Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, and this... 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 … Continue reading For Mike
Category: Poetry
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 Love Letter
Another poem from 2013. Let me never become an interoffice memo shuffled about under somebody's grocery list, stamped “confidential,” passed back to quality control only to be drenched with coffee on the manager's desk. Interoffice memos are stuffy and overconfident, assuming their technicalities absorb the attention of our braincells. But really, the words flow in … Continue reading 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 Poetry and Prayer
I finally got around to writing a poem last month that I'd been meaning to write since last fall in a poetry project on CleanPlace. The prompt Nia gave us one week was the following: "Write a poem that responds to a song. Do not quote the song! Write about how YOU respond to the … Continue reading Modern Superman
