From the heart of this woman

My poetry has changed over the years. The first poems I ever wrote were in high school. I laugh now reading them. Not because they are so bad ( though they aren't masterpieces by any stretch of the imagination! They are very typical of a lovestruck teenager pouring out her heart about some boy who won't play her any attention). But because they take me right back to that moment, feeling, emotion from my youth.

Later, as my mood darkened, my poems spoke of my sadness. I just went back to writing poems after a five year haitus. I find the poems that flow from me now speak to being lost and also I am playing around with imagery more.

Out of all the poems I have ever written I have pulled together 35 so far to put in an album to show friends and family.
Here are a few examples-

This poem is already on the internet. It is on poetry.com and at an aspiring writers msn group. If I remember right I wrote it in 2001.

The Burden

Like a bird that can no longer fly
her wings broken
by the burden
of his betrayal
bitterness
burned into her heart
sadness
scorched onto her soul
crushed by knowledge
better left unknown
and the
weight
of all her dreams
denied
inhibits her flight
Till the bird that once flew
now crawls through the night.

The next poem I wrote yesterday.
The Earth Rattles

The earth rattles
knocking loose
rearranging
what use to pass for,
masquerade as,
the truth.
Leaving left
the same pieces,
now a kaleidoscope of wreckage.
Or is it a blessing?
A forced beginning,
sun rising
over ruins
that are
destined
to be renewed.