Category: Penman Lounge

  • When One Is Inspired Beauty Is Born

    When one is inspired beauty is born and because of you I am giving birth Such thoughts are forming in my mind Words flowing through my fingers like magic Beauty is within me Planted by your desire for me There is nothing I can not articulate can not formulate can not create I am empowered…

  • I Am Not….I AM!!!

    You who look at me with such contempt You who does not know my soul How my heart beats! I am more than my size my weight my sex my orientation my colour my race my creed my religion… I am the force that creates life I am the wind that pushes the clouds and…

  • I Didn’t Know

    I didn’t know I was different till I was thirty three when I was hired to work in a well known store back in the early 90’s because my skin was lighter than everyones… I was the token Token… What is that word… A thing of affection? or a word of shame? well I felt…

  • Thoughts for the day: on our profitable life

    The way things are in this declining empire and our thoughts that transpire about the rules & “choices” that we have are not our own. They are the products of those who control all that is around us. When you live mentally inside a cage it is hard to see “outside thinking.” “What profit a…

  • Black Arts

    Ways that you have. Magicianary. Effort must have lost all appeal. I wonder about you. And the way fingertips dance across these follicles – all waiting for the chance Know, that pride leaves me. No space when that silhoutte enters. Dawns of an old night repeat beautifully, in peace with the ongoing surprise May I…

  • My Rapture

    I will not live my last hours in fear but full of love… I will hold close what and who is dear to me… Appreciate all that has been given to me in this life… These are not the end days but the beginning of new ones… I am not sad or fearful… I am…

  • And this is only the Bathroom

    By doing small things That might safe time later I realize how much I sacrifice the present to Reward the possibility of the future I unwrap a single toilet paper roll and Put it under the other Unfinished one Knowing that if I put two Toilet paper rolls under the first Unfinished toilet paper roll…

  • I know I need a bandaid

    After running up a down a mountain Come back to the house feeling accomplished Take off my sweaty clothes And put the wet clothes in the drier I try very hard to be perfect No one can complain if you don’t do anything wrong Right? These difficult words seem to always escape me when I…

  • I’d like to see your credentials

    Why did Jesus and Buddha have to teach others? It sounds to me like being enlightened was not enough So they had to share it with others We will never know their internal dialog or reasoning to lend a helping hand If the major role models of a religion were teachers Is it enough to…

  • Internal Fight Club

    I feel the best way to get over my thoughts is to accept them. If I don’t accept my thoughts they fester in my head I don’t accept the thoughts as truth, just their existence Once they are acknowledged I cannot deny their existence. I try to hold them loosely and Not let them direct…