Life Does Go On Sunshine warms a cold heart left lonely and closed off Color returns to a monochrome life and birds sing their praises A skin is shed and new life is born as if taking steps for the very first time Life does go on Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton – Poetry forContinue reading “Life Does Go On”
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Rebirth – Poem of the Month – December 2021
Rebirth Although feeling dutiful I bear no responsibility for your life, your happiness, your faults I cannot heal you with my kindness My blunted wire cutters useless against the barbed wire of a venomous man-child A pit bull on a pant leg Shaking life from me Gnawing away at my compliant being until reality isContinue reading “Rebirth – Poem of the Month – December 2021”
Daily Haiku – Sat. March 27, 2021
Haiku With dawn a rebirth Light shines on tight flower buds About to blossom Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Downtrodden
Downtrodden Who controls the pecking order of life? Because I’m on the outside looking in Nose against the window like the proverbial stepchild Taking it on the chin Living on the edge of the herd Feeling like the runt of the litter These are the emotions I bear Easy to slip into a depression DraggingContinue reading “Downtrodden”
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