Choose YOU
You have a choice to stay away from negativity. You have a choice to change for the better. All of us have made mistakes, all of us have been hurt, it is up to you how you would like to move forward.
Shock
That moment when I looked
dozens of soldiers - just like me –
running inside the building,
And I froze.
My legs didn’t move.
My mind couldn’t make sense. I stayed back.
Tears
Not just drops of salty water
but remnants of painful slaughter
of heart and the soul perhaps the psyche
of a person who did not know the
way to beg for consideration or mercy
Battlefield
Battlefield is a spoken word poetry written and shared by Merry Princess Joe to The Ugly Writers under the theme After The Storm for the month of June. Battlefield I’m stuck between wanting you to stay and wanting…
The absurdity of life
Humans are truly monotonous. On a broad scale, we are doing the same thing that our ancestors used to do: eat, sleep, and reproduce. There are no advancements on that front.
What Ails You
It is a feeling of possessiveness. The idea of having that person is totally joyful and you never care about what really is reality. Keeping that person within your reach is one thing that you first establish.
Gypsy Cabin Blues
Holding tight to her green and arid sierra shawls,
she peers over a fresco valley set in leprechaun gold.
Like a megalithic Buddha she rests on a boulder's shoulder
beneath a thulian sky lit by a gingerline disco sun.
Our Hearts
Our Hearts is a poem written and shared by John Krux to The Ugly Writers under the theme After The Storm for the month of June. Our Hearts And now, after countless memories, heartbreaks, and tears, the only…
Trading A Soul
Home is in your arms.
And warmth is in your laughs
Right where peace lost its charms.
And logic laid down its arms.
Rejection
She looked up at me and smiled.
I smiled back.
Or was I the first to smile
and she smiled back?
I don’t remember.
Love Struck
I will love you behind the cameras
When nobody's looking and it's just us
I will love you
And only you
With not much that I have
But with this much that I can
Who I Am
One of the core concepts of the Enneagram is that each type embodies both virtues and vices and that there is a redemptive path of integration or a destructive path of disintegration available to us depending on whether we embrace and develop our virtues or give in to our vices.