While some may like to wander through my poems, ponderings and featured pictures via the home page, here are links to some of the more often viewed selections on this site.
POETRY
As a hopeful romantic, I mostly pen poems on love and loss. Here’s an index of the most popular pieces for easy navigation.
A – A Storm Rises A Little Longer Aches After All All the Small Ings “All will be fine love” Alliteral Life of Loveliness Another Term for a Submarine Sandwich Armor is not Amore
B – Be Careful With Your Words Been Around the Block Beginner’s Mind Being Led Between Two Hearts Breathtaking But, we didn’t get to wake up to the end of the story… But who’s counting
C – Choose Love Civil War Coming in Hot Cross-pollination Encouraged, Naturally Cupid Set A Tripwire
D – Devastated Don’t tell me what he’s like when he’s smitten with you… “Do not contact me Downsized
E – Easygoing is not Easy Elegy for Grandpa Bum Everything is alright now
F – Fine Spirit Foolishly Entering Another Fore!
G – Genius! Good Morning From Mexico
H – He Keeps Every One He Speaks Four Languages. We Share One. Her Past Becomes An Anecdote
I – I Am The Center I do I Don’t Want To Think About You I Keep The Time I Married Him Yesterday I swore God put you in my sights ineed a smarter phone Is this what love is made of or does this seem absurd? It Is As I Imagined
J – Jamaican Dreams Just Weight
L – Let’s Wreck Long Distance Relationship Recipe Love Awaits Love Has No Ethnicity Love Isn’t For You Love’s Last Days
M – Making Pearls Marginalia Mistake I Made Musings, Moonlight and Martinis
N – Nap Detective Never Were We No Contest Not Bitter At All Not Broken
O – Obamas Party in Polynesia Oh Gloria! Of Scars in Sotto Voce Our Angels Must Have Talked Our Union An Oeuvre Out of Sync
P – Palm Reader Parched Piece of Cake? Pillow Case Plant Kisses Profoundly Ruined
R – Rainbow Sprinkles Rainy Season
S – Satisfying Pangs of Nothingness Say Cheese Selecting a Second Home in Mexico September Heat Single a longtime – A Self-fulfilling Prophecy? So We Were Sofa Sounds Like… Spilling Over Stick Like Spaghetti Swiping Right
T – Taken Tap-Tap No Erasies Tempting Fate The Best Is Surely Yet The Scientific Reasons Why You Love To Stalk Your Ex’s New Girlfriend There Is A Woman Who Lights Up The Whole Earth This Much I Know This Will Be In My Memoirs Thoughts from a chair in France Three Falling Trailing Thoughts True Happiness – A Haiqua
W – Who Me? Yes You (Me, too) World At Her Feet
CONFESSIONS
“About him”… A Comfortable Place Close Up Directions Entirely Fall Out Holding Love Killing Me #LoveHack Quiet Storm Slow Emotion Wait For Him Withdrawal
Others… Side Swiped
LOVE LETTERS
“Love Letters” are letters to or from Just L periodically pulled from the vault.
It All Goes Away With You
Lost in Translation
Your brilliance snags me
NAPOWRIMO
National Poetry Writing Month – One poem a day for 30 days. Here are a few selections.
2018
Stay tuned.
2017
Downsized – April 25, 2017
Tap-Tap No Erasies – April 21, 2017
Alliteral Life of Loveliness – April 12, 2017
He speaks four languages. We share one. – April 1, 2017
2016
A Memoir This Does Not Make, But It Tells A Tale – April 29, 2016
Found to Lost – April 28, 2016
Seeking Punctuation – April 24, 2016
Rooted – April 22, 2016
Unseasonably Hot – April 16, 2016
Hopeful Romantic – April 15, 2016
Just Add “…In Bed” – April 13, 2016
Minda – April 11, 2016
But the Distance – April 4, 2016
Parting Lips – April 1, 2016
2015
The Play Continues -April 23, 2015
The Sweet Spot of My Life Trajectory – April 20, 2015
He Really Gets Me – April 16, 2015
Hopeful Romantic – April 15, 2016
Bottoms Up – April 10, 2015
Winter is Over: Finally! – April 8, 2015
The Big Dipper – April 2, 2015
Our Love Story: What it is not – April 1, 2015
PONDERINGS
“Personal Life, Politics, and Pinot Blanc” is a periodic series of ponderings by Just L
I Would Die 4 U Sacrifice Yes I Say
WORKS BY OTHERS
A selection of pieces on love and loss to read, enjoy, or act upon.
If You Forget Me – Pablo Neruda (recited by Madonna)
wait until she leaves you – Star of David (2016 poem)
What it Really Means to Hold Space for Someone – Heather Plett (2016)
20 Ways to Fall In Love All Over Again – Amanda MacMillan (2016 article)
Choose Her Every Day (Or Leave Her) – Bryan Reeves (2015 article)
The Absolute Tragedy Of Watching Someone Fall Out Of Love With You – Gigi Engle (2015 article)
Ghosting: when they disappear without telling you it’s over – Petra Kreatschman, Love & Relationship Coach (2015 article)
Love At First Sight Is Real And Here’s Why – Mary McMahon (2015 article)
If you want to Change the World, Love A Man – Lisa Citore (2013 poem)
I Hope You Fall In Love Someday – Lauren M. Smith (2014 essay)
For Women Who Are Difficult To Love – Warsan Shire (2012 Interview)
The Man’s Burden: 5 Ways Men Break Up With Woman and Why – WisdomIsMisery (2011 article)
Fall – Laura Ahlfeld (2010 poem)
If You Want to Change the World, Love A Woman – Lisa Citore (2008 poem)
It wasn’t logic, it was love (Brooklyn Bridge scene from “Sex in the City: The Movie” 2008)
