the Rain Fall

Spirit healing time. Nothing New Age—just my old method of writing out my feelings on another Monday. No lessons here either. Just letting the rain fall. It was a typical Saturday. I’d just finished with my morning run, and now, I took a break to check my phone for updates on friends. It started first…

Napowrimo Day 29: Review

Whoops, guess I missed a few days. OK, weeks. But since tomorrow’s the last day, might as well make a last ditch effort. Prompt: write a poem reviewing something. “death of a friendship” we were bound by nothing more than a loose thread unraveling a sweater never meant to be worn shallow laughs during convenient times…

Of Mice and Cinderella

Jealousy lurks in the dark corners of a party, on the innocuous status updates of Facebook friends. Its tentacles seek out the ones who are discontent, the feeble-minded, squeezing the joy from their souls until all that is left is a bitter husk, taking pleasure in others’ pain. I saw it in the face of…

Mid-December Musings

My part of the forest has finally grown colder. It means I can no longer deny that autumn has fluttered right past with not so much as a second glance. How rude. Here we are right smack in the middle of December, and I can feel the constant pull of contradicting emotions rise in my…