Wild She trudged through the dirtFeet bare against the earthWith a warm, soft breezeCaressing her cheeks.Coming home to yourself is messy,She thought;She feltVolcanic eruptions of emotionBirthing a clarityShe’d been seeking all her life.Sometimes she’d strayedA bit too far onto the path,Mistaking her lifeFor that of someone else +The rocks stung her toesUntil she remembered. She […]
Category: Poetry
Be grounded: on being right where you are (poem)
What does it mean for you to come home to yourself? What does it mean to feel grounded? I can still remember where I was when I wrote this poem, standing in my living room in the breaks between handstands. For much of my life, I’ve often written this way – in the gaps and […]
Tenderness, a revolution: a poem about love
To love is an incredibly revolutionary act. When we think of love, we often think of it as soft, and in our world, ‘soft’ has become synonymous with ‘incompetent.’ We hate on the soft spaces of our bodies, we value grit and resiliency above all else, and we ask men if they’ve ‘gone soft’ on […]
a daring conversation with Courage + Fear (poem)
What does it mean to commit, truly? What does it mean to fully commit to Life? What does it mean to commit, and what are we so afraid of? Why are we so afraid of Life? Questions, Questions, Questions. Sometimes it seems that all I have these days are Questions. There are more Questions than […]
sacred simplicity: a healing in words (poem)
This week, I’ve been exploring the energy of the sacred and what it means to integrate that energy into our everyday lives. I think it’s so much simpler than we often make it out to be – here are some of my explorations on the topic. May these words allow you to see the sacred […]
of the heart: moving towards a heart-centered world (poem)
and when they say we are moving towards a heart-centered world … first, there will be pain. pain, as all that is not heart-centered is revealed and stripped away. there will be the pain of not knowing how such ruthlessness could have existed for so long, the pain of being left in the dark and […]
the dreamer within: a poem for 2021
What does it mean to dream? I wrote this poem a few months ago when I was asking myself this exact question. I think any time we approach a new year, questions often emerge: what are we doing with our lives? What would we like to create for the future? Where are we going and […]