5 reasons why I must leave you… even though you say you love me

A poet’s decision

Rhetorical Questions on Love

When love is so joyful, why does it bring heartbreak?
When I love you, why is it so easy to get angry with…

Hiroshima

One day, out of the blue
rose the sun
not over the horizon,
the square of the town:
daylight
not from the space,
burst out of the soil.
The…

I Wish You Understood

Just because my harsh words to you were spoken in anger
doesn’t mean my world of soft words for you weren’t true.
Just…

“21st Century Woman”

I am an invisible woman of the 21st century.
People refuse to see me,
Like the others who came before me,
People refuse to…

“This Too Shall Pass”

When darkness falls and fiends amass
You must recall
“This too shall pass”

Anonymous

How do you get over a relationship
that was anonymous
for all practical purposes
did not exist 
a mere hypothesis
in the eyes of the world…

I am the whisper in the wind

I am the whisper in the wind,
in between meaning and the lines of understanding.
I am the shadow that stalks…

Poetry and Wine

If prose is water,
Poetry is wine — 
Both sweet and bitter,
Strong and intoxicating.

What if

I peeled off 
my clothes 
right here 
in the terrifyingly 
bright lit aisles 
of the grocery? 
What if I stuck 
my tongue 
in a stranger’s…