We Have To Keep Dreaming

So I wait for them to go away
The dreams too dear to pay
And I toss and turn at night, awake
So no more dreams can come my way…

Warriors of Responsibility

there are times in a life
when we’re forced to go deeper
deeper below to find stable ground
below all the water
there is landmass that holds us
in place
and connects us to every man’s land

Songs To Be Sung, And To Die For

PURPOSE | a reflective poem on our search for purpose, and avoidance of pain

A Female Perspective

I know I’d stop the moment I feel safe surrender in your arms but we never get there magic words … More

Have We Ever Really Loved

LOVE | despite impermanence. and because of it.

I’m Here, You’re Safe

LOVE | A short poem on feeling safe enough to let the deeply buried pain out. To surrender in the arms of another human, allowing the past to heal.

Quadrilogy Of Silence

TRAUMA | An emotionally intense four-part poem telling – in reversed order – the story of an accident as perceived and experienced by a young girl.

Swimming

SURVIVAL | On the unawareness of our own struggle. On trying to be safe and seen, swimming in a rip that no one sees, a counterintuitive place where it’s impossible to reach safety by swimming towards it.

Star Drops

LOVE POEM | A short love letter to the carefree child – the child within or next to us.

Now Bloom!

SEEING THE FLOWER | A beautiful little poem on society’s obsession with the perfect and whole, and fear and judgement of the imperfect and broken. On feeling we need to fix ourselves and each other, instead of being able to simply hold space with love and acceptance.

War

INTERNAL WAR | One of my most self-exposing and healing poems. Written straight from my heart to voice the fear, … More

Hurricane Grief

FACING THE DEMONS | On when the ground beneath our feet disappear and we free fall into the dark void of grief.