Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, and this is for Mike. Mike was another homeschool alum like me. He was a college classmate and my friend. I want so much for the homeschool community to recognize that we have pain and problems also. Not just public school kids. I want people like Mike to find … Continue reading Poem: For Mike
Category: Poetry + Fiction
Southeast Texas has the best fog ever. One of my goals for 2016 is to write a new spoken word poem every month. Here’s March’s poem. I’ve never read a poem in church before,But poetry is part of how I pray,how I attempt to squeeze the unutterable into syllables,how I capture infinity in my heartbeat.I’d … Continue reading Poem: Poetry is how I pray
So this weekend I went to Dallas to see The Thorn again. Every year, another part of me heals. Look for a post about that later. For now, here's some thoughts from the first time I went to the Thorn. Originally posted as a Facebook note, April 8, 2012: For those of you who may … Continue reading Poem from 2012: Love Letter
Another poem from 2013. Let me never become an interoffice memoshuffled about under somebody's grocery list,stamped “confidential,”passed back to quality controlonly to be drenched with coffee on the manager's desk. Interoffice memosare stuffy and overconfident,assuming their technicalitiesabsorb the attention of our braincells.But really, the words flow in one ear,travel through the vestibulocochlear nerveinto our minds … Continue reading Poem: Interoffice Memo
I wrote my first poem when I was 15 years old. I'd always wanted to write poetry. I feel things very deeply. I tried to write my first poem when I was 12, but I thought every poem had to rhyme. I was homeschooled in Christian fundamentalism, so I thought deviating from traditional poetry was … Continue reading Poem: Prayer
Eleanor Writes Things 