Marmalade Musings

So full of happiness and hope am I Down from my umber, sparkling eyes it streams, The appled drumlins of my cheeks capsize In full-fledge...

Which side of the story did you read first? Commiserate with the plight of the prisoner Before learning of his crime? I absorbed his sto...

this cold is making me appreciate wellness every thoughtline rounding back from illness to gratitude & joy in moments full of silence all...

The alarm blares through the morning Giving us repeated warnings That a new day once more is dawning But we don't care to heed Until it i...

Encased beneath your freckled skin Stretches a universe full of wonders We wake. I look into your eyes Nebulas entrancing my depths And y...

Parting ways at the door Opened to our eight hours elsewhere My feet are bare He's said goodbye; my thoughts spin In the whirlpool I've b...

I am here to tell you The God you were taught Doesn't exist. Isn't it more likely that a god of love, Love itself, not what we worship bu...

Swallowed the lie that clothes are more Than something to keep me safe and warm That what I wear should affect how I’m seen Whether viole...

A shiver of truth in my willow-iron spine That knows the strength of bending, Fissures of cold streaking along my arms “Don’t you know wo...

O that sweet lack, that relief in the cracks Once worrying at what was there before Now I sigh at this yield to my attack And my vexing e...

Halfway a heathen Halfway religious Often the worst half of both Could I but be more kind Or the more callous – And leave you, Reader, to...

O! to be loved To be adored for the things I am To be utterly myself and lauded For the things I cannot help but be This is bliss. To hav...

What I mean is This is hard and I'm afraid you'll want to stop Stop talking, silent as a ghost Stop seeing, like a needle whose eye is pa...

The sky's east rim lightening with the haste Of sudden kisses unexpected fair Sun always rising to lay blesséd waste To shadows grim and ...