Your first expressions…. your silly faces, smiles and hugs surpass the beauty of those things we have ordained with marked complexity. Your simple eyes, endowed with grace and smallest utterances bestow your mother’s eyes with smooth silk threads. Beads of light braided into your small head, your curls are graced with goodness. A mothers loveContinue reading “These simple things”
Category Archives: love
Happy Thursday
Have a wonderful week. I hope you enjoy this mini playlist of beautiful encouraging songs. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Five months later and I’m still living in my car. The rattle of the roadContinue reading “Happy Thursday”
Momma Sunshine and her Son Starlight
She was going out with a firefighter, but he burned more than he put out. He said I’m done. She said, love, you said I was your one? Later on that day. She found out she got a baby on the way. So she calls up her momma and says what do I do. IContinue reading “Momma Sunshine and her Son Starlight”
Hated girl within the mirror
Hated girlwithin the mirrorher hair too blondeAnd breasts too smallHer face so sullen Emaciated figurineStaring back into the darknesswondering at the sight of thee. Where is your love for her? God gave you her body to protect and love. Yet, you tear her limb from limb? You try to kill her energy. An infection toContinue reading “Hated girl within the mirror”
A prayer for a blog
A Book Of Poems, Prayers, And PainTestimony Without Last name Elements Seen And HeardSome Days Feeling Much, And Some Days Numb.One Day let this blog be a book for The Broken-HeartedLet This Pain, These Petals, This Rain, thorns, lyrics and Quizzical Psalms Sing For Themselves.Nameless And Maybe Among these Scribbles And Stray Notes. You mayContinue reading “A prayer for a blog”
She said you’re enough
I said to my friend. I’m sorry I speak too fast. Tell me to shut up. I won’t be offended. She said I like your voice. You break the silence and your my good friend. I said to my friend. I’m sorry I’m bossy. She said I love your guidance. I said to my friend.Continue reading “She said you’re enough”
Baptism without the rain
Welcome to New Mexico Now you may think that it’s dusty You may not notice it’s beauty at first But I hope dear friend after we spent so much time in the cold together that you can also see the beauty beyond snow in these dry landsCertain people think that the desert is always aContinue reading “Baptism without the rain”
The onset of sunset
The southern winds blow through the bluebells beside the creek. The onset of sunset arises to greet the lilting lake. While Aside the street, the dust of spanish moss falls soft on fallow fields; fallen red speckles hidden in their caresses Blazing star blooms dense beside the swampland highways And the twinkle of chimes fallsContinue reading “The onset of sunset”
In the Space In between unloved
Rosalie wrote frantically,Conspicuously cognizant of her own unintelligible ciphers: She threw down her pain and rain”In the space in-between, he does not love me! In the space in between she cries, but he does not call! He does not show tenderness in his voice.”For if his sweet breath was heard so heavy and sultry. SheContinue reading “In the Space In between unloved”
Children’s Poems: The Tale of the Fern and the Lady Bug
There once was a fern in a forest far away. Then one day from the East a ladybug left her garden green. The lady bug and fern soon fast friends said to one another: what a friend you are to me! Illuminating all of each. Ours is a love envied by the vines and trees!Continue reading “Children’s Poems: The Tale of the Fern and the Lady Bug”
Shatter my Soul
God wontcha shatter my soulGod won’t you break my heart Tear me apart Rebuild the fragments and patch up these scars God you can shatter my soul I’m not afraid of my scars or my holes I am whole in you
Now I lay me down to sleep
Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the lord my soul to keep. Now I lay me down to sleep. And if per chance I shan’t wake. To continue with my daily pace. Then find my friends for they are found-fragments of my soul. And each lost vagrant you should see. Let yourContinue reading “Now I lay me down to sleep”
Reroute
When is it okay to reroute? Are these dead ends or only roads not yet paved? When do we depart from our original destination and commitments? Afraid of the future-You hurdle towards the seas and cliffs. Bounding, leaping, crying weeping. Too prove you are awake. To prove you lived through another day. Scribbling frantic melodiesContinue reading “Reroute”
The Gas Prices Are to High
Verse 1 I’ve been runnin on empty The gas prices are too high I’ve been runnin on empty Inflation is on the rise Pre chorusIf I’m standing, I’m not lying If I’m walking, I’m not crawling on the groundBut lately I’ve been fallin down Chorus God will you help us get some sleep God willContinue reading “The Gas Prices Are to High”
Tough Love
Capo 7 G e C G eIntro Stop fucking quitting on yourselfPlease start investing in yourself, my love. Chorus I see more than you doAnd I know that in my soul that you will be just fine That you will be alright with time Stop looking to the past These worries soon shall pass SecondContinue reading “Tough Love”
