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.
A to Z POETRY SELECTIONS
As a hopeful romantic, I mostly pen poems on love and loss. Here’s an index of the most popular pieces for easy navigation.
-- 2016 was a brutal year #LoveHack
A - A Comfortable Place A Little Longer A Storm Rises Aches After All All For You All In Vain 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 Breathe, Kiss, Quave Breathtaking But who's counting
C - Choose Love Civil War Close Up Coming in Hot Crossing Heartbreak Cross-pollination Encouraged, Naturally Cupid Set A Tripwire
D - Devastated Directions Don’t tell me what he’s like when he’s smitten with you… "Do not contact me Downsized
E - Easygoing is not Easy Entirely Everything is alright now Exception Proves The Rule
F - Fall Out Fine Spirit Foolishly Entering Another Fore!
G - Genius! Good Morning From Mexico
H - Handsome - A Tanka Poem He Keeps Every One He Speaks Four Languages. We Share One. Her Past Becomes An Anecdote Holding Love How Love Blossoms, Grows, and Remains
I - I Am The Center I do I Don’t Want To Think About You I Keep The Time I Made A Man Coffee This Morning 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
K - Killing Me Knocking on the Dawn Anew
L - Let's Wreck Long Distance Relationship Recipe Lost In You Love Awaits Love Isn't For You Love's Last Days Love Signs
M - Making Pearls Mistake I Made Musings, Moonlight and Martinis
N - Nap Detective Never Keep A Box of Hate Never Were We No Contest Not Bitter At All Not Broken Not One Love But Two
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
Q - Quiet Storm
R - Rainbow Sprinkles Rainy Season
S - Satisfying Pangs of Nothingness Say Cheese Selecting a Second Home in Mexico September Heat Side Swiped Single a longtime – A Self-fulfilling Prophecy? Slow Emotion Sofa Sounds Like… Spilling Over Stick Like Spaghetti Swiping Right
T - Taken Tap-Tap No Erasies Tempting Fate The Best Is Surely Yet 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 Trembliiing True Happiness - A Haiqua
U - Unconvinced Unprepared
V - Verbally Fluent Vorfreude
Y - You Didn't See Me You Wish
W - Wait For Him We Made A Match Where Two Rivers Meet The Sea Withdrawal World At Her Feet
ABOUT HIM
Perhaps not my best poetry, but — from love’s beginning to a ghosted end, and then some — someday this will become a chapbook with every memorabilia in 3-D on each page ala 1991’s “Griffin and Sabine”…
To this day, I have never loved someone so deeply and have been willing to be so vulnerable. I believe this shines through. While enjoying every present moment I had that undeniable sense that he just may be ‘the one’ for the second 50 years of my best life. Now, he’s just “somebody I used to know.” You can search “#abouthim” to find the entire collection.
Give Away (originally penned 12/13/14)
Give Away
Three Falling-- Christmas Day 2014 Conversation
February 2015 Blender of Love — “Just L had a brilliant month, really good stuff.” – Kirk, Blender Keeper
Love Awaits
Location Location Location
Spilling Over
Spilling Over
Knocking on the Dawn Anew
Knocking on the Dawn Anew
#LoveHack (March 10, 2015)
Palm Reader (March 22, 2015)
Confessions - Entirely (March 16, 2015)
Our Love Story (April 2, 2015)
Bottoms Up (April 10, 2015)
Birthday Extravaganza (April 11, 2015) -- after a lovely celebration at Edgefield
Whipped (April 12, 2015)
Irresistibly Dangerous (April 13, 2015)
Irresistibly Dangerous
He Really Gets Me (April 16, 2015)
#livingoutloud (April 17, 2015)
High Marks (April 29, 2015)
May 2015 Blender of Love — “Dig the playing with prose stylings.” – Kirk, Blender Keeper
All the Small Ings
All the Small Ings
Decorative Hedge (May 3, 2015)
Flash Forward (May 5, 2015)
You make me want to move furniture (May 17, 2015)
Ugly Shirt (May 26, 2015)
June 2015 Blender of Love — “Two… the second in response to a “Vow Challenge” BK ran in the comments section…” – Kirk, Blender Keeper
