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Category: Poetry

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Mommess

3 little words… on my doorstep

A multi-media pairing for a multi-media life. Thank goodness for music, art, and poetry. In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes…

September 1, 2025September 1, 2025 · 1 min read

photo of trees with lens flare
Poetry

Waving

For the first time in ages, I sat outside and watched the trees. First, I saw trees. Then my eyes opened, and I saw breeze. Boughs bending toward…

August 25, 2025August 26, 2025 · 1 min read

Creativity

Becoming a writer

Play on words, Play with words: what do you want to know about you? My first poem, which I can recite by heart, woke me up. I wrote…

July 1, 2025July 2, 2025 · 4 min read

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Mommess

The book in me

I think we all have a book in us. One that includes deep themes and our ancestral family mind. Includes thoughts we can access via time to intermingle…

May 28, 2025May 28, 2025 · 3 min read

Mommess

Veiling & The Blues

On my walk today, I found a painted blue trail blaze on the ground. The tree it had been painted on had been stripped of much of its…

May 15, 2025May 17, 2025 · 8 min read

Body & Health

7 | 8 Reflections

alphabets, art, hospitality, & coverings Dear Lisa,This morning I woke up naturally, later than usual and in a warm and dark and quiet place, with a beautifully comfortable…

January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 · 5 min read

Mommess

Word

Words explain my world to me, and I’m guessing I’m not alone. What I mean is that every definition is steeped in memory of when I first learned…

October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 · 2 min read

Portal One: Egg and Three Wisdoms by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson
Mommess

Portals: belying space and time since the beginning of space and time

My woods walk today taught me about portals. They appeared like little natural occurrences that reminded me of the way we try to see things about times and…

September 23, 2024June 6, 2025 · 4 min read

Mommess

the web

As a web-worker myself, I find myself doing this every day; working on the Internet. That’s my ‘web’ and the moniker of my company. Sometimes connectivity feels like…

June 18, 2024June 21, 2024 · 1 min read

Photo by Chris Sabor
Body & Health

Showoff

That’s right. I’m done acting modest here. The show is off. Woke Wednesday Yoga. For first time in months. I tried pose to rock onto single foot.Chuck Berry…

April 24, 2024May 21, 2025 · 1 min read

Mommess

Matunuck

Escaping the sleepover fallouttwo extra boys. Legends lp playing then. And now too. The Digital. Quiet happy. Then. and video games. and airy mattress pushed up on it’s…

March 30, 2024March 30, 2024 · 1 min read

Mommess

A poem on what it feels like

… to be only a small part of a needed solution (and I want to be bigger) Speaking, sparkling, skinny-ingThat small person with a big message I am…

January 21, 2021June 3, 2022 · 2 min read

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