I tried to help, but did not understandand so I cried; I was your distraction,you stopped to console with loving actionyour care, my love, offered with no demand. With your support, upon my legs I standlike I walk on ice; with you, my tractioncarries me to our next interaction.You are there regardless of what you... Continue Reading →
Today alone at least three separate people have told me the benefits of going outside, even just for twenty minutes a day. I wish I could. I truly wish I could. I miss the wind which whips over my ears, making my hearing aids whistle so much that I turn them off and walk along... Continue Reading →
Choose your words wisely.Say only what you need to.Hold your hurtful words. 2021©DSCoremans This poem was written as a companion piece to the poem Villanelle - Hold Your Tongue, which was used as inspiration for the 13 February 2021 - Poetry Prompt. Picture Used Taken: Dunblane, Stirling (September 2009) ©DSCoremans Happy Writing. Stay Safe. Stay... Continue Reading →
Words will grow like seeds,if nurtured they will blossom;forgotten, rotten. 2021©DSCoremans This poem was written as a companion piece to the poem Villanelle - Hold Your Tongue, which was used as inspiration for the 13 February 2021 - Poetry Prompt. Picture Used Taken: Fallin, Stirling (November 2008) ©DSCoremans Happy Writing. Stay Safe. Stay Distracted.
You maysay anything,but that does not give youimpunity, for all the wordsyou say. 2021©DSCoremans This poem was written as a companion piece to the poem Villanelle - Hold Your Tongue, which was used as inspiration for the 13 February 2021 - Poetry Prompt. Picture Used Taken: Dunblane, Stirling (September 2009) ©DSCoremans Happy Writing. Stay Safe.... Continue Reading →
Have I gone blind; or just lost sightof an unplanned destination?Having held my tongue I feel contrite. I am the darkest part of night;I have fed on hesitation.Have I gone blind or just lost sight? Spitting words like venom when I fight,I don’t speak of devastation.Having held my tongue I feel contrite. My bark is... Continue Reading →
Are the decisions we make right or wrong? Does choice have a fixed morality? We live in a world where every life is one of constant choices and decisions yet are the same questions and decisions always answered the same way by all? When is something right? When is something wrong? Can that which is... Continue Reading →
Upon my shoulders the world has been placed;my burden, against my will and protest.I, a bird, return to an empty nest;my potential plundered, and then displaced. The badge I wear leaves me feeling disgraced,revolted by the skin in which I’m dressed.My path and progression have both been pressedand I am hollowed by my hate and... Continue Reading →
Duality, is more than just nature it is natural. Being more than we are is as much a necessity as it is a requirement. I want to be more, so I am. I may not be more…yet, but in time, pretending is enough and given time, I become that which I pretend to be. Easy... Continue Reading →
