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Human experiences. Life revealed in verse.
June 2, 2026
Get through
A reminder that moving through difficulty does not require grace or perfection—only a direction and the willingness to keep going.
Read this poemJune 1, 2026
Done
A reflection on endings, grief, and allowing what is over to remain behind you as you continue forward.
Read this poemMay 31, 2026
Creating Pleasure
A sensual exploration of creativity as pleasure, emergence, and the process of discovering ourselves within what we create.
Read this poemMay 30, 2026
Mutation
A reflection on the difference between transformation and integration—and honoring the time it takes to learn how to live beyond the change.
Read this poemMay 29, 2026
Friction
A meditation on the paradox of friction, exploring how the same force can hinder, hold, support, and delight.
Read this poemMay 28, 2026
Boundary quiet
A brief reflection on the peace that often follows choosing ourselves with decisive integrity.
Read this poemMay 28, 2026
Soft
An invitation to recognize the quiet strength of meeting a harsh world without surrendering the gentle qualities that make us most deeply human.
Read this poemMay 27, 2026
Fucking done
A fierce declaration of self-reclamation, refusing to surrender authenticity, freedom, or the life that is mine to live.
Read this poemMay 27, 2026
Yearning
A remark upon the paradox of yearning, where hope and longing become inseparable companions on the path toward what we most deeply desire.
Read this poemMay 26, 2026
Flip the script
A reflection on curiosity, transformation, and the freedom that comes from questioning what we think we know.
Read this poemMay 25, 2026
All for love
A meditation on uncertainty, meaning, and choosing love as the principle that guides my life.
Read this poemMay 24, 2026
Free will
A reflection on free will, responsibility, and the transformative power of choosing differently.
Read this poemMay 24, 2026
Where to start
A gentle reminder that meaningful change begins exactly where we are, one small step at a time.
Read this poemMay 23, 2026
The Wait
A reflection on the strange tension between trusting what we sense is coming and not knowing when—or whether—it will arrive.
Read this poemMay 22, 2026
Sick of it
A declaration of release, refusing to keep making a home for the burdens that no longer belong within us.
Read this poemMay 21, 2026
The Sun
A reflection on hope, resilience, and discovering that the light we seek has been alight within us all along.
Read this poemMay 20, 2026
Blocked
A raw reflection on the exhaustion of feeling constrained and the fierce longing to reclaim agency over one's own life.
Read this poemMay 19, 2026
Sailing Through Uncertainty
A poem about navigating the unknown.
Read this poemMay 19, 2026
The Test
A reflection on the trials that strip away illusion, revealing the enduring strength of what is genuinely true.
Read this poemMay 18, 2026
Amusing
A reflection on inspiration, imagination, and the quiet courage of devoting ourselves to what truly calls us.
Read this poemApril 24, 2026
The words
A poem about language, memory, feeling, and what waits beneath the words.
Read this poemApril 23, 2026
Guess What?!
A playful reflection on delight, wonder, and remembering that the world is more alive than we often notice.
Read this poemMarch 9, 2026
I Often Dream of Apocalypse
A reflection on collapse, fear, responsibility, and choosing to become a source of light in despairing times.
Read this poemMarch 7, 2026
Embers in the Snow
A poem about winter, rest, hope, and the quiet preparation before renewal.
Read this poemJanuary 23, 2026
Why Pain?
A reflection on pain as an invitation toward wholeness, revealing the parts of ourselves still longing to come home.
Read this poemOctober 20, 2025
Hermit Crab
A reflection on stewardship, agency, and remembering that even small acts matter.
Read this poemSeptember 22, 2025
little bit
A brief reflection on faith, possibility, and committing to hope.
Read this poemSeptember 11, 2025
reprieve
A brief meditation on rest, enoughness, and the quiet relief of allowing nothing to be required.
Read this poemSeptember 9, 2025
Dying to Live
A poem about fear, self-betrayal, and becoming more fully oneself.
Read this poemSeptember 7, 2025
Roses
A meditation on desire, attachment, and the difference between beholding beauty and attempting to possess it.
Read this poemSeptember 5, 2025
Soul Weary
A poem about exhaustion, transformation, depletion, and the longing for rest.
Read this poemSeptember 3, 2025
Nonconforming
A reflection on identity, authenticity, and the liberating impossibility of fitting inside categories.
Read this poemSeptember 2, 2025
Trophy Case
A reflection on failure, self-compassion, and finding something sacred in the imperfect act of showing up.
Read this poemApril 2025
What to do?
A poem about allowing collapse to dismantle the structures that limit our freedom.
Read this poemJune 30, 2024
Shock
A poem exploring the fragmentation, disbelief, and impossible reality of trauma entering consciousness.
Read this poemApril 2024
Dying Alone
A poem about loneliness, fear, worthiness, and the longing to be known.
Read this poemMarch 2024
Hopes and Wishes
A poem about yearning, numbness, hope, and the exhaustion of wanting what has not yet arrived.
Read this poemMarch 2024
Soulmate
A poem exploring partnership, devotion, and the kind of love that grows through ordinary life.
Read this poemMarch 2024
Thorns
A poem about longing, protection, pain, and reaching for what feels just beyond touch.
Read this poemJanuary 26, 2024
For Papa, David Allen Dillon
A memorial poem honoring the life, character, and legacy of my grandfather.
Read this poemJune 21, 2023
Lightning Mind
A poem reflecting on consciousness through the metaphor of a thunderstorm.
Read this poemDecember 10, 2022
Fear loses its power
A poem about fear, identity, grief, and choosing love over division.
Read this poemOctober 22, 2022
In-Between Spaces
A poem about presence and the way life unfolds in the present moment.
Read this poemJune 15, 2022
Life Lines
A poem about the marks life leaves upon and within us.
Read this poemMarch 27, 2022
Good things grow
A short poem about growth in imperfect conditions.
Read this poemApril 23, 2019
Spring
A reflection on the quiet miracle of renewal and the hidden continuity between endings and new beginnings.
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