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In The Sanctuary Of My Head

The Broken-Winged Birds and People (re-edited 4/5/2323 3:03PM PST) (re-edited 11:14am PST 2/23/2023)

The Hell Of Winter (re-edited 4:27pm PST 3/9/2023)

My Grey Haired Love...La La Lullaby , La La Lullaby My Love

THE HEART IS AN ORGAN ON FIRE



When Mr. Bemish Lost His Last Good Pair of Glasses

Kathy Brown Kathy Brown

Something Not Quite Right About Here (Vortex) re-edited 1/26/2023

THE COOL TILES BENEATH MY FEET REMIND ME

The Way Of The Crow

DO YOU TURN THE LIGHTS SO YOU CAN SLEEP?

The Springtime Shadows Play Games Upon The Wall

CHRONICLER OF DREAMS

YET ANOTHER ANTI-POETRY POEM ( re-edited 11/2/2022)

You Do As You Please 8/17/2005 found poem, readjusted 6/20/22

HERE WE SIT AT OUR TABLE 2/19/2022

Much Better Than This ( A Conversation With The Universe)

The Straight Story (What Happens When The Writer Inserts You Into Her Story)

THE TIDE CALLED LONELINESS

A Girl Always Leaning Forward Looking for A Breeze

Entanglements

Have You Ever... (DECEMBER 4/2021)

Appetites

How I Still Love You

The Smile Which Eludes @

He Says To Me, I Think Too Much (and hence dream too much as well)

When You Learn Who You Really Are And What Is...

Anti-Poem Number Three 8/2/2022 Or, A Poem Your Proper Mother Wouldn't Write

Breathing On My Own

A Girl Is More Than a Beautiful Box re-edited 10:15pm PST 1/31/22

I LOVE YOU ALWAYS ANYWAY AND INSTEAD

Talk To Me In The Dark 7/8/2022

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All In The Family (Family, What A Concept)


for some family is
hearts
secure arms
compassion
words that are warm and heal minds
for some family is
brokenness
fists
alienation
words that maim and steal peace of mind

why is there the ache
the need
for family
belonging
connection

different definitions arise
for us all
through out experience

I pretend sometimes
I know the definitions
but I also pretend
I'm an orphan
because
I know I have been left
by the wayside
and I don't know why in the world
I would want to enter in
anyway
to this family

it doesn't adhere
to any definition
in any dictionary

there shouldn't be any rules
nor compliance tests

when I look at the vast number of homeless people
and wars
I begin to understand
there is little family
humanity or family--
what a concept..............


legal copyright straight to the page 10:05AM 11/24/18
and also for this author/poet/write Melissa A. Howells
and also for this legally copyrighted site title
Meloo Straight From Her Tilt-a-World

guess I have a Thanksgiving/Holiday sort of love-hangover
Uh, no thanks





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