Renewal happens in stage leaps
and high dives.
Under the water waits another
life, another world
Listen to the keening of the day.
Spring always comes around again.
The sun doesn’t move but we can.
Don’t be afraid to shimmer
to put on new skin.
Let your heart be hungry
Knowing whatever you become
next will be better.
Shed your claws, your regrets
The air is brighter but the time
finite. Jump into the arms of
the novel of your life while
there still time to live the story.
-Tosha Michelle
This song makes me so nostalgic. If you grew up in the Sourh during the 80s it might just resonate with you too. I sent this to my brother. The second verse is so him. Happy Sunday.❤️
“Oh, you think I’m talking crazy
In a different language you might not understand
Oh, that’s alright
That’s just the kind of life that made me who I am
Just taking my mind on a visit
Back in time ’cause I miss it
You wouldn’t know to love it like I love it
Unless you lived it
And man, I lived it”
Let the sunshine caress you,
as if it were a lover.
Live today like it is everything
you have.
Don’t be afraid to let the wind
bend you.
Feel the tenderness of the garden.
Take in the color, scent,
and aliveness of the flowers blossoming.
Let the sky’s blue direct you.
between what’s your’s and what’s their’s Feel the richness of the grass
under your feet.
Let nature be the cure that relieves you. If only for a moment, be well
-Tosha Michelle
and another song by The Maine Yep, still om that music kick 🙂
Things
1. Four more weeks and I’ll have my Master’s degree. Yes! Graduating with honors too.
2. I’m currently interviewing for criminologist jobs and adjunct professor positions.
3. I’ve been asked to contribute one of my poem to a journal publication and another for a book
4. Planning a trip to Quebec City in the fall. It’s looks like a gorgeous, historic place.
5. On a negative note, tired of the news. Burnt out on it all. Maybe I’ll stay in Canada. Ha!
Overall life is good and I’m please to be finding my footing. Better late than never. F. Scott was right when he said …
“For what it’s worth… it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.“
And now for some music!!
Maine isn’t just a state you know. Check it out and have a wonderful Sunday xx
“In the backseat of the taxi. When you told me we were only two punch-drunk souls all tangled in the wind. And in the backseat when you asked me”Is the sadness everlasting?” I pulled you closer, looked at you and said “Love, I think it is””
We are always in the midst
of letting go of something
or someone.
Untying knots
Finger by finger.
Watching as the leaf whirls
in the wind across the grass
into the air.
The sky opaque resists.
We keep searching for
what might have been,
not realizing the beauty in
what is or could be.
The scent of his cologne.
The strong arm around
your shoulder.
His finger around a lock
of your hair.
The uninterrupted gaze that
you missed while your eyes
were on another.
The gift of rapt attention.
You finally see the light’s
transformation in the beauty
of his eyes.
Looking back no more at
the unintended one.
Just a imitation you
mistook as real.
Only stars in your head
after a fall.
The possibilities of love
become endless when
there’s hope of being love
in return
The eve of a new beginning
Giving birth to the life
you were meant to live.
-Tosha Michelle
Dedicated to Jane and Niles.
On days that should be remembered for
their cold rain, because of you all I see
is the sun breaking through.
You wrap me in a wool coat
and we wander through years of experience-
heartache, loss, hearty elms
and wilted vines.
Our friendship knotted with the binding
thread work of love.
We are the roses on the vines
Always pausing as another
flower is cut from our lives.
Knowing in the end none
of us is spared.
We walk on hand in hand.
The light of day disperses.
The light of our friendship
never shutters, never wavers.
The tint of the years fades details.
Age will eventually tint the nuances
but time can’t touch our souls.
Our heart won’t forget.
Thank you for always being
the one constant sky
I have prayed for.
-Tosha Michelle
Listen to You ve Got a Friend2 by Tosha Michelle 2020 #np on #SoundCloud
If you can’t leap
then fall.
Correlate. Equate.
Arrange. Rearrange
Be an apprentice of the years.
Sometimes breathing is in the
spinning as the still world passes.
It not the heavens that matter,
but how you soar through them.
Teach your broken spirit
how to navigate landmines.
Remember that yesterday is just as
relentless as tomorrow.
Your griefs and sorrows are not
the worst of griefs and sorrows.
Find hope in pain. The new pain,
the old pains that returns.
Teach your heart to be sensitive
to the music of your bones.
Don’t be afraid to tear your
skin away and begin again.
Don’t become immune to
the overwhelming.
Listen to your nude soul’s intuition
Let your mind await instruction.
Don’t concern yourself with the
breakable dawn.
Use your talents, the seeding
of grain to nurture survival.
You are the boat, the canopy,
the light, the decree.
Remember the eternal sleep,
the erasure, always lurks
in the shadows,
ready to loosen souls
and carry us toward some
unspecific light.
Life is all in the choosing.
Come September, come
December, then April
For today, choose to live.
Choose to be.
-Tosha Michelle
Everything I Never Told You 
