2020 New Year
Last New Year I shared my resolutions with everyone. I listed five things I wished to accomplish in 2019. I’ll break each down and share how I did.… Read More 2020 New Year
Category: My Story
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving 2019 | Family, Loss and Forgiveness by Deanna Ramirez Trigger Warning: Touches on childhood abuse and death. Last night, I learned my grandfather passed away. I said my goodbye on Monday morning. His eyes, narrow slits, peered at me briefly. I think he saw me, though I don’t know for sure. I haven’t seen… Read More Thanksgiving
Summer Haze on Canvas
I wrote my poem Summer Haze last spring as an ode to my childhood in Somerville, Massachusetts. Raised in the Mystic Housing Projects as a child, I spent summer days playing outside from morning till night. … Read More Summer Haze on Canvas
Instagram Algorithm
Did you know Instagram is unfavorable to words? When I created my Instagram account to feature my written work, I did not understand this!… Read More Instagram Algorithm
Lost at Sea
It is though in those years⠀
I was lost at sea⠀
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Longed hard for love’s arms ⠀
to wrap warmth around me⠀
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Instead glacial glares ⠀
Frost dealt cold as ice⠀
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Left to tread frigid dread⠀
Just so you would play nice … Read More Lost at Sea
Ex Lover
Lover ⠀
you will not be the death of me ⠀
Never have I relinquished ⠀
such power ⠀… Read More Ex Lover
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is not black and white⠀
For layers peel back in their time ⠀… Read More Forgiveness
The Little Shed
The little shed is painted blue
with two old chairs for me and you… Read More The Little Shed
Equalizer
The war in me for equality
For equal pay
Performing quality work
in the same way
And never needing to be told
Cause I have integrity to uphold… Read More Equalizer
Sum, a poem
You are not the sum of opinions… Read More Sum, a poem
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