Becoming Her
There was a woman I greatly admired She was caring creative self-confident daring She was smart and had a career She completed herself as a wife and mother while I cowered and cringed filled with fear For me risks weren’t an option Then I began to come into my own The process was slow I married a man who believed in my growth My children were the challenging kind and mothering them made me stronger I went back to school found a job that I love I have friends who are like sisters Words flow joyously from my pen In the mirror I now see her***
Ride Of A Lifetime
Unexpected
with voluptuous roar
thundering
the dam breaks
and the river
forever held back
is rushing
seizing branches and leaves
sucking me
into a vortex
where lost memories
spinning
fall
to the bottom
and shadow sounds
meet their end
Suddenly
wild water
spits me free
and in my craft
running rapids
I purposefully
dig my paddle
into a torrent
of poems
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