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The poet in me and you

ABOUT ME

About

POET. ARTIST. YOGI.

I am a business owner, mother and grandmother, poet, artist, yogi and golfer. I love words. I love the connections of words and the conversational nature of reality. I have been saved by poetry many times in my life.

MY ART

Art

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MY POETRY

Your Friendship

Sometimes someone else can say a word that spills inside your gut as if your own eulogy melts and you live inside your heart dropping and...

Misunderstood

I wish you could touch the truth inside my brain or feel the blue shelter of perspiration as I walk inside your slashed sentences...

I KNOW

You and I Witness love Without changing the way we smile As a mirror traces a stare At times our love Smells like mud Heats my tongue And...

LOST SUMMER

My place is not yours it hides in the blush of summer every year it climbs in the clouds on winged bliss as laced ferns bend as tall...

SLEEP

I fall softly

to begin again

I feel the string line under me

with ties so tight

my thoughts can't find my breath

tugging the mattress

like lonely clay

As I wear the day over my eyes

My humanness drags and thickens

stones in my bones

empty echos and slow jerks

I used sound like marshmallows

licking the sheets of my thoughts

to fall into rest

with words and prayers

from the vault of my childhood

MY SPOKEN WORD

Spoken word

Birth - Norah Oulahen

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Original - Norah Oulahen