Psalm 42 Conversations
Why my soul are you downcast? Why so quiet in me? I’m tired of loving and losing. I feel God doesn’t listen to me. Why my soul are you silent? I’ve been shouting so long. All I have now are whispered words. Why my soul are you quiet? I couldn’t take the clamour or theContinue reading “Psalm 42 Conversations”
But you went to heaven today
Capo 4 G e C e Chorus But went to heaven todayI miss you more every dayYour memory never will fade I would trade years of my life just to hold you again Verse 1 I wish I coule hold you again I wish I could just hold your handsVerse 2 I still see youContinue reading “But you went to heaven today”
Waves won’t you wash over me
Capo 5 G a C e G Waves won’t you wash over me? G am C And heal (em) my broken soul G? Waves won’t you wash over meN’ Make these pieces whole? As the white waves hit the ground I was lost now and found. In the space of the great profound. I wasContinue reading “Waves won’t you wash over me”
Call Collect
Capo 6 D A e G DGod do you collect the poems we’ve forgot? The songs we’ve forgot to sing? God do you hold tightly to those we lost too early whose memory still hurts to speak of? God do you collect the prayers we have prayed. The sorrows we’ve shared and laid upon yourContinue reading “Call Collect”
You’ll always have my heart
Capo 4 You’ll always have my heart. GEven when I’m far D or em 2×I pray that God guides you G Guards you D And minds you. N leads you in all am your ways G I pray that he’ll find you GHelp you and mind you D Be there for you am Every dayContinue reading “You’ll always have my heart”
Solo la música es fiel
Sólo la música es fiel. Todos me dejarán. Todos me abandonarán. Todavía la musica es fiel. Only the music is faithful Everyone may leave me And all I may abandon But music still is faithful. Solo queda la música Cuando todos me dejaron La música quedaráOnly the music remains.When everyone leaves. She stays. Llora queContinue reading “Solo la música es fiel”
There Are No Missing Pieces
You claim I’m giving pieces of myself. Like candy cut up for the crowds. You claim I’m just like everybody else. That I don’t know the value of myself. Nobody can take what I don’t give. I still at the core am who I am. These scars upon my soul will soon fast heal. IContinue reading “There Are No Missing Pieces”
Teach me how to sing again
Teach me how to sing again Teach me how to breathe again Teach me how to believe againTeach me how to beI used to cry every time that I sang Cause you weren’t by my side Why you had to go That only heaven knows Teach me how to bleed again teach me how toContinue reading “Teach me how to sing again”
Collision of Souls
Let it go Let it goJust a collision of souls Let it go Let it go Let it go my lonely soul Don’t hold fast to the past These memories won’t last. Maybe you were wrong This life is full of accidents While some of them will fade Some of them may stay Let goLetContinue reading “Collision of Souls”
Your Memory Resounds
Buildup introduction: 4 bars (em/ i) Your memory resoundsYour memory resoundsYour memory resoundsInter verse: Your light reverberates in this earthly space Your love resonates with all Your kindness echoes through the passageways Your goodness is heard through our global Halls We always feel you hear with us Though I’ve searched for you in shadows IContinue reading “Your Memory Resounds”
The boundless rain
Since I left my heart beats out of pace. What kind of sign is it that without you and with this vast distance, the doctors claim my heart beats with the rain?How funny! And how strange? The farther I am from home-The more increase my woes.And my heart is truly breaking I can show you,Continue reading “The boundless rain”
Breath
Our very first breath is a cry. No lyrics and no rhymes. Our very first breath betrays us. The suffering of coming days. Our very first moment of sight is the end the darkness. The start of new light. Our very first moment we’re held.And love guides us above the hard ground. Our very firstContinue reading “Breath”
The Consumption of the Sea
Shivering, she’s shaking. Someone save her from the sea. Cast her out from fathoms deep. Draw her from the tide, the green. Draw her from the foaming rage that seems so sweet and so serene until the sailor is unseen. Shushing sounds and silencing. She is silent in the sea. She is silent. She isContinue reading “The Consumption of the Sea”
Glow up.
A month from now. I will grow up. Glow up. And you’ll remember this rosebud that you left in the dust who you tried to pluck, for now I am grown up. My pith has gained in width. My stems are longer now, my branches have more thorns. My sepals are not run out. AlthoughContinue reading “Glow up.”
Lie to me
Lie to me if you’ll also lye with me And if you use me then use me well. For I’m tired of missed connections. Love me even for a spellLiar, loverPlayboy too. I know you never cared for me.This wasn’t something new.You were playing games with me, But I was also playing you. For I’dContinue reading “Lie to me”
The Silent Singer 