Golden Wer

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How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?

If I were to describe myself to someone who can’t see me, I wonder whether they’d see the vision — or hear it in my voice — if I’d instead describe people with whom I’ve kept company, then admit my shame over not having been even remotely careful.

I collect keys..and the like
Cowardly

In the night I create
I skulk nigh
Leave doors unlocked
Then explain
‘Twas not I

I tear mirrors…from concrete
Angrily

In the abstract I create
I demur
Leave laughing
Then I stare
‘Twas once her

Over My Head

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What’s the story behind your nickname?

The story of my nickname cannot be spoken of, except to say, the name bespeaks eternity.

What for, to light a candle?
What?

Would that someone’d say!

I found no well-reasoned choice
To light one, yesterday

Know, the tears, the sweat, the soul?
Ghosts!

Sweep it all away?

Time will never come to pass
When these stray from the fray

Soldiering

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Of them
Didn’t I wish
Didn’t I know

Oceans away
None stars to petition
None shores to defend

Ancient ancestors
Why did you leave
Why am I abandoned

Great Grandmothers
I will remember
I will resolve

Remade, I
A Galloglass now
A Hoplite hero

Stranger

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What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life?

There is much pain in These Days, and Prayer to comfort it is all I know to devise.

Where are my words
All of the aches, and achings
Brought to my body to bear
Vanquish them
Except to say, Amen.

Expectant: A Haiku

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What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?

Adding a fuchsia flower, tucked behind my ear — symbolizing I’m at peace — would be more than a small improvement in my life.

If I be sixty
‘Twas the Flower in my hair
The Peace in my path

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, Fiery Photography LLC; “Woodruff”

Plymouth Court

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What is your career plan?

While I do not pretend to know the plan, I know the organizational structure…#Partnership, or bust.

I and Atlas
Recreate
Play away livelong day
Summon life to midnight

Atlas and I
Conqueror and Consecrated

And I
And Atlas
Plymouth, our rock
Shoulder together
A boundless road

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, Fiery Photography; “Findings”

Here For It

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What are your favorite emojis?

My favorite emojis symbolize grit✅, light⚡️, commitment💞, and care👏🏻👏🏻.

Here
And, how the day demands
Me
Steadies my feet and hands

Light
It will not leave me sleep
Walk
Prove what night cannot keep

Hold
All that God’s plan entails
Life!
Complex and happy trails

All-in

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What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

We all have secret skills — for some of us, they’re born of adversity. I secretly grab and even steal moments of time, call them out, and showcase them, that no one forgets how important those moments were.

No such thing, I say,
A sunset
A half-heart
A wrong place
A right time
These are mere constructs of mankind

Somewhere, there’s with us,
A new day
A dream afire
A precision
A god-wink
All omnipresent…don’t you think?

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com, “MMOB”

Agent: A Haiku

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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

These days, when I sense my own negative feelings rising up, I am thankful that I long ago began building a habit that has made me quicker to take agency of those feelings than I was in years past — I own them instead of deflecting them, so I can process and disburse them.

I’ve been the pilot
Of many a flight of thought
Bound for no-man’s land

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae; FieryPhotography.com

In Triplicate

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Will I, Earth, Mother…remember this toil upon my terrain, once it’s crumbled
Once fallen?

Will the welling up in our main artery…a bisected, panic-stricken, slow-motion pain
Calm, then?

Will I, will we…now with only light again — separated from darkness
Become stars?

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com; “Tempera Stars on Blacktop”