Nap Detective
Nap Detective
August 2015 Blender of Love — “Two… Both on what we can do and can’t do.” – Kirk, Blender Keeper
On My Tiptoes
On My Tiptoes
Cautiously Giddy
Cautiously Giddy
Only to reach his lips (August 18, 2015)
But I Do (August 18, 2015)
Trailing Thoughts
Trailing Thoughts
Everything I've Got
Everything I’ve Got
Let's Wreck
Let’s Wreck
October 2015 Blender of Love — “The power of realization and overcoming.” – Kirk, Blender Keeper
Summer's Templum
Been Around the Block
Been Around the Block
Say Cheese
Say Cheese
Magnificence of an Accident (November 30, 2015)
A Little Longer
A Little Longer
Just Weight
Just Weight
February 2016 Blender of Love — “Two… A deliciously condensed version of another submission this month, and “A play on ‘so far'” — I like how little this says but how well it says it.” – Kirk, Blender Keeper
Sofa
Breathtaking
Breathtaking
Wait For Him (February 17, 2016)
March 2016 Blender of Love — “Two… This month’s top of the page quote and a thoughtful journal entry.” – Kirk, Blender Keeper
Clearly
Vorfreude
Vorfreude
April 2016 Blender of Love — “Four… very thoughtful stuff!” – Kirk, Blender Keeper
Flaws & All
Or so I thought
A Comfortable Place
Confessions – A Comfortable Place
Be Careful With Your Words
Be Careful With Your Words
A Motley Portrait (April 6, 2016)
Minda (April 11, 2016)
You might be broke up (April 21, 2016)
Mr. Bubble (April 23, 2016)
But who's counting (April 27, 2016)
From Found to Lost (April 28, 2016)
May 2016 Blender of Love — “Two… with some longing.” – Kirk, Blender Keeper
After All
Tempting Fate
Tragically Broken (May 1, 2016)
With So Many Rights How Did We Go Wrong? (May 3, 2016)
Love Handles (May 4, 2016)
Piece of Cake (May 10, 2016)
Confessions - Holding Love (May 11, 2016)
100 Days (May 25, 2016)
True Happiness - A Haiqua
ineed a smarter phone
Plant Kisses
I See Into You (June 9, 2016)
Love's Last Days (June 16, 2016)
Love’s Last Days
Confessions - Slow (e)Motion (June 22, 2016)
Confessions - Fall Out (July 5, 2016)
Out of Sync
Out of Sync
A Quote on Love & Grace
2016 was a brutal year...
2016 was a brutal year…
Unprepared (July 23, 2017)
This Will Be In My Memoirs (August 2, 2017)
Mistake I Made (October 13, 2017)
I Don't Want to Think About You (November 5, 2017)
Not Broken (January 2, 2018)
Not Broken
A Love Letter For One Battling Cancer (October 6, 2019)
NAPOWRIMO
April is National Poetry Writing Month – One poem a day for 30 days. Here are a few selections.
2019 - My Chanel Boots - April 4 Truth or Fiction? - April 2 How to Honor the Visible and the Invisible - April 1
2018 - Postcard to My Love from the Train - April 28 Secret Shame or Secret Pleasure? - April 1
2017 - Downsized - April 25 Tap-Tap No Erasies - April 21 Alliteral Life of Loveliness - April 12 He speaks four languages. We share one. - April 1
2016 - A Memoir This Does Not Make, But It Tells A Tale - April 29 Found to Lost - April 28 Seeking Punctuation - April 24 Rooted - April 22 Unseasonably Hot - April 16 Hopeful Romantic - April 15 Just Add “...In Bed” - April 13 Minda - April 11 But the Distance - April 4 Parting Lips - April 1
2015 - The Play Continues -April 23 The Sweet Spot of My Life Trajectory - April 20
He Really Gets Me - April 16 Hopeful Romantic - April 15 Bottoms Up - April 10 Winter is Over: Finally! - April 8 The Big Dipper - April 2 Our Love Story: What it is not - April 1
PONDERINGS, NOT POETRY
“Personal Life, Politics, and Pinot Blanc” — a periodic series of ponderings by Just L.
But, we didn’t get to wake up to the end of the story… Gag Me In 2019, I Want Someone I Would Die 4 U Love Has No Ethnicity Next Time: Note to Self Reflections on 1977 Sacrifice Who Me? Yes You (Me, too) 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)
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