Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, and this is for Mike. Mike was another homeschool alum like me. He was a college classmate and my friend. I want so much for the homeschool community to recognize that we have pain and problems also. Not just public school kids. I want people like Mike to findContinueContinue reading “Poem: For Mike”
Category Archives: Poetry + Fiction
Poem: Poetry is how I pray
Southeast Texas has the best fog ever. This photo is from outside the Walmart in Port Arthur. One of my goals for 2016 is to write a new spoken word poem every month. Here’s March’s poem. I read this spoken word poem at Beaumont’s First Baptist Church Sunday, April 17 during an open mic serviceContinueContinue reading “Poem: Poetry is how I pray”
Poem from 2012: Love Letter
So this weekend I went to Dallas to see The Thorn again. Every year, another part of me heals as I re-process and work through childhood trauma surrounding Easter. Here’s some of my thoughts from the first time I went to the Thorn. Originally posted as a Facebook note, April 8, 2012: For those ofContinueContinue reading “Poem from 2012: Love Letter”
Poem: Interoffice Memo
Another poem from 2013. Let me never become an interoffice memoshuffled about under somebody’s grocery list,stamped “confidential,”passed back to quality controlonly to be drenched with coffee on the manager’s desk. Interoffice memosare stuffy and overconfident,assuming their technicalitiesabsorb the attention of our braincells.But really, the words flow in one ear,travel through the vestibulocochlear nerveinto our mindsContinueContinue reading “Poem: Interoffice Memo”
Poem: Prayer
I wrote my first poem when I was 15 years old. I’d always wanted to write poetry. I feel things very deeply. I tried to write my first poem when I was 12, but I thought every poem had to rhyme. I was homeschooled in Christian fundamentalism, so I thought deviating from traditional poetry wasContinueContinue reading “Poem: Prayer”
Eleanor Skelton 