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Courage is Writing a Resume, Again

I’ve lost my job…

As if somehow

I’ve misplaced a part of my life

I now have to find

Just around the next corner.

So I become still, quiet

Trying to remember

Writing accomplishments

About what I’ve done

For so many years

I could do it with my eyes closed.

What am I afraid of?

[...]

Frankie

Seven is too young to die…

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You were too little to be so sick.

I watched you lying in a tent,

Helpless

Nothing to give you

Only hugs.

Band-Aids didn’t work anymore

Round face, sad eyes

Pain that could be seen through

The plastic that helped you breathe.

Seven is too young to [...]

Hope Arrives at Daylight

I walked alone upon a road beside a hill

Where I saw an open grave lying still

All alone beneath a tree, when I came near

The darkness grew, took my sight, left the fear

For there, right there, in front of me

There was my name, inscribed on stone,

beneath the tree.

Unsure, [...]

Longing

Though I’ve worn my heart

Upon my sleeve (and around my knees)

More times than I care to remember

Or talk about in mixed company.

There is that special place I keep for you

Like the bag that’s packed

With brandy colored lipstick, ginger cologne

A little black dress, and cream lingerie

That ignites [...]

Lugubrious

Last Light of Day (c) 2004 by Sara Fryd

Last light of day warms the heart

Like chili stew warms the ribcage

During the early frosts of December nights.

You’ve left to “find yourself,”

Somewhere else

Though not here.

I am lugubriously left

To find your face

Amongst black and whites or sepia [...]

San Juan Windows

Deserted windows

Empty now

no one looking out.

No sounds of children playing.

No birds resting

waiting for a crumb of bread.

No poets

sitting on your ledge,

watching goings on

on streets below.

Reporting to the world beyond

passionate fantasies.

Dreams…

as yet untold.

Why do [...]

Southwest Calling

I was lost once…

without a compass

without hope

without faith

without God

without Me.

Lost in the forest

of my creation

knowing not the path

for the trees.

Knowing not where the sky left off

and I began.

Believed the self delusion

others knew more

who I should be

than me.

I let stillness envelop me

and asked [...]

The World Held its Breath

The world watched and

held its breath

as two previous enemies

agreed to lay the past to rest

for once and always.

We who have grown up as

children of one war or another

prayed that this would be the

greatest miracle of all…

a sign

a beginning

an omen.

That maybe [...]

Unconquered

You ask me why?

Why do I write?

I look at you with weary eyes

And often speculate myself

Now ask me again why I write

Then ask me why I breathe?

Ask me why I search when others deny

Oblivious to them, not me…

An unknown, forlorn poetess

Verbs pouring from my pores

May [...]