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Melissa
February 13, 2024
wisdom

Wise Love

Melissa
February 13, 2024
wisdom
Wise Love

At my age now… I am wondering what kind of love I’ll experience next. 

Tagged: healing, relationships

Melissa
January 15, 2024
life

Inverness

Melissa
January 15, 2024
life
Inverness

Somehow, I became fascinated by a particular word and then a place by the same name: a place called Inverness. When I first heard the word, I thought immediately that it meant some kind of inner state of being…

Tagged: healing, nature, travel, spirit, relationships

Melissa
November 12, 2023
sparks

I Wonder if They Dream of Me?

Melissa
November 12, 2023
sparks
I Wonder if They Dream of Me?

Because some mornings I wake up

near screaming.

Bleating out through the ether

and the interstitial plane…

Tagged: healing, relationships, poems

Melissa
October 15, 2023
life

Just Keep Swimming

Melissa
October 15, 2023
life
Just Keep Swimming

When I arrived home from a vacation this past Monday and was all set with my bikini for an early morning hot tub dip, I was dejected to discover the “Pool Closed” sign on the entrance door…

Tagged: nature, change, self-care, spirit, growth

Melissa
September 17, 2023
sparks

The Mountain

Melissa
September 17, 2023
sparks
The Mountain

Up to the mountain again,

where I’ve brought many I’ve loved—

family, a lover, a friend—

Tagged: growth, healing, relationships, poems, spirit, nature

Melissa
January 8, 2023
sparks

Disarmament

Melissa
January 8, 2023
sparks
Disarmament

First, you sat on my cracked 

house haunted with disinhabitants.

Tagged: growth, healing, relationships, poems

Melissa
June 27, 2021
wisdom

The Well

Melissa
June 27, 2021
wisdom
The Well

There is a well we are all born with and for some it is very deep, as is mine.

My own, though, like many’s, got filled with stones…

Tagged: growth, healing, mindfulness, resolve, spirit

Melissa
May 16, 2021
sparks

I took my grief to the sea

Melissa
May 16, 2021
sparks
I took my grief to the sea

I took my grief to the sea

To bury it on the beach

It was a discreet ball of grief

Not much smaller than a baseball

Tagged: poems, growth, healing, self-care, relationships

Melissa
September 1, 2020
sparks

The Expanding Woman

Melissa
September 1, 2020
sparks
The Expanding Woman

She’s not reaching out

or grasping for anything

or anyone anymore.

Right here

she has herself.

Tagged: poems, resolve, change, growth, healing, independence, on being a woman, mindfulness, self-care, spirit

Melissa
August 4, 2020
sparks

Summer, Palm Springs During Pandemic

Melissa
August 4, 2020
sparks
Summer, Palm Springs During Pandemic

The cicadas are sizzling.

Lawn mowers mow outside my window.

Tagged: poems, resolve, nature, humankind

Melissa
March 31, 2020
life

Still Life

Melissa
March 31, 2020
life
Still Life

We all had so many different plans of what what we’d be doing and how we’d be living. But we are doing this now. Staying in. Taking care. Staying safe. Taking care of each other… This is all still life.

Tagged: resolve, change, growth, healing, humankind, spirit

Melissa
February 11, 2020
sparks

If My Life Has No Light

Melissa
February 11, 2020
sparks
If My Life Has No Light

If my life has no light...

If it is cold and dark...

If it is quiet and buried deep...

Tagged: poems, spirit, the creative path, resolve, growth

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