Poetry
COLLECTIVE POETRY: ROUND 5
Yesterday, I paired the image below with a few evocative words & invited people on my Rasjacobson Art Page to add an…
GRIEF
NOTE: It’s been a good, long while since I’ve felt a poem screeching to be born. This one wanted out. Photo credit…
Unfinished Business
Did you ever have an unrequited romance? Do you still think of that person? That moment? How long has it been? And how do you let it go?…
Just When I Think I’m Most Alone
tall walls closing in around me, my cardboard world sogging around my ears my eyes, seeing only basements and dirty floors and…
the old man carried piglets
It’s the last day of National Poetry Month, and I find looking at a photograph can inspire. Here’s my last one for…
Adolescence: Another Taste
In honor of National Poetry Month, I’m committing poetry. While other girls, afraid of their own soft hands hid behind masks, under…
Learning To See
April is National Poetry Month, so I’m sharing words in a different way. There was only one crayon I liked in the…
The First Taste
We started with childhood innocence and then we moved to adolescent shame. Now we are getting a little more mature. Since everyone…
Adolescence: Learning Shame
I hadn’t wanted to go. Parents pulled me from ants and pebbles, the solidity of bark, leaf and wall to hear breathing…
An Unconventional List of My Transgressions
Once I shared my fears with you and you supported me. As I move toward Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement,…