Category: poetry

  • Welcome Home

    I visit my Childhood home  Remembering the cracks and crevice’s  It left in my skin  The hearth that set me on fire  The kitchen that raised me and made me And then ate me  Over and over and over again M.A.P ©️2024  

  • I’ve lost every home I’ve ever lived in

    I don’t think people realize how cruel this life has been to me How much pain i’ve gone through Losing home after home But the first was my childhood M.A.P ©️2024

  • Birth

    It was supposed to be magic Estatic  The moment I became Mama But it turned into absolute horror Absolute betrayal  Absolute trauma M.A.P ©️2024

  • On A Clothesline

    I grew up in the country  On a clothesline  Chickens outnumbered us like grapes on a vine  Playing cowboys and Indians  My hair never shined  I scarfed down all the food I could  To escape from my parents fights  The moon was my best friend  I talked to her every…

  • Savior Complex

    How do I fix what everyone molded me in  How do I break out the ropes i’ve been hanging from  This was my whole life  Until you cut me down  And i’m sitting on the floor  Missing the allusive feeling of flying  Youve freed the wounded animal  And now I…

  • In My Eyes

    The california poppies are blooming The cow with huge horns  Are eating the grass that is spread like a sea I’m driving with the sun in my eyes But I don’t need to see Spring’s delightful dancing scares away the winter storms And the world gives birth to hope And…

  • A Six Word Poem

    My body still remembers your abuse. M.A.P 2024 ©️

  • A Five Word Poem

    I can’t remember my childhood. M.A.P

  • Paint Me

    Why am I the only one who sees my mistakes  I know I’m so far from perfect  But I’m ok with learning My ego died with my childhood  I have always been like broken pottery  Glued together again like japanese artistry  So I sing now Paint me Paint me  MAP…

  • Seasonal Depression

    I am tired of people all looking down When the sky is so pretty  In their seasonal depression  But the season never changes  Until you make it  MAP ©️2024