Collecting memories Time is too short For Anything else Photography by: Laura Marques
Author: Amber
Writer, teacher, dog-lover, hiker, and all-around chill person
A Sickness of Man’s Creation
An illness is ravaging the land Spreading not by coughs or sneezes nor by the touch upon skin This sickness is dispersed by words Constructed from faulty ideals Reinforced with erroneous theories And solidified askew doctrines This pathogen doesn’t tire the muscles or inflict one with a blistering fever But it has slaughtered many because…
It’s A Mad, Mad World
She was once taught to discern the essence of a person by how they treat the people around them If they treat people with respect then they are respectful If they treat people with love then they’re loving If they treat people with spite then they’re spiteful If they treat people with hate then they’re…
Friendship Filter
Be compassionate Be kind But Don’t be naive with your trust Not all who come your way Will be genuine Photography by Devin Avery
Window Dressing
Savor the words you speak Ponder on the actions you commit Because if you’re ugly on the inside the outside it just meaningless window dressing photography by: Malvestida
Spring
Life is being refreshed New beginnings swirl in the pollen-infused air Some relationships are energized with the brighter days and warm temperatures While others are still in turmoil from the mayhem winter enacted. Photography by: Krystina Rogers
A Solitary Being
She was strange don’t you see… In this Tinder age Swiping for a good time Setting up a profile to hook a good match She’d been foreign to it all A touch. A kiss. A heart longing for another. She was an alien to intimacy An onlooker to infatuation and passion Was she a weird…
Wasted
Wasted years Flooding in a puddle of tears Over things unaccomplished and Hopes unfulfilled photography by Anh Nguyen
Fruits
People are the fruits they produce. Kindness or hatred Love or malice Generosity or greed Photography by Joanna Kosinska
A Library of People
I was taught to never judge a book by its cover Read the prologue Skim through the pages Peruse the first chapter And maybe the beginning of the third Pay attention to the title headings It may give you some insight. That’s probably why I view people as books Stacked in the library of life…
Peppermint Sunshine 