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• Fiction > Romance
  Reincarnated Roses

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  Glorious rainbow prisms of light stream into the multi-windowed solarium. The crisp morning air could not faze the sunny, golden yellow room. Inside stands Gracie, a young innocent lady with fiery red curls and wide gray puppy eyes, which admired a peculiar vase which had just arrived. Its glass sur...
• Hot Topics > What Matters
  "The Best Medicine in Life"

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  As a child, I remember looking up at adults and wondering why they were always so serious. I did not know exactly why or how their lives were so much more complicated than mine. I counted on them to take care of the difficult and confusing concepts, which I had no clue how to deal with. Now that I h...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  "My Honey Bee"

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  Autumn is arriving. I feel the cool breeze come in from my front window, gently rustling my golden curls. I look past the varicolored Beech tree and into the paddocks where the new horse paces along the fence. Instinctively, my right hand reaches down to hold the round, flat, gold-plated pendant wit...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Have You?

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  Have you ever lay down in the grass under a bed of stars? Crickets harmonizing in the starlight as meteors ricochet across the darkness. Or go on an adventure through to woods? Listening to the birds and the bees chirp and buzz. I have. Have you ever chatted with a neighbor just to say howdy d...
• Poetry > Sonnet
  The Wild's Ways

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  Through binoculars I see him from a-back frolicking, jumping, and bucking around. A squeal escapes his lips and sounds back to me in the distance, a frown I lack. A bucking bronco, his coat sheer as black jostling up other colts, the class clown. The alpha rears and strikes, gifting a severe w...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Helpless Human

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  They fly with freedom. I watch below with envy. Two legs tie me down....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Neglected Nature

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  Cities, cars zooming, traffic, honks, beeps, squawks, shouts, buildings tall, smoke suffocating people, people, people, people in their own worlds, never knowing, never seeing me, just a small green sprout no longer admired. Alligator purse, 12 inch heels, hoop-dee hoop earrings, bling, b...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Two Haunting Words

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  Depression hits you like a rock. A boulder that crushes your internal being to a point where there is too much pain to feel anything. Numbness. Not the tingling kind of numbness where you feel it progressing through the blood vessels of your inert left leg. There is a different kind. A ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  "Zoe"

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  from the Greek origin meaning “life” A collage of autumn colors tumbles downward from the treetops, hunts me down; winter’s arriving death. Fast and far, I run unscathed by the jagged, piercing teeth of red maples. Stinging winds hit me dead on, freezing my red-numb skin to boil...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Under the Influence of You

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  I cannot think; unless I think of you, I cannot breathe; without your warm breath on mine, I cannot see; until I look into your clear green eyes, I cannot hear; unless your soothing voice is harmonizing to our song, I cannot feel; without your fingertips trembling my skin to rubber, I cannot sm...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Oh Darling

