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Let no one tell you how to live

Let no one tell you how to live;It’s on that day you die a bit.Love is yours to take and … More

#triolet, authenticity, Freedom

Insides Out

I want to live with Insides Out / Is ever too much Out in doubt?

authenticity, fake, real

sexualdread

Out there is a world / I can choose to inhabit;

authenticity, dread, Facing Fears, fear, honesty, kink, openness, polyamory

new

trust me – my new was harder.

#haiku, #tanka, authenticity, being, haiku, tanka

the wedding lamp

No more does night descend with dread. Who knew you’d light a lamp when asked? I fall into your arms widespread; ‘Tis time to see my head and heart be wed.

authenticity, trust, villanelle, wholeness

Sonnet XXIV – Perfect Pain

I know it lies with me to find my cure; Won’t please the masses – never perfect be.

authenticity, integrity, perfect, perfection, perfectionism, pleasing

WWRBD? – Velvet Rage Skill #1

Our hearts tell the truth, even when what it has to say scares the shit out of us.

Alan Downs, authenticity, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Skills for Leading an Authentic Life, The Velvet Rage, WWJD

The Velvet Rage – Pre-Pride Ponderings

“Straight people don’t get a Pride Month!” Exactly.

Alan Downs, authenticity, Pride, pride month, shame, Skills for Leading an Authentic Life, The Velvet Rage

superhuman

I used to dream of invisibility… or flight.

authenticity, flying, Invisibility, Invisible Man, superman, superpower, vulnerability

honesty – #SoCS

Honesty is hardly ever heard, and mostly what I need from you.

authenticity, happiness, honesty, integrity, selfishness

crying eyes cast downward

This canvas was not meant to be pierced.

authenticity, choices, damage, integrity, repair, wellness

morose less?

I’ve been challenged to be less morose.

a life worth living, authentic, authenticity, happy, sad

resolved

no longer a fear-panicked youth

#triolet, authenticity, integrity, lies, masks, resolutions, truth

defy the box

Sometimes fate/the Universe/God/biological determinism/behavioral conditioning shines upon you.

authenticity, binary thinking, boxes, boxing day, integrity, labels

SoCW

So, it’s another day where my poetry fails to flow, but instead of retreating to the handy haiku, I’ve decided … More

authenticity, effort, mindfulness, presence, sufficiency

emergence

How long can that caterpillar stay in chrysalis before it dies and can never emerge?

authenticity, butterfly, chysalis, coming out, flight, Freedom, Homosexuality, journey, Pride, pupa, pupae, shame, truth, waiting, worry

idiot box

stop changing channels. just turn it off and step out of the idiot box.

#poetry, actor, authenticity, channels, flesh, idiot box, plastic, real, resolved, TV
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