Pain, Poetry

Human failings

  How can we be so blind This refusal to see Desensitized sight to the pain of others, This human failure of naming features, effects We cease experiencing, No longer feeling, the sensations at surface, We are no longer human. ~ FlorenceT   © 2018 FlorenceT Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal… Continue reading Human failings

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Being alive, Living life, Poetry

Post-truth, a word

Post-truth Word of the year as Oxford Dictionaries pronounces, Era of emotions and subjective beliefs Death knell to objectivity and facts, Sensationalism, you say? Or time for the personal to triumph? Emotions, relations and transgressions rule, where once ‘truths’ of a tribe - dominant culture, norms and traditions - prevail.   Whose truth must we… Continue reading Post-truth, a word

Flash Fiction, Music, Rejuvenate, Writing

Another night and here we are again…

Another night and here we are again. Waking next to him, my hand in his, I don’t move for fear of breaking the moment. The scent of his skin fills my lungs, so familiar as if we have known each other a lifetime, perhaps we have for many lifetimes. I am home. His lips on… Continue reading Another night and here we are again…

Living life, Spirit & Soul, The Self

Open wide

"When we open ourselves wide to love, we open ourselves to every imaginable heartache as well as every conceivable joy... That has to be better than flatlining ourselves through fear… don’t you think?" Be open to the human experience.