The Light Stays Red for Thirty Days

I know you’re terrified People scared of people Eyes meet eyes with worry Countries forced to rest While the world resets   You were moving far too fast anyways So, this is it Time The break we didn’t know we needed What will you do with it?   Does the dusty beckoning book ever get …

Transcending

Stop, just for a breath Define all that you are in a single moment Attempt to grasp the unfathomable Intertwining worlds No language barriers for wide eyed grinning faces gifting the sweetest embraces The Temple drops bodies to knees Emotional rollercoaster People teeter tottering on the edge of obliteration Deliver a hug, revive a life …

Grasping Fantasies

Illusions, reality indistinguishable 300-foot-tall dust devils towering over ant size beings pirouetting across soft desert Burning man Firework backdrop This can’t be made up even with the barest imagination Innocently naked comfortable in skin All we’ve ever known before All now has changed Black Rock City Floating fluffy transparent clouds of a dusty dream   …

Powdered Visualizations

Caked in alkaline Dust in peculiar places Neon bleeds tangerines kisses Suspended bouncy merry go round Seize a garment if you can Disco roller rink, electric lemonade Big rig hammock pumping ten Enclosed trampoline realm Metal lustrous structures Finicky steps to summit Lone escapades learning to say ‘yes’ Sip the Playa’s decadent nectar Surrender to …

Travel Stories: Calgary & Banff, Alberta Canada

Mother and Daughter Annual Trip 2019 - We began doing these annual trips over seven years ago. Wow, how lucky are we to have seven years of exploring and traveling together as mother and daughter?! It is rare for a city to have an immediate positive effect on me, especially on the first day. Calgary was …

up in the air

Commonplace events can be unnerving if not practiced on a regular basis I have found flying to be one of those things   Over thirty thousand feet up A gut-wrenching realization squeezes the wind out of me dazed and dizzy Surrounding mumbling passengers comfortably unaffected   Every takeoff of every gapped trip postponed vacations feels …

Travel Stories: 9 Days in Costa Rica

Peering out the airplane window as the plane was descending, my eyes were met with gray clouds, lightening, and heavy rain. My first thought was that the weather forecast was correct, and my brother and I were going to have nonstop rain for the duration of our trip. This was something we had planned, packed, …

Unravel

We have allowed countless minutes hours sections of days slip away to underserving miniscule irritants.   What are these silly little occurrences stealing smiles? How do they hold this much power over our lives?   Breathe in Let it all go one exhale Take the wheel straighten out hit the gas see it fade in …

New Age Romantics

Where did I find you? Paranormal powers Flipping tails on my worst days Melting every nerve Just the tip of the iceberg A winter wonderland lies below   Kisses on the back of the neck Rescued from nights terrors Sea of white Smile creeping Sun spying through blinds Am I still dreaming?   Breakfast at …

Back to Basics

Let’s eat dinner at the dinner table Phones in the middle silenced face down   Let’s play outside screens powered off Roll in the grass sun kissed   Let’s give our time away to others Float in only one universe tuned in lost in the moment   Let’s say all we feel without a wasted …

Downstream

Let’s move Sporadic destinations Budding emotionally physically beneficially   Let’s travel wherever you wanna go just take me Let’s get lost upon arrival Find our own way to nowhere   Let’s fall head over heals unguarded gullibly for silly jokes fast asleep into pools of cool water   Let’s move together Float like ocean spray …

Awaiting Direction

It’s bloodcurdling to care Wounds with the deepest scars Given too much to people Without one reciprocating bone in their body   Don’t let anxiety devour you When all signs point to no Craft a detour The alternative route never traveled   You are the exception.   Worlds wish on a thousand stars For one …

Lush

The wealthiest people in the world are the loneliest Do not be rich in money For money gives no love in return Money is for the materialist And the materialist has no love for others   So be rich in in love For love has the power to move planets To flip your world upside …

Spread Smiles like a Sickness

Life gets ugly destroying everything in its path You have to decide if it’s worth it Releasing surplus negative energy on a bad day   To distinguish between cloudy weather and hazy vision Maybe the world is a little more beautiful than you make it out to be   Positivity goes a long way in …

Travel Poetry: New (York) City Feel

Past Denver resident, the buildings are tall but limited. Recent Los Angeles resident, the buildings are big and crowded. Current Las Vegas resident, the buildings are bold and bright. Visiting New York, the buildings are Monstrous Gorgeous Ancient Towering They make me feel Miniscule Invisible Tiny A scream would produce silence This city swallows voices …