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I’m Not Coming to Class, Sincerely Mental Illness

This brings me back to the few times I have opened my inbox and saw my problems staring right back at me. You guessed it, students admitting the reason they didn’t show up was due to their various mental health conditions or just recently being diagnosed with one and, of course, my dear old friend with absolutely no benefits, depression has graced that list.

New Blackout Poem done in Pencil.

New medium new blackout poetry black acrylic paint.

I do not like Green Eggs and Spam

Oh spam ya maka me crazy I do not like green eggs and spam I never have and I never will Every morning when I go to my page you have taken my friends and scrambled them there. Oh spam ya maka me crazy. I do not like green eggs and spam. I never haveContinue reading “I do not like Green Eggs and Spam”

Six Word Story #113

You broke my already desolated heart. Today’s Word: Desolate 1: devoid of inhabitants and visitors 2: joyless, disconsolate, and sorrowful through or as if through separation from a loved onea desolate widow 3a: showing the effects of abandonment and neglect b: BARREN, LIFELESS a desolate landscape c: devoid of warmth, comfort, or hope More about the word. Don’t forget to leave your six word reply inContinue reading “Six Word Story #113”

Him and I : Mental Illness in Relationships

Him and I[1] People often think that being in love borderlines on having a mental illness. I don’t know if that is true, but I know what it is like to be half of a couple who both struggle with it every day. And thanks to the pandemic, I have had a lot of timeContinue reading “Him and I : Mental Illness in Relationships”

I am the one – poem by Gabriela Marie Milton / MasticadoresUSA update

Mariia aiiraM; Shutterstock I am the one [poem included in my poetry collection Passions: Love Poems and Other Writings] I am the voice of your past lovesresounding in your wildest fantasiesdressed in roses at the altar of your dreamsI am the one you’ve never hadmy soul flows from the tears of the Nilefrom the handsContinue reading “I am the one – poem by Gabriela Marie Milton / MasticadoresUSA update”

Poetry Shelf review: Ash Davida Jane’s How to Live with Mammals

How to Live with Mammals, Ash Davida Jane, Victoria University Press, 2021 Every poem in Ash Davida Jane’s new collection How to Live with Mammals is an explosion in the mouth; the intricacies and nuances last all day, and beyond. I keep saying to myself well this is my favourite, this is the one IContinue reading “Poetry Shelf review: Ash Davida Jane’s How to Live with Mammals”

Something to cling to… — Her Writing Haven

Check this poet out! She’s got talent!!!! Amid the chaosof our cluttered world,sometimes we have onlybut a past moment,something distinctly differentfrom all the other colorless days.And that one solitary moment,the one we treasurewith fondness and lovegives us something to cling towhen we can no longer seea single thread of light.Those rare moments existto reassure usContinue reading “Something to cling to… — Her Writing Haven”