Heather: Favorites

Jan 2023 Heather

William J Donovan

Christ don't live in churches.
    He lives in the slums and prisons,
    grungy dive bars and crack houses.
    He offers hope to the hopeless
    and direction to the lost souls.
    Christ doesn't sleep in church pews
    he sleeps on park benches and grates.
    his blood is cheap wine communion
    on city streets his body stale bread
    from the soup kitchens for the poor.
    He lives where he's most needed;
    then and there and here and now.

Jan 2023 Heather

Fractal

Jan 2023 Heather

Ciel Noir

Fractal

we are an infinite                regress
    of reflections and          refractions
    of actions and        reactions
         complex       fractions
of interference     patterns
and mathematical    interactions
intricately intersecting    connections
   branching on   tracks
through the     confusing   profusion
of this soothing     illusion   we create
          of reality     being a   place
tessellating in parallel  space
               like an  abstract fractal
in an interdimensional tesseract
reflecting back on itself forever

Jan 2023 Heather

Silver Spoon

Jan 2023 Heather

Kassiani

Silver Spoon

My body has forgotten what it is to be calm
I wake at 2 AM
3 AM
4 AM
Heart racing, racing, racing
Hurtling out of my
Cleaved ribs
Dizzy from trembling like an
Overwound spring
The potential energy buzzing through my skull
Every nerve ready to strike
Ready to fire
Ready to set me ablaze
I howl into my pillow
Until my lungs fracture
Until I'm coughing up soot
From the scorching frenzy coiling beneath my skin
The primal need to hold someone's hand through the dark
Has me twitching like an addict
Has me sweating like withdrawal
Has me wondering why I never had the sense
To shield my fragile ribcage
The terrible thing about having
A heart full of flowers
Is most people aren't gentle
And human instinct is to cut daisies
Rather than tend the garden
And I
Foolish and tender-hearted
Will keep licking affection off knives
Because I've never seen a silver spoon

Quickly jotted down this morning.

Jan 2023 Heather

Quote 141🌷

Jan 2023 Heather

Solange Loe-Sack-Sioe

Quote 141🌷

Sometimes in life you have
to change your ways
to see another season of trees.

Shell ✨🐚

Jan 2023 Heather

Echo

Jan 2023 Heather

Ciel Noir

Echo

Every action
and reaction

Level and endeavor

In the end
it's all just echoes
that reverberate forever
ever

Everything we know
and everything
we say and do

In the end
it's all just memories

and I'll remember you

Jan 2023 Heather

?

Jan 2023 Heather

Ciel Noir

?

where did we come from
stones and stars
and why are we the way we are
will we all learn the truth one day
does anybody know the way

is the light on the other side
alive
a dagger of the mind
a warning sign
a glitch in time
why is it so bright
who decides

will we still fight when we are beat
are we a secret we can keep
will we know if we go too deep
is life a language we can speak

will we live on beyond the Sun
where to
and what will we become
we know no matter which direction
we will have so many questions

Jan 2023 Heather

Silence

Jan 2023 Heather

Ciel Noir

Silence

I wonder who is watching us
and where
and with what eyes

shimmering like an oasis
in the desert of the sky

whispering into the darkness
a strange symphony of light

trembling with sound and fury
in the silence of the night

Jan 2023 Heather

reflection

Jan 2023 Heather

Ciel Noir

reflection

I am what I call I
and I am limited
bilateral
a labyrinth of memories
a galaxy of minerals

I am what I call I
infinitesimal
ephemeral
a dream of being separate
from all the other chemicals

I am what I call I
and I am living
biological
a symphony
of static electricity and molecules

but when I look behind
the many mirrors of my mind
I am the world
I am the sky
I am more than what I call I