Greetings from New England. It’s gorgeous. Here’s a few pictures of Portland Maine and a picture I took in Bangor of Stephen King’s house. Off to Cape Elizabeth and Salem Massachusett tomorrow. 💕
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Tag: travel
Somewhere
In the atmosphere, I have fallen.
I will not wake or be woken.
In my bed clouded by air.
I lie alone but not lonely.
Uncertain of certainty.
In this brief windswept hour,
the heavens spare a glance,
or maybe just a lark
I always wish on Jupiter
thinking it’s a star.
I write, knowing I can’t
rescind it.
The words heart colored
Legible only to me.
It is good until it is not.
Tell me there’s a comet somewhere
-Tosha Michelle
Laying the Blues Down
I’m tired of dragging my
hurts round like a stick
along jail cell bars.
And my tune always broken,
and the warden always asking
for some change.
Let me lie down on a cot,
or in the middle of the floor
and scatter my grievances
and self abuse all around.
And wait for another inmate
with a bottle of whiskey
and harmonica, who knows
how to play the blues, to
come and sit down beside me
And we’ll harmonize our angst
like pressing a finger to a bleeding wound.
And our hearts may be broken organs,
but we’ll pluck a banjo from it’s strings.
And we’ll sing until the night
opens for us like a door.
And let our song carry us as
far as the sky will go or, at least
to Chicago or St. Louis.
There we’ll swallow snowmelt, and
take our self doubt underground.
Finally laying those
melancholy blues down.
-Tosha Michelle
Savannah GA
Shadow Dancing
Be the howling moon
or the quiet wind.
Be Orion and his
starlight shield.
Be the road with no
street signs.
Be waylaid plans;
the lost map.
Arrive on the sidewalk
without knowing where
you are going.
Be the lightning bug.
The crickets,
telling secrets to
the air.
Be the couple walking
into the privacy of
nightfall,
Be their watch. Be
their hands.
Be the cafe always
open late, slide
into the flow of
the coffee.
Be the noodle slip
off the novice’s
chopsticks. The
soup disappearing
in the bowl
Be the siren in the
distance, the choir
music filtering
through the door of
St. Michael’s
Be the
patrons leaving the
bar.
Be the drink in their
glass. The holy water
they swim in.
Turn left.
or
Turn right.
Be the narrow streets,
the high beams on a
city bus. The cab called
they waved off.
Be the cracks in
the sidewalk, the steep
stairs leading 5 floors up.
Be the bright apartment
and the glow from the
lamp light coming through
the window. Want to be
that glow. See two bodies
sways.
Be the shadow behind the
shade.
-Tosha Michelle
The Awakening
No longer content with the
winter life and its flannel
sleep. Self and it’s terms
finally meet
She wipes away
the frost from her soul
And sees spring illuminated
beyond the cold.
Sunlight the trinket she’s
always possesed
misplaced for awhile
shine from within.
Her sepia world
long deprived of green
become vibrant and
alive again.
She walks away in blue
with plenty of heart
by the light of her own
eyes, no longer needing
to find it in another.
The view defined by her,
and her alone.
-Tosha Michelle
Music for Friday
A quote and a song for this lovely Friday.
“Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”
-Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
And my musical selection. Wanna slow dance? 😜 I will step on your toes. Have a listen and a wonderful weekend. ❤️ Oh, and look y’all, another pair of new eyeglasses 😮
