Flowers

Still Life #1 - Photo by Casila

This poem was inspired by this piece of art that was made with acrylic yarn and paint, plastic bottles, chicken wire, and fishing line.

You beg for flowers?

You narcissistic manipulative witch who loves conditionally

Gaslighting me for decades

Let me not embarrass you

Plastic bottles, chicken wire

Fishing line, in this newer life

Reducing consumption of your negative energy

Reusing this abusive experience creatively

Hoping that others will awaken to this type of trash

Recyclable for the good

Another poem to read: Extinction

People Watching

Lake - Photo by Casila

She walked over the paper, on the ground

Decided to turn around, for closer observation

She started collecting pieces of a photograph

Not carried away by the wind

She gathered them into a pile

Photographed her collection

Then gathered the pieces in her hand

Stuffed them in her jacket pocket

Someone's symbolic ending, became her treasure

She left

That moment behind

Another poem to read: The Rough Draft

Hustle Culture

Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels

Here comes the train

Trample me

Step on my feet

Breathe on me

Fall onto me

Irritate me

Rush out the doors

Street stampede

Run like a bull

Corporate Drive

Watch out

Running of the bulls

Tick tock

Watch out

Lights turn red

Watches out

Tick tock

Watches are out

Rush in

Elevator closed

Boxed in

Tick tock

Breathe

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

Rush, quickly

Clock-in

Breathe

Another poem to read: God's Plan

Alpha Women

Photo by Daria Shevtsova from Pexels

Wear the pants

Buy the bread

Pay the rent

Made to stand

Near seated men

On the bus

On the train

Don't you fuss

Don't look touched

Don't look weak

Dry your eyes

"Smile", he said

Grin, with teeth

Another poem to read: Co-parenting