Category: LGBTQIA+

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count. And I found myself needing to change it recently to add details.

As you can see I made quite a lot of progress this week. unfortunately Much of it was yesterday and today I am feeling like I have overdone.

I am still healing. Yesterday I felt better than I have in at least the last three years. So, I fixed breakfast. I body doubled so my son could get some dishes done. I sat with him to help him do a chore I promised to do myself 3 months ago and flaked on. I was up and out of the bed all day. Which felt so good. And now I am in so much pain that just sitting here waiting for the meds to kick in is excruciating.

I will be moving slower today. I am likely to be napping at least some time today. And I have to give myself that grace because surgery was just a little bit more than a week ago. I want my body to heal.

However, I am feeling better.  So, that means that the surgery is worth it.

Now, I Do realize that my adjustments will probably open up questions. so I am not doing a book review tomorrow…instead I will post a Q&A ASk me anything day. see you tomorrow.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 29

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2026 PAD Challenge Day 29

My Response Is: 

Here I sit for all to hear
Singing my history,
In hopes that I am not the only one
that learns lessons from it.

for forgotten history is repeated,
and repeated history is nothing but tears.
So, I will sing it as loudly as my voice allows.
I will sing it as often as I may...
And I will hope that I am strong enough
to keep the memories alive
and history at bay.

Stepping out of my comfort zone

Okay, I am the original wallflower…but I signed up for an online poetry reading. I don’t step out of my comfort zone often but there is supposed to be other poets reading….the event listing on Facebook is here.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 13

2026 PAD Challenge Day 13

my response is:

her movements were
       hypnotic 
using only her hips she 
       spoke volumes.

they call it belly dancing 
but she made it hypnosis,
calling me to her,
creating a desire, 
              that felt so forbidden.
I wanted to watch her move 
until the whole world ended.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 12

2026 PAD Challenge Day 12

my response is :

the treasure I buried,
in the time capsule 
wasn't something anyone 
else wanted to add.

others added pictures 
and bits of themselves,
I added words bound bright.

For when the capsule is dug up 
and all of the treasure is found,
I want to speak to the future of 
knowledge forgotten and thoughts 
profound.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 11

2026 PAD Challenge Day 11

my response is:

perhaps it is the universe's joke
played on my life that I keep ending up 
walking down the roads to nowhere.

I end up finding a way to somewhere 
but not in the normal ways.
I have no tether to the right road 
and truthfully I don't know if I want one,
for I have learned more from being lost 
than I ever could if I followed some plan.

I will gladly walk those roads to nowhere 
and find myself lost and learning 
than to follow the plan and be 
                               miserable.

BTW I posted a poem a couple of days ago and I said I was not sure if it belonged in kissed by Verse. I think it does not. I am going to open a new volume for it and this one…

2026 PAD Challenge Day 9

2026 PAD Challenge Day 9

my response:

Let us live together
as shadow people,
outside of society 
outside of the binary 
outside of the world 
              in its current state.

it was tried in the sixties 
as communes but again
did human nature invade.

I do not want to be human 
I do not want to be afraid
I just want to exist in my life 
im my own way.

Fae Corps Publishing Pad Challenge Day 8

Fae Corps Publishing Pad Challenge Day 8
2026 PAD Challenge Day 8

Here’s My response:

I see the rage monster 
you try to hide,
And I wonder if the monster
as you see it 
is not but an injured animal within.

Injured animals strike
at anything within reach.
And as I refuse to leave your side...
Well perhaps you are not the monster
you think you are...

*note Right now this is sitting in the Kissed by Verse volume. I am not positive it fits the theme but I am also unsure it does not. My mind may change before publication of that volume.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 6

2026 PAD Challenge Day 6

okay I set up the prompts and I already did this one once because it was stuck in my head but I really am trying to do the pad challenge using the Fae Corps Publishing prompts so …

my response is :

daisy chains 
tied us together
in flowers and paper

childhood memories 
tree trimmings 
and moments in the world 

each one precious 
each one unique 
a chance to be 
young eternally

Acceptance