Peppermint Sunshine

Love of One

Don’t try to fulfill the measurements Of someone else’s mold Be enough for yourself Be true to you Be honest with you Love you Cherish you Honor yourself before anyone else

It was the gentle breeze coasting over the meadow Faintly brushing across the delicate petals of a daffodil A subtle wind blew through the atmosphere Shifting the easy dynamic of their simple love It was the chill raising the hairs on the back of Eden’s neck Simon held her hand loosely, dangling at his side He…

Unspoken

‘What are you thinking,’ He quietly asked. She bit her lip Not knowing what to say All the responses in mind her told her to be honest, To tell him her worries And all her regrets The things that happened in the past and All the things that caused her unrest She looked at him…

Understatement

‘You’re important to me’ he whispered in her ear As he held her tightly But all her heart heard were the words He didn’t say like I love you and with you is where I pray to stay He called her once in a three-day span Not including the text he replied to With the alphabet…

Unique

She’s a peculiar person In an ordinary world She thinks life is meant to be lived Not days spanned to years Spent at a desk logging in hours to pay bills Clubs don’t excite her Apple martinis don’t percolate her taste buds She’d rather a hike through the hinterland Sipping on a green tea spiked…

Individual

I won’t feed your ego Or sugarcoat your ills I’m a real person with my own ideals Don’t flick through my clothes And tell me what to wear Don’t scan through my pictures And tell me how to do my hair I’m not your puppet And how that makes you feel, I really don’t care….

Foe

Don’t twist the key Don’t pop the lock Don’t let her in Don’t linger in her doubt Don’t listen to her venomous words Don’t trust her rantings She’s not your friend She’s up to no good You can’t be you If you’re playing with her She’ll pull you down Drown you in her lake of…

Climb

Let 2016’s mistakes sweat out of your system Like last night’s champagne Let last years downfalls stay at the bottom of that mountain You just climbed. Stand at the peak, feeling your strength surge through your veins like electricity Embrace 2017 Fight like a warrior Reign like royalty

Redolence

He told her he would be home hours ago So, she looked for him Waited for him Anticipated him Thought about all the misfortunes that could’ve happened to him Just before the waking hours He slid into bed As she rested her head upon his bare skin She discovered he didn’t smell like the man…

Anomaly

A stranger among the masses An imposter mingled with the identical She carried on the charade until she could strategize her escape To inhale the mossy evergreen Hum along to the harmonizing of the sparrow Feel the routine of the world evaporate in the shifting breeze Resting in the grass with a pine cone at…