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Human experiences. Life revealed in verse.
June 29, 2026
Unshakeable
A meditation on the incorruptible center of self that remains as falsehood falls away—and the freedom of grounding identity in what needs no outcome to remain true.
Read this poemJune 28, 2026
Brave
A reflection on courage as the choice to move toward what frightens us—and discover through experience that fear does not have to determine what we can do.
Read this poemJune 27, 2026
Self Compassion
A practice of releasing self-blame, forgiving my humanity, and reclaiming inherent worth from the mistakes, sacrifices, and suffering I once mistook for evidence against it.
Read this poemJune 26, 2026
Power
A reflection on power as self-sovereignty: the capacity to choose and act toward change without making our own empowerment dependent upon the outcome.
Read this poemJune 25, 2026
Full Circle
A return to where a love story began, 725 days later, discovering that sometimes greater love means releasing what cannot meet us and discovering ourselves anew in the return.
Read this poemJune 24, 2026
Indestructible
A reckoning with years of accumulated loss, trauma, and upheaval—and the hard-won discovery of something at my center that has survived it all.
Read this poemJune 23, 2026
Being Honest
An honest account of grief returning, growth moving in cycles, and the quiet importance of coming back after we falter.
Read this poemJune 21, 2026
Peaceful Now
A quiet reflection on peace as something we may not need to find, but rather create enough stillness to notice.
Read this poemJune 20, 2026
Dawning Understanding
A reflection on the gentle relief that can come with understanding—when meaning illuminates what happened without needing to justify it.
Read this poemJune 19, 2026
Sex
A meditation on sex as sacred intimacy: an embodied ritual of vulnerability, pleasure, surrender, and encounter with self through another.
Read this poemJune 18, 2026
Touch Deprivation
A raw reflection on longing for touch while my body still experiences vulnerability as danger—and the exhaustion of needing what I cannot yet receive.
Read this poemJune 17, 2026
Betrayal
A reckoning with self-sacrifice, unmet reciprocity, and the deepest betrayal of all: continuing to abandon myself in service of everyone else.
Read this poemJune 17, 2026
Manifesting (by the Books)
A playful reframing of manifestation through the language of contracts, where feeling sets the terms, faith makes the commitment, and choices are how the price is paid.
Read this poemJune 16, 2026
Lost and Found
A reflection on what profound loss can reveal: what remains, what was never truly lost, and the deeper integrity we may find beneath what is gone.
Read this poemJune 15, 2026
Resistance
A reflection on the resistance that can follow meaningful change, and the resolve required to hold a boundary when old patterns push back.
Read this poemJune 14, 2026
New Rules
A personal manifesto for replacing inherited rules of self-sacrifice, obligation, and restraint with boundaries, self-trust, freedom, and chosen responsibility.
Read this poemJune 13, 2026
Melancholy
A compassionate reflection on melancholy as an invitation to slow down, feel what remains unfelt, and hold the weary parts of ourselves.
Read this poemJune 12, 2026
Wild Joy
An exuberant search for wild joy—in nature, creation, the body, and ultimately everywhere we become willing to look for it.
Read this poemJune 11, 2026
Neptune
A meditation on dreams, intuition, and illusion—and learning to honor what I feel without mistaking feeling for certainty.
Read this poemJune 10, 2026
Optimizing Optimism
A reflection on growth as a practice of humble reflection, generous correction, and kind redirection.
Read this poemJune 10, 2026
Perfectionism
A playful critique of perfectionism and the way its impossible standards can obscure the beauty of what is real, irregular, and alive.
Read this poemJune 9, 2026
Fate
A reflection on fate, agency, and the humility of participating fully in a life we can never entirely control.
Read this poemJune 8, 2026
Mirror
A meditation on seeing and being seen, and the uncertain boundary between encountering ourselves and encountering another.
Read this poemJune 7, 2026
Can you feel
A meditation—inspired by nature—on the freedom of being fully present in our own nature.
Read this poemJune 6, 2026
The Weight
A reflection on the difficult weight of choosing alignment over possibility, and refusing to build a life upon what is not yet real.
Read this poemJune 5, 2026
Sole-mate
A reflection on becoming my own first beloved without denying the need, desire, or possibility of loving others.
Read this poemJune 4, 2026
Feral
A fierce reclamation of instinct, freedom, and self-authority after a lifetime spent enduring the cages of conformity.
Read this poemJune 3, 2026
Right now
A brief affirmation of our capacity to change, grounded in the transformation already happening within us each moment.
Read this poemJune 3, 2026
Wound Cleaning
A reflection on the painful work of healing, and the difference between the festering of a dirty wound and the pain of finally cleaning it.
Read this poemJune 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 2, 2026
Unbecoming
A reckoning with the identities, expectations, and illusions that had to die for me to remember the wholeness beneath them.
Read this poemJune 2, 2026
Universe
A tenderly amused meditation on nonduality, imagining existence as a parental Universe patiently teaching us that it expresses and experiences itself through us.
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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