The Inside Voice

"I must fight the lies my mind whispers to me..."

We Lost Her

"Where I was Found is Where I Remain, a Scar on the Ground in The Land of Lost Names"ยฉSTMartin2022 ***Trigger Warning* This post contains adult subject matter such as mental illness and loss of life by one's own hand*** ANOTHER FRIEND GONE: She is young, strong and beautiful. A gymnast, so good that she teachesContinue reading "We Lost Her"

Tentacle Memories

"The Land of Lost Names"ยฉSusanToddMartin2022($1800.00) ย ย  Slinking out, an arm entwines/ while in my head a dream unwinds /My vision blurs as visions come/ I feel speech slide off my tongue/ It floats away unheard, unread/ I swim out further, the sea my bed. "Drowning With Her Baggage"ยฉSusanToddMartin2023($290.00) Octo-eel emeralds, such glistening fish/ you filetContinue reading "Tentacle Memories"

Do You Know What I Know?

One of the MANY VERSIONS of "The Dreaming Forest" STMartin2021 I was pondering a lesson today in oil painting class...that being: It is OK to ruin a painting when you are a beginner. It is ok for your starting efforts to fail, not turn out as you had hoped, to basically be terrible. And theContinue reading "Do You Know What I Know?"

Hugging You

oh, my/ i sigh, wisp of memory/ floating by an image/ remembering us the smell of clean/ oil of olay hands warm/ blue veins/ grey eyes Oh, my/ i sigh. arm in arm/ hand to hand laughing again/ I dream awake oh! awaken my love! waiting breathlessly/ drowning sea I hug you tightly/ brightly ShiningContinue reading "Hugging You"

And Her Name Is…

"...and I am all locked up inside a tiny, empty box of a mind..."

A Post on a Page?

A Page of posts.... Doubting Thomas in a Virgin Forest. It's funny that I don't write in my journal anymore...I used to write every night, pouring my heart out, writing poetry and telling my dreams. No one ever read the words, and I was free to say what I truly had in my heart. ItContinue reading "A Post on a Page?"

Cruelty to Humans

Oh, Woe! To the Earth and the Sea! Oh, my. So much going on in the world today. So many sad stories, War and pain all around us. It can feel so... HEAVY. and it is. I feel it, the weight of this life... It's not killing me today, though. Not like it used toContinue reading "Cruelty to Humans"