Melting Moons & Threading Stars
They paint magenta over black skies
or pale blue over white clouds.
Some painters dab their brushes
in magenta skies others in clouds.
Juice Box Girl
somewhere stranded
someone's balcony
memories undefined,
you will find me there
stretched naked, doing
the Electric Slide,
taking morning selfies
Grandma
I regret every single day I made her cry. I regret being a stubborn kid. But most of all, I regret not spending her last hours with her. You know, the idea of losing her hurts a lot. But that very moment that I lost her, I lost a huge part of my life. A portion of me died with her.
Native I am, Cocopa (v3)
I am a mother, proud.
My native numbers are few.
In my heart digs many memories
forty-one relatives left in 1937.
When The Tears Fell
When the tears fell the first time
I wiped them as soon as they touched my cheeks
When they fell again
I wasn’t as quick to tend to the tears
Jennifer McMahon- The Drowning Kind New Book Release
While admitting that she never had thought of narrating her own audiobooks, many commented that her voice was incredibly soothing as she finished reading two amazing excerpts from “The Drowning Kind”.
An Evening With Dan Levy
The University of Iowa Lecture Series proudly hosted An Evening With Dan Levy via Zoom on Friday evening, April 9th, 2021. Advertised as a free offering online, 96,000 people expressed interest prior to the event. The servers crashed throughout the first 15 minutes, which not only delayed the evening but left many Lecture Series hopefuls discouraged and unable to tune in.
Book Review: This Could Be About Either Of You by Anna Long
"This Could Be About Either Of You" is a modern collection of poems curated in a way that would let the readers feel they are part of the author's fictional journey.
Weaponizing Change: A Cultural Déjà vu
Victim culture or victimology is real. It is the new culture and the bottomless magazine of the weaponized change gun. Change is essential. It is the law that governs the world just as death is inevitable.
LIGHTS, CAMERA & ACTION
There are many movies that literally change our lives, our vision, our perspective, our thinking, and our intuition. Bollywood movies are the ones that change our way of life.
Shadows of Mystery
Shadows of Mystery is a poem written by Shareyld de Guia and shared with The Ugly Writers under the theme The Games We Play for the month of April. Shadows of Mystery I have two faces but with…
Try Not To Cry
Some steps you leap
others you step and reap.
Some jumps you miss
other’s you fall into.
Waiting
You know it's crazy to think that I am allowing myself to get hurt while I have the chance to live. Cause I am waiting for a simple confirmation that there is no chance between us and that my part on your story is over.
DEAL
Drake's heart shattered into pieces. He even saw Jade receiving money from Lance. It's heartbreaking to know that he realized Jade's importance to him too late, but what broke him the most was he was played with by Jade.
The Word Sorry Is Not Enough
You can disappoint others and most especially yourself,
The guilt is within you and it can be the reason
to stop being motivated by the passion you have.
You blame yourself for making mistakes over and over again.
You think of your not really on this path,
Like you just trying to fit in.