Tag: journey
member name: MaryBeth W.
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March 08, 2008 09:42 PM EST --
I wished I was still in the Parc de St. Cloud, wandering around, alone - no one crowding me, just me, enjoying the quiet of the birds and the chatter of old ladies. I had no idea what they were saying, . . .
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March 07, 2008 10:57 AM EST --
Crystaline mist on
Arms held heavily to Heaven
God shines glass rainbows
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February 01, 2008 08:02 AM EST --
it doesn't stop
it keeps coming
and coming
and coming
careening
down
the steep grade
like a
oil truck with
no brakes
it makes you hold tight
leaving fingerprints
in the moulded . . .
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May 12, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I long
For that sun-filled eagle-walled room
of a day
breathed briefly into my life
The sun laying quietly on the
Worn golden couch
I smell the outdoors-fresh pine trees
and hear the brook-water-trickle . . .
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February 01, 2008 07:11 AM EST --
I wanted
to beat him
beat him to within an inch of his life
I wanted him to feel
this pain and suffering
we all stood here and felt now
But how could I demonstrate
the mental anguish
. . .
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January 25, 2008 07:01 AM EST --
I watch as my dear father shuffles laboriously across the bumpy ice. I agitate with false starts towards him and then back away for I want to carry him to saftey but dare not touch him.
He winces with . . .
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January 25, 2008 07:06 AM EST --
I made a joke
(at least it made me laugh)
in my email to "bro"
but as he read it
in some dinky shack
in Chad
he didn't think it was funny
He doesn't understand
if I don't . . .
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February 05, 2008 07:08 AM EST --
I lit up another cigarette and stared out the window. Even at 11 pm, rue Richlieu was still noisy. Young couples laughing as they left their flats to join friends at their favorite bistro or club. But . . .
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April 18, 2009 09:31 PM EDT --
I Don’t want to stay, I don’t want to go
It wasn’t bad
His mind had just taken a
Vacation
And his kidney had shut down
And there was a sudden
Clot in the lung
But it wasn’t anything they couldn’t . . .
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February 01, 2008 07:02 AM EST --
"A brave man!" we all thought as my father, seated in this tiny room with seven others crammed into it, seated in a wheel chair, explained his "exit plan". The palliative care team . . .
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March 05, 2008 08:41 PM EST --
I'm sure there was a proper name for the room. But for us it was a bedroom, siesta room, Crapette playing room, obligatory letters to home before swimming room and once even a dining room. To me, . . .
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January 25, 2008 07:04 AM EST --
I hate the idea
but I do it anyway
swallowing the dream flavored
"sleep aid"
I do this each night as
I have decided that
if I can "Just Sleep", I will
get through this
I . . .
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April 18, 2009 09:21 PM EDT --
April Fools
I wish there had been a
Been a fence to keep us out
The fluttering of the white
Privacy
Curtain
Was not enough
I was committed
And couldn’t get away
If only the curtain
Had . . .
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January 20, 2008 08:57 PM EST --
I awake in the night
a heavy object
pushing on my chest
I breathe, but barely
laboring to work the muscles
that allow my breath
I look around me and
in the shadows I see a dresser
a drawer is . . .
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May 13, 2008 08:38 PM EDT --
I walked
No, hopped from rock to rock
My attention only on the next
Spot
I would place my foot
This one jiggled
Throwing my life off balance
And I slipped into the
Darkness below
It . . .
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