Anger makes your life — and your body —
attitude
Victorious
This smile isn’t a lack of pain. It’s a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.
Hoofprints
Fortune is a centaur —
half man, half luck
Girl-heart
her smiling girl-heart danced
behind the grey, grey hair
scrambled blackout poetry created from Enid Bagnold,
Pierced flight
thorns and stings
and those such things
just make stronger
our angel wings
P.S. Thank you to everyone who has written letting me know that Katya Elise Henry got a tattoo of this poem. Honestly, I didn’t know who she was and had to look it up. But that’s pretty cool, and a nice tattoo.
Fallen
Has man fallen?
You, man, arise…
—James Oppenheim, “1914—And After,” War and Laughter, 1916
Shared wonder
Health is a relationship between you and your body.
Hard to escape
Even happiness worries sometimes.
Carrying
pick out your fears
worries, anger, and hate
from the bag of stones you carry
and love, find yourself lifted by
the wings of featherweight faith
Of letting be
It’s not all about healing yourself — it’s just as importantly about letting yourself heal.
Westerly
sunset casts shadows
yet we see only colors
and glorious light
Emanate
You don’t always have to pray for something, or to someone — you can just simply pray.
Inner peace
Even when life isn’t good on the outside, you have an option to make it good from the inside out.