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Love Letters Thirsty Thursday Visual Artwork

Dear Red | Letter 2

Dear Red,

My hands miss you even now. They miss the feel of your skin, the warmth of your body. They miss running through your hair, squeezing the soft skin around your neck, pinching your taught nipple, parting your lips, fingers swimming in the warm wetness, tight and strong, yielding walls.

My fingers miss you even now. They miss creating the causes for those small moans to escape your throat. They miss meeting your fingers in the push and pull games we would play. They miss tickles, and walking along the pale bumpy shore of your shoulder blades, raised pores, sensitive beyond measure. They miss control with tiny touch. They miss running for their lives to avoid being crushed in the roiling brawl, dark room, damp sheets, foot on floor, head on bed. 

My head, it misses you even now. It spins and movies play across my lids. I yearn to close my eyes in every waking moment to bring you back to my here and now. My ears feel your lips, hear your whispers. My neck hair raises to think that near you passed. I smell the air hoping to catch the non-existent waft of your invisible scent – woodsy deodorant, dark amber and cotton candy.

My dearest Red, my soul misses you even now. It was as if it was whole until I bore into you and created the causes for my own misery. Misplaced attachment and tangible fear of loss to replace peace and joy and love. An uncontrolled desire that rewrites fact with lustful fiction on a cord I wrap ‘round both our necks.

Dear Red what mind is it that yearns for direct suffering as the product of a wish? What mind that reaches for the poison on the top shelf and strives to spill every last drop into its own being? What unabashed lust that craves bodily satisfaction over everlasting love? It is my mind. So in my mind we sit together now. All night long we have not stirred, and yet God has not said a word! 

“Red” ~ 10.20.20 ~ Acrylic on Canvas ~ 12″ x 16″

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Philosophy Poetry

Woman of Contentment

Drinking cold blackberry bubly
In the hot Himalayan-salted bath
In the apartment I rent
And listening to Nat King Cole
I belch loudly four times through the open window
Being a woman in the twenty-first century isn’t so bad

As long as I hold patience for people
And cherish the other that is not me.

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Poetry Saturday Expressions Visual Artwork

Saturday Expressions! | Session 1

Saturday: the day I’m designating for the shameless sharing of my artistic endeavors whether they be poetic, painted or playlist.

We’ll kick it off this week with painting & poetry.

Below, oil painting, “Where is my mind?”

Where is my mind? ~ 02.04.21 ~ 12″ x 16″ ~ Oil on Canvas

Below, excerpt from November-release poem, Come Together:

… as only magic that persuades
the body move separate from mind
out of control, dancing in time
to art brought forth from empty space
a fire burns within this place
a story comes forth from your lips
I’m dancing with it on my hips
it is hypnotic as I twirl
no longer human, no more a girl
a spirit, light and transformed, airy …

Come Together, 2020

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Poetry

Everyone I know is sick

Though they assert they’re not
It’s that time of year
As winter taps his frigid nails against
Autumn’s clock
We’re reminded
Though we may pretend
We can’t stop the seasons nor change the tides
All living die and
All things end
While a regular cold and flu season
Begins again

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Poetry

Good Grief

Charlie was a good boy
zig zagging over creeks, through fields
a time long gone yet still remembered

some folks willing to keep memory alive
while children’s minds burn away
the fire stoked by fatigued parents

no longer packing lunches in their poverty
abandoning maternal urges in ugly rebellion
against nature instead of society

how cruel that Charlie’s world is gone
a fantasy a child shall never more live
the cool grass beneath bare feet now plastic turf

upon which lolls a kid, game controller in hand
and channel changing between two minute videos
five minutes now too long an attention span

for the precious lives establishing
our future, autodidactic meets idiocracy
I miss nature, and civil society

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Poetry

Erroneous

Such a betrayal was this:
That your fast friendships
Overwrote years of promise, sacrifice, love
Your quick fixes and sober thirst for escape
Kept you trapped, stuck fast, held soft, not firm

I hope you realized the advice you canvassed
It still seems you don’t know whose to follow
Your own untrustworthy tongue clamped
by repression and a determination to omit truth

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Poetry

Wordstruck

felt not by touch
yet quivering heart
moved by words
breathing taught
stomach knot
separate by space
elusive here
screen before me
illusively near you
sounds from mouth
and meaning birthed
upon your lips
that felt not worth
of magic spell
cast down from mind
rippling through
this soul of mine

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Poetry

Responsibility 2

One day we will recall
how we contributed to our own enslavement

Or we can forget
like we always have
And lay the blame
on someone else

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Philosophy Poetry

Locked Out

So much for lock downs
Gone are the days when
Doing your part
Was staying at h♡me

Now to do your part
Is to submit your autonomy
To rulers intent on
Achieving numbers
Improving economy dependent on
Temporary numbers
To secure an insecure future

What will come next?
I cannot say
But someone should
Depose to dissent
If only to capture
At least one other perspective
Though there should be
Perhaps millions expressed
Hegemony or survival?

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Poetry

My Grandpa Taught Me to Play Tetris

I say “yes” to each
Tetris block that falls
I say “I left space for you”
there is no good or bad
everything fits or doesn’t

I do my best.
How could I do more?