Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts

Friday, July 18, 2025

Birthday Bashes [RANT]

Just a reminder that my substack has gone live with paid posts. You can subscribe for free and get all the free posts delivered to your inbox or pay a little and get every post sent to you. I priced the subscription as low as possible and have been posting at least twice a week. Summer has kept me busy, so most posts have been poetry, but I have high hopes to get more short stories out in the fall. In the meantime, wish me a happy birthday by letting me know what strikes your fancy here or there.

My brain keeps refusing to let me sleep until I address its need to write poems about various dark creatures. If I didn’t have an angel on the other shoulder prompting me to write light pieces, I might be concerned. have been posting these sweeter pieces for all subscribers because the world needs more light. I guess that means we pay for darkness. Seems valid.

The rest of the week has been devoted to pre-birthday celebrations. I have eaten cheesecake and Italian food. I have been carefully working through the freebies that find their way into my inbox. I have to get something for letting different places send me propaganda almost daily. 

Even better, my girls continued their camp happiness this week. Yesterday was their last day of camp, so they performed a cute little hula show for us. Of course, my brain thinks it is funny and halfway through a song about “hula hands”, it decided we were singing about Major Hoolihan from “M.A.S.H.”, so I apologize to my husband and friend who were sitting next to me for my snickers. I didn’t limit them to that song as I dropped my phone directly on my face while trying to make video to share later, preferably with shy boyfriends who are already terrified of me.

Clearly, I will not be taking up videography as a job any time soon, but I still think I missed my calling as baker. Luckily, I get to bake cakes for some of my adopt-a-family. I also keep forcing people to eat delicious brownies because otherwise I will eat them all myself. Please don’t let me eat all of the brownies myself. I do not wish to buy new clothes.

Anyway, my birthday swiftly approaches and we’re supposed to be celebrating again today with a little family trip to eat Italian food. Yes, I might be addicted to deliciousness.

Friday, April 12, 2024

Poetry Month: Week Two

So I feel like wrote poems from these same prompts last year. I might need to up my game for the rest of the month. My dear readers need something new and fresh from me, don't you?


April 6, 2024


Minimum


Say less, learn more

Accept what you knew before 

The veil closed behind your soul

Sometimes being least is your role 


April 7, 2024


Make Your Own Luck


Tuck that rabbit’s foot safely away

Bring forth blessed dice to play

Look for a clover with leaves of four

And never let doom linger more

Make your own luck with treasures you find

That calm your heart, ease your mind


April 8, 2024


The Moment 


This is the moment

Seconds pass, wishes sent

That this goes off without a hitch

No cloud, no rain, no cursing witch

Everyone shows, dreams realized

When the hand so prized

Slips into your own

Clouds part, the sun shone

On this perfect moment

When all see what love meant


April 9, 2024


For


Working for you to build you up

At last understood, the full cup

Runneth over with more to give

Showing why we choose to live

From touch to touch, kiss to kiss

Hoping we won’t ever miss

These eyes, these lips, these hands

And this heart that understands

But if we agree that love is enough

We will conquer when life grows rough


Against


Why hold out for love when you know

It will only wither and never grow

In a world so cold that love dies

Before the bride even dries her eyes

Yet some say it it will heal your heart

Even though it already tore it apart

So take a stand against love’s lies

And find your hope in your own eyes


April 10, 2024


Be Better


Be better, choose wiser

Step up to the next riser

No longer content to be runner up

Go for that golden cup

Be the best you, grab those stars

Ignore the pain, accept the scars

Life will let you down if you let it

So if you have a talent, bet it

No one will give you a dime

Simply because you want free time

To be your occupation

So rise up, be a nation

Of those who choose to be more

Earn what you claimed before


April 11, 2024


Memory


Memories, these fickle things that elude us

As we seek photos that include us

To jingle one more memory free

“Is this true? Was that really me?”

“Did I always stand just so”

“My eyes on him, how did he not know?”

“Proof at last, I made that touchdown”

“I wonder what brought on that frown”

Hair out of place but smile perfect

Let’s make more memories to expect


April 12, 2024


Funny


How very odd to be called out like this

When never once did we kiss

Yet you claim we loved and dated

Will you need for lies ever be sated.


How very odd to open this door

And find a flaming bag upon the floor

Don’t stamp it out, you won’t be amused

But it might cause snickers to hiding dudes


The passing of one so nefarious

Seems the time for posts curious

That make us laugh as guilt abides

But at some point, truth no longer hides