Tag: Free Verse
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The Weight of Words Unspoken
In the hospital room where silence grows thick as fog, I watch my father’s hands—once steady as oak branches, now trembling like autumn leaves against the stark white sheet. A deeply sensory exploration of watching a parent’s decline, where antiseptic burns the nostrils and unsaid conversations pool at our feet like storm clouds that never…
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The Archaeology of Self: Excavating the Self #poetry
Who am I? The question echoes in forgotten chambers, and we dig through layers of conditioning, through the fossil remains of abandoned dreams, searching not for an answer, but for the thread that binds us to everything that is.
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A Letter Across Time
A poem inspired by Énouement—the bittersweetness of arriving in the future, knowing how things turned out, yet being unable to tell your past self. Written as a letter across time, it carries the ache of regret and the quiet warmth of love that endures despite silence.
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What Mamaw Told the Creek
“Don’t cross no river mad,” she’d warn. “It remembers.” In the hush of Tucker’s Ridge, Mamaw held the past like a quilt in her lap—stitched with floods, love gone sideways, and the music of a creek that always knew more than it said.
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The Art of Unbecoming: A Poetic Journey Through Letting Go and Transformation #poetry
Erase the childhood laughter that doesn’t fit the narrative. Erase the promises made at dusk when the world seemed possible. But some things resist erasure—like the way rain insists on falling, like the way an unfinished song hums in the walls of an empty room. What remains after everything is erased? What grows in the…
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