Marmalade Musings

I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow down the walls Housing my failing mental state Who ever knew this tumultuous fall Would come of fe...

Life. The complexity of it, the triumph, the defeat, the swirling of paths all joining and mixing together to create one person's unique ...

Why do I wait until I'm a cranky raisin to take care? Until water runs down my throat, cool as winter, cool as peace, Cool blue in a rush...

4 a.m. rising at my body clock's alarm I take myself away to the other room, To quiet. Light. Bunny snuggles, solitude And browsing early...

A word I stumbled upon in story research Trying to find the right word for that sweet activity Of lying in grass that smells oh-so-green ...

Gathering the pieces, sorting them out color by color Finding all the edges and now I think I'm at the sky Filled with silver-lined cumul...

I have a nervous disposition. Walking a path too filled with things that go bump in the night will do that, until hands shaking to strike...

All these people telling me not to be angry Exhorting me to forgive, in their own poison: "Forget all about wrongs and enable those old p...

Last night, lying in the dark alone with my soul I imploded. A flower curling its petals inward Recoiling from damages incurred in Eden. ...

It's funny Those in my life who've made me outcast Likely walk their days thinking of God's will And don't hold themselves accountable fo...

Today is the day I stopped being awkward Well, not exactly, because I'm sure I'll Second guess myself again and certainly Speak out of tu...

All my life I've strived for strength, whether it helped or harmed And cultivated its varietals, both those tender and their cousins hard...

Here I am so far from where I started Knapsack light as it would ever be Eyes somehow neglecting all the shadows Full of daydreams and wh...

How many of you have cast your stones Flung them at me unthinking, callous, Like monkeys flinging shit at glass Like tigers breaking bone...

My world crumbling, my sky falling, my fears rising in rogue waves The stars streak down and I among them, all my flaws displayed Foolish...

Young William was new to town He wore not the hardened frown Of regulars at the saloon He sauntered breezily through the doors Past outlaw...

What I wish I could have said, in my mind's-eye arena; Iron-spined and self held proud whether standing or kneeling Before tormentors who...

Examine your self by all your actions, By which parts you give to little factions And do your values morph to abstractions When they vex ...

I heard somewhere when I was too young That beauty is pain. A fact. Nonchalant and laughing: Beauty is pain In reference to high heels an...

Static builds in the air Silently, steadily. The little world filling With unexpected tension. The storm breaks All is wrong with everyth...