Tag Archives: Loss

Orange Baby

CHAPTER 4 THE SAGA CONTINUES Morning Mindmeld c.SUSANTMARTIN2022 (sold)      I got off track in the last chapter…      Too many offshoots and alleyways. Let’s move along a few years to 2020…Pandemic lock down, I’m working on Zoom with some friends. Suddenly, Donna breaks in with a plea, ” Would anyone like a Maine CoonContinueContinue reading “Orange Baby”

Dead Tired

Oh Joyful heart, where are you today? From so much light I now feel only pain. Where did my optimism run away to hide, Why now this dread that cannot be denied? She thought she had come away unscathed, from the turmoil, the abuse …and rage. But disease was just below the surface all along,ContinueContinue reading “Dead Tired”

Avian Bondage

Plumage of gold and green/ Saturated color, only in dreams/ She flies above my winter bed/ A ribbon tangled round her head/ Beauty’s song is muted now/ Yet so pure and eloquent/ I try to catch her, hold her down/ I need to know what her song meant/ Of Avian Bondage © SusanTMartin’23

We Lost Her

“Where I was Found is Where I Remain, a Scar on the Ground in The Land of Lost Names”©STMartin2022 ***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 teachesContinueContinue reading “We Lost Her”

Tentacle Memories

“The Land of Lost Names”©SusanToddMartin2022($1800.00)    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”©SusanToddMartin2023($290.00) Octo-eel emeralds, such glistening fish/ you filetContinueContinue reading “Tentacle Memories”

Peeping Out

“Hold on for dear life my friend.”