Lessons from a dog and a Writer's insecurity

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Hello Blogoshpere!

Where have I been?! It has taken me entirely too long to get back here. I mean literally. I could not for the life of me figure out my password or email for that matter. It was getting ridiculous! But I figured it out and here I am! YAY!

This month is National poetry month!!! and I'm way behind on the 30 poems for 30 days. I'm not too sure if I can even do 30 but I sure will try!! They'll most likely be rough cuts and unfinished work but at least I'm trying?

Before I get to the two poems I have for you today I would just like to say Grad school is hard. It's hard to focus on, hard to get started on, hard to get through, but anything worth doing usually isn't easy. Am I right? Also, I love Da Poetry Lounge. I haven't been there in MONTHS and it still feels like home. Going there feds my soul and sets a fire under my butt to remind me "Hey! Aren't you a writer too? Where's your work? Why are you slacking?" Anyway, it's time to get to cooking so the next time I go home I have something for the table, because it's a potluck (I never knew really knew how to spell that word till now, disgraceful!). There has to be some give in my take. OK! without further ado! Poem one!

Lessons from a dog

Dear Betsy,

Your ears are too long

You shed far too much

You bark for no reason

You don't always listen

You're a big fatty brat

     'cause I spoil you like that

You're a silly little spaz

     which makes me laugh

Most notably

You bravely run out into the world

though you're tiny and scared.

I wish I were more like you

but slightly more prepared.

That was a fun one to write. Alright, if you're ready for it.... Poem deux... 

A writer's insecurity

I do not like the sound of my own voice

in my mousier years, I didn't know it existed

Am I proud of my voice?

In the confines of my room where I whisper words to corners that echo back my praises,

Yes. Emphatically, YES!

But here, where others ears might listen

Other opinions seem to matter

Where other poems have battled for supremacy

I fear it is not poet enough to stand amongst the rest

It does not crack at the tender moments

It does not raise for emphasis

It does not wreak of strong enough woman battling or hurdling obstacle

I fear it knows only petty love songs

and though I love petty love songs

I wish my voice were larger

So it could move people to tears

Or to action in the name of a just cause like

Love yourself

Fun times! Ok... 30 poems for 30 days. Two down? 28 more to go. 

Thanks for reading y'all!

Greey <3

Onward and Upward

It's February!!

And for the first time in a long time I will not be celebrating Singles Awareness Day!!!

So what has the new year brought? Let's see.

The year of BIGGER BETTER BRIGHTER has ended and what a year that was. Everything truly was bigger better and brighter. I went back to school (and I'm doing well i might add). I met a several interesting people, made a few new friends, Jon Doe came back into my life (dun dun dun!!!!), wasn't able to forgive him (turns out that was for the best). I spent an entire month and a half in HAWAII!!! What an experience that was. I fell in love. Yes, I fell in love!! With an amazing guy who is so good to me and so perfect. It was absurdly unnerving at first but I'm learning to settle into it. I might very well be in the honeymoon stage still and thus profoundly disgustingly in love, BUT I LOVE IT!! I would like very much to stay here because for once I'm not scared! I feel safe, how often does that feeling come along? For me, that's hardly ever.

So what shall the new year hold? Let me tell you!

The year of ONWARD AND UPWARD has begun!!! There's no where to go but up up UP!! The past few years I've been on the way up, it's been difficult to see at times but the progress was there. There have definitely been bumps and bruises and huge massive gashes that bled an awful lot of my soul out but the universe is kind and always gave back. I have, as I have always had, my beautiful ever loving family and close friends. Despite how frustrating they are I'm so grateful to have them all. THUS, onward and upward to an even better future full of possibility, which may also include heartbreak, or ever lasting love. For sure it includes greater strides toward accomplishing my dreams and becoming successful so I have nothing but high hopes for myself and my loved ones and YOU!

Onward and Upward friends!

Take the uncertainty with you because, lets be honest, as scary as it can be it leads to some pretty interseting times.

Till next time!

What loving you has taught me

What loving you has taught me.

I am the jealous type.

If by jealous you mean, you are aliar and have not given me reason to trust you

So forgive me if I take your words with the grain of salt and set them on my open wounds in case I forget what it feels like to believeyour pretty pretty words.

I am needy.

If by that you mean you are absentand I can never tell what I mean to you.

So please, reassure me again that Iam the only woman in your life even though that woman’s facebook cover photobegs to differ.

I am impatient.

But in that you must admit you are cheater.

Bidding me wait a breath longer andthough my lungs are getting stronger my face is turning blue and my fingers aregoing numb and I can’t reach you. Then again, there might not be anyone toreach out to.

I am alone.

In loving you I am alone, along withevery other woman you hum sweet nothings too. We are alone waiting in beds yousometimes come home to. Sadly, alone sometimes feels better than remembering Ilove you.

I love you.

By that I mean I love me - enough tofind the strength to walk away from doubt and fear and a past of jealousy,need, impatience and loneliness. I adore me enough to grow and put my own damnself on a pedestal and praise the woman who could have loved you sounconditionally. I worship me and by that I mean I forgive my faults andglorify my strength because stupidity is sometimes a fault of love, and love isthe ultimate gift.

I am a gift you didn’t deserve.

Murse

Something I've started. It's not done yet but I wanted to post this. If I ever get around to finishing this I think it might be pretty powerful. 

I just realized “MURSE” can only mean man purse because to say that it also means man nurse is to say that only a woman can be a nurse. To say it with a smirk as if laughing at the poor man that wasn’t man enough to be doctor is to laugh in the faces of all the women before me who fought hard to equate themselves to men. 

Slow burn

They say that love is humble. There is no more humbling experience than loving a man incapable of truly loving anyone other than himself. I want to disintegrate into a world in which I never met him, the biggest mistake of my life until this point. Sadly, I'll be left with a lasting memory of you. I will wear it like an open sore in the depths of my being and it will burn with animosity to remind me of him.

Because there is no hate without love I refuse to honor him with such an idea. I refuse to be reminded that I once burned with desire for him. He no more deserves my hatred than he deserves my love or desire, and so I abhor his existence. Though I would not wish it to end, for neither does he deserve my wishes.

In this, I am not a better person. I am vindictive and vengeful. I am fury and anger. But he is no more deserving of my time or emotion. So for now, he is a painful memory, a slow burning in the darkest pits of my history. He is poison I shall put away and not drink anymore.

Love is coming

Love is coming, I smell him over my left shoulder.
It's the odor of man enough to handle my crazy, my weakness, my broken, my strong, my stubborn.
He has been waiting for me to be ready,
but patience was not a virtue he was endowed with.
Like me, he has spent too much time with all the wrong people.
It is time.
Love it coming.

Radio

I just fell in love with myself again. This is something old I haven't posted.. not sure why because I love it! Hope you love it too!! =D

Radio

I want to cry. Not because I’m hurt. Not because of some physical pain that my incredibly clutzy self has managed to inflict and definitely not because some asshole ripped my heart out and proceeded to dance ‘la cucaracha’ on my heart, still palpitating on the floor. Although, that is how I want to feel. I want salt water gushing form my tear ducts. I should be wondering “why did you go?” and “how could you do this to me?” Even though I don’t know who “you” are because I didn’t write the damn song.

I want to hurt so bad that words can’t describe. Every emotion in your mind, body and soul should emanate from your lips to my ears and I should have to choke back the lump as it crescendos from my throat to my eyes. Every syllable or note you utter better make me feel -- something, because I’m tired of this “fuck bitches and hoes go get you money son” bull shit that they play on the radio. Trying to tell me how to dance when all you do is sway or lean back.

Besides that, I don’t want to dance like my leg is broken, because if it was broken I probably wouldn’t dance like that anyway. Matter of fact I’d sit this one out. You know you would too. And since when was it okay to be a jerk? I mean I realize the moves are kind of rad, old school type moves with new school twist, but I swear you’re using the wrong adjective to describe that dance. A ‘jerk’ is a quick sudden movement, or spasmodic, usually involuntary muscular movement; or a contemptibly naïve, fatuous inconsequential person and if you’re the latter you need to change because nobody likes you.

So I listen to oldies, because I want to feel that flutter in my heart from the butterflies in my stomach caused by the fact that I am so in love. But I’m single, still, and I haven’t met anyone that makes me feel that way in a while, a long while.

I turn my ipod on and listen to Boyz 2 Men making love to me through my earphones, Jagged Edge saying goodbye because it’s better for the both of us and 112 explaining how cupid doesn’t lie and yes I’d totally give it a try except that you’re probably taken and I doubt that the quirky dork of a woman that I am is your type.

I blast Celine Dion in my car because that woman can sing. I sing along to musicals, Disney songs and country. Yes, I listen to country, because Rascal Flatts moves me every time I hear how Sara Beth is scared to death because she is a high school senior with cancer. I love that Steve Wariner reminds me that there’s holes in the floor of heaven and I pray that when I get married it rains. Then I’d know that my daddy is watching over me and I would run outside to let his tears embrace me. I know they’d be filled with happiness that I finally found the right man mixed with sadness and regret that he couldn’t physically be here to walk me down the aisle himself.

I listen to Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin and yes, Andrea Bocelli because their music, their voice, their essence lifts my soul and: At last my love has come along and I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you and I think to myself mama may have, papa may have, but God bless the child that’s got his own, That’s got his own.

So I don’t listen to the radio. Matter of fact I’m holding a strike against the radio until artist go back to the feel good music that made us laugh and smile. Go back to music that had a message back to lyrics that made me feel -- anything other than pissed off because I am not okay with my 5 year old nephew singing about how he makes the good girls go bad or how he wants birthday sex. Are you?