Polyamory is difficult for some folks to conceptualize and impossible for many to embrace. A poem was shared with me this morning and i sat with it for a moment and smiled… it is here (A New Constellation by Marge Piercy). Those of us within the poly community call our arrangements many things: tribe, family, nest, polycule. … Continue reading
A LEMON (by Pablo Neruda) Out of lemon flowers loosed on the moonlight, love’s lashed and insatiable essences, sodden with fragrance, the lemon tree’s yellow emerges, the lemons move down from the tree’s planetarium … We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions creation’s original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive, so the freshness lives … Continue reading
There is a man i will never know and i am tangled up in the emotions of others. i am sympathetic… empathetic, even… but once-removed from their grief. As is my way – when conflicted by my emotions – i turn to books, to music, to the wisdom and beauty that flows from others to try … Continue reading
When I recently spent an interesting day in the middle of a storm, I was trying to place a bit of a poem that kept running through my mind and then escaping me… The sky was getting inky blue, the clouds were swirling and all I could remember was, “the sky is darkening like a … Continue reading
It’s rather likely that those who know me well are puzzled by my rainbow rose gravatar image. It’s a bit “cutesy” for wawbat. Rainbow colors? They likely get that significance, but a rose? You see, wawbat never has been a rose-sorta-girl. I’m more wildflowers, or no flowers, lol. It makes me sad to think of … Continue reading
