Tag: writing

• Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright

  The Halloween I remember bestMay well have been my firstFive years oldA newcomer to a new townFlat red boxes on a store shelfMasks visible beneath cellophane lidsPre-fab costumes for little kidsWitches and goblins held little magic for meBut animals didI chose the tiger costumeCheap plastic mask pressing hard against my facePinching, making me sweatI happily…

  callimulligan

  October 30, 2024

  Nature, Poetry, Psychology, Writers

  animals, authors, dreams, introverts, Nature, Poetry, Psychology, spirituality, Writers, writers community, writing

• Rainy New Year

  Steady, windless rainDripping, tricklingFlowing rivuletsPeaceful cadencesPulsing heartbeatsReplenishing fontsOf wisdom, lessons learnedNature’s recitationOf hopes and prayersGentle dissolutionOf another yearHappy New Year to all

  callimulligan

  December 31, 2023

  Nature, Poetry, Writers

  holidays, introverts, Nature, Poetry, Writers, writers community, writing

• Winter Solstice

  Born on the equinox Earth’s time of greatest flux Hastening, racing One solstice to the next Back and forth, back and forth Swinging, swaying, flailing We are trapped within this tensionOf infinite oppositesTimes passage, year upon yearThe one true constantDo the opposites coalesce and dissolve in death?Do we take the best parts of ourselves forwardAnd leave the ugliness behind?Or are we…

  callimulligan

  December 19, 2023

  Nature, Poetry, Writers

  holidays, Japanese art, Poetry, Poets, solstice, winter, Writers, writers community, writing