THIS: A Poem By Patricia Lockwood Seriously, brilliant work. Must read. TW: rape culture.

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Mirror

Silence

Climbing stairs, it walks with me

ETA: various authors, American Pain Foundation. I was distracted when I posted the links.

I wrote this a few years after I left my ex husband ( Read more... )

Sing hey! For the bath at close of day That washes the weary mud away! A loon is he that will not sing: O! Water Hot is a noble thing! --Lord of the Rings, one of Bilbo's favorite bath songs

My soon-to-be-eight year old grandson Jonathan sent me the following:

Poem
You are like a flower in the sunshine
You look like a rose in a garden
You smell like a spring flower in spring
You twinkle like a diamond

Love, Jon

That just melts my heart!

author unknown, from Annie's Mailbox column ( Read more... )

When I was a teenager I got involved with Krsna Consciousness (or Gaudiya Vaishnavism) with a friend named Carolyn after we listened to George Harrison's music and read about Hinduism. We encountered the book "A Soul's Journey" and later found ISKCON through Spiritual Sky incense. Later my friend was essentially deprogrammed by her family and ( Read more... )

Once upon a time I had a good friend who was a gifted poet. However, I could never talk her into sending any of them in for publication. She gave me one of them, formatted in the "olden" days by hand into a circle that fit the subject of the poem perfectly ( Read more... )