Tag: Coping
Posted on February 26, 2023
by tara caribou
20 Comments
the ghosts, the shadows, the echoes
Category: Poetry, tara caribouTags: Connection, Coping, Desire, Free Verse, Heart, Longing, Love, Memories, Poem, Relationship, Romance, Self Worth, Sensual, Sex, Thoughts
Posted on January 4, 2023
by tara caribou
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The leaves on the trees have become smudges, merely a backdrop I look right through. I see nothing. I see everything. Everything. You weren’t able to reach beyond the now into tomorrow. You stay in the past and try for today, but never tomorrow.… Continue Reading “In the Last Light of the Evening”
Category: Prose, tara caribouTags: Acceptance, Change, Coping, Dark, Depression, Free Verse, Lessons, Life, Love, Prose, Rain, Self Worth, Thoughts, Turmoil, Writing
Posted on July 3, 2022
by tara caribou
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would have been, in days past, that the arguments and pain and hurtful words would have thrown me into a spiral. envisioning red ribbons across pale flesh and splashes of life (precious) dripping onto bathroom tiles. forget the sharp blade, I’d reach for the… Continue Reading “Red White and Blues”
Category: Poetry, tara caribouTags: Clear Mind, Connection, Control, Coping, Free Verse, Friendship, Good Days and Bad Days, Hope, Lessons, Mental Health, Musings, Nature, OCD, Personal Growth, Poem, Poetry, Possibilities, Relationship, Self Worth, Writing
Posted on November 30, 2021
by tara caribou
43 Comments
For nineteen years, I was beat and belittled into quiet submission. I was trained to understand I would never measure up. I laughed too loud, I talked too much, I read the wrong things, I didn’t fit in, I didn’t understand my peers. I… Continue Reading “Thoughts on a Windy November Afternoon”
Category: Prose, tara caribouTags: About Me, Art, Character Sketch, Clear Mind, Contemplation, Coping, Dreams, Happiness, Hope, Lessons, Life, Loneliness, Memories, Mental Health, Musings, Nature, Passion, Sadness, Self Worth, Share, Thoughts, Truth, Writer, Writing
Posted on November 4, 2021
by tara caribou
7 Comments
A Poem by Brandon White. Exit 8 – A Poem by Brandon White Exit 8The sky was an oil paintingand I was stoned and terrifieddoing 80down i40,as close to Hunter S. Thompsonas I’ll ever be In between moments of sheer panic,I thought of poetry… Continue Reading “Exit 8 | REBLOG from Brandon White”
Category: Reblogs (Your Posts)Tags: Brandon White, Coping, Hope, Indie Author, Lessons, Life, Mental Health, Poem, Poetry, Self Worth, Share, Thoughts
Posted on August 16, 2021
by tara caribou
87 Comments
The first time she climbed through my bedroom window in the middle of the night I was ten and she was eight. She didn’t say anything, just clung to me beneath my purple unicorn blanket and quivered. I wrapped my arms around her and… Continue Reading “Through The Window”
Category: Flash Fiction, tara caribouTags: Abuse, Coping, Dark, Flash Fiction, Friendship, Healing, Hope, Hurt, Love, Memories, Prose, Sadness, Short Story, Writing
Posted on July 26, 2021
by tara caribou
22 Comments
I pull the sheets up to my chin. There are monsters here, but they aren’t out there. No, they reside within. Snapping their powerful jaws and flexing their pointed claws. They dig inside my brain and find all the worst parts of me. “You… Continue Reading “Under the Sheets, In My Head”
Category: Prose, tara caribouTags: About Me, Coping, Dark, Depression, Heart, Lessons, Life, Mental Health, OCD, Self Worth, Thoughts, Truth, Turmoil, Writing
Posted on April 23, 2021
by tara caribou
50 Comments
The loss was so profound So deep So all-encompassing that it Seemed For a time As if the tears would Never End “Will I ever stop crying?” I asked the world in general In poured the platitudes The endearments The empty gestures And then… Continue Reading “Grief Held”
Category: Poetry, tara caribouTags: About Me, Child loss, Coping, Death, Depression, Grief, Heart, Loss, Love, Memories, Mental Health, Poem, Sadness, Turmoil
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