An Affair with Lady Liquor (Poetry) - 7/17/2024 6:03:12 AM
A very powerful poem,a heartbreaking subject that so many people have suffered through. I love the passion in this poem.
An Affair with Lady Liquor (Poetry) - 7/16/2024 12:14:44 PM
That's the first time I've seen alcohol personified as a woman having an affair with a man who is married. But it makes a lot of sense so it's a very good comparison.
I'm not a counselor and have had very little exposure to alcoholism except knowing a few people who have suffered from it.
I have noticed, like smoking, that drinking alcohol, when recognized by the person who is doing it as harmful, will be stopped. Sometimes it takes health issues for it to happen. And sometimes it takes being down and out.
From what you have written, loving an alcoholic can be very trying, but love that is codependent can't heal. If he feels that he will lose you to lady alcohol he may decide to stop her affections for yours.
Ron
Standing on the edge of divorce (Poetry) - 9/15/2022 8:09:54 PM
woah. i felt the heaviness of words transcribed in this page. it is truly a wonder of the human spirit that even in melancholia, one is capable of doing great art. thank you for this piece.
Standing on the edge of divorce (Poetry) - 9/14/2022 9:50:33 AM
Divorce is never easy for anyone. Your poem counts the numerous ways that separation affects the marriage and leads to divorce. Many who make that leap that you are on the edge of eventually find that they shouldn't have. And others find it to be a relief once it is done.
Simply painful to read.
Ron
Standing on the edge of divorce (Poetry) - 9/13/2022 9:10:50 PM
It hurts when love is one-sided. It often ends with a couple divorcing each other. You've spilt your broken heart out in this poem with powerful raw emotions. Nothing is easy but I wish you both can mend the gap.
Sandie
Help!!! (Poetry) - 9/13/2022 9:03:10 PM
Hi Melisa:
I'm not sure if what you have written is true or this is just a poem. I am reading a lot if guilt and pain into this. Sometimes, you just need your anger to surface without feeling guilty because what happened was not your fault. You'll need to let that anger out, and perhaps also seek some professional help as well. You are too precious a human being to be suffering through no fault of your own.
It is okay to get angry, okay to cry. After that is done you'll need to pick up yourself and move forward. The past does not define who you are, it should not let it affect your future. Your future is in your hands and you can shape it to whatever you want it to be.
Good luck!
Sandie
I don't want to know (Poetry) - 4/14/2019 10:03:15 AM
Not me!! I wana know the who, the where-the-all, and tell it to me quick!
I don't want to know (Poetry) - 4/13/2019 12:10:30 PM
I believe this goes under the category of ignorance is bliss.
Don't Read Aloud (Poetry) - 4/10/2016 10:01:42 AM
Strikes me as very personal. I hope he/she gets to read it, out loud or not.
Ron
Don't Read Aloud (Poetry) - 4/9/2016 2:07:01 PM
You should become a storyteller and hold readings, I think your reading aloud would be great, Melissa.
Don't Read Aloud (Poetry) - 4/8/2016 6:24:54 AM
you do this very well
Suicide (Poetry) - 2/12/2010 8:09:08 AM
Title worries me. That is if this is autobiographical, which I suspect it is. Get up and love again!! He (or she?) isn't worth the dirt beneath your shoes. Chalk it up to bad karma--or bad person--and thank your lucky stars you are free!! 's'my advice, an' I'm stickin' to it.
Love the passion and forthrightness in your work. Bet that such-and-so doesn't have your talent! xOx Pea xOx
Lost in the mirror (Poetry) - 2/12/2010 8:03:54 AM
Oh, do I know the feeling! Being human can be the pits. Stronger than you think you are, luv. Grab the leash and give it a jerk and Life will turn around. Tweak its nose, then turn it around again and give it a kick in the butt. Don't forget you're the boss of it!
Or will be again. . .soon. . . Hugs! 'Pea'
You know me he said. (Poetry) - 2/12/2010 7:57:13 AM
xOx E x c e l l e n t !! xOx
