My Poems Archives — Page 2 of 16

“I Remember Her Hair” & The Prompt That Led Me Here

Happy Wednesday, everyone! I hope you’re all enjoying your week. I’m doing things a little differently this week, writing poems every day, but in…

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“Where It’s Gone” & The Prompt Behind It

Hi everyone! Happy Tuesday! I’m doing things a little differently starting this week, sharing a poem and the writing prompt behind it (I’m back…

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“All My Things Are Empty Now” & The Prompt That Wrote It

Hello, everyone! I hope you had a nice weekend and are enjoying your Monday. Starting this week, I’m going to do something a little…

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What Growing Up Tastes Like

—A poem today after a long hiatus —Happy International Day of the Girl WHAT GROWING UP TASTES LIKE I sit with my…

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A Walk in the Snow

When we were younger, we leveled footprints in the woods—off the path, of course, down deep where the sun could barely find us, where…

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My Dumb Heart

—To my fellow Benders, I threw on my grief. MY DUMB HEART is open wide and overflows with water. How I manage…

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Dear Emily—

—Hope is the thing with feathers. Here is a truth: I thrive on hope. But yet, here is another: if you fill a…

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A Poem with a Gun Inside

It beats. It hums. My heart— what else could beat so cold and low as this : make me a list. give me a…

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big poem, small poem / new poem sure / longer poem, brighter poem / birds birds birds

Hello all! It’s been a while again, I know. I’ve been missing writing in the worse way but otherwise wrapped up in my new…

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Two Truths & A Lie

My future & my past are essentially the same: whether it is me or her riding in the back seat, I still have to…

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In a Field, The Absence of Field

or heart—like breathing, you enter waist-high grasses, the tan of prairie dog, fern, wild lily, & the wind takes you up into itself, your…

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I Treat Your Swollen Ankle

propped on a pillow on our oversized coffee table, all of our ice packs lost…

Category: My Poems

“I Remember Her Hair” & The Prompt That Led Me Here

“Where It’s Gone” & The Prompt Behind It

“All My Things Are Empty Now” & The Prompt That Wrote It

What Growing Up Tastes Like

A Walk in the Snow

My Dumb Heart

Dear Emily—

A Poem with a Gun Inside

big poem, small poem / new poem sure / longer poem, brighter poem / birds birds birds

Two Truths & A Lie

In a Field, The Absence of Field

I Treat Your Swollen Ankle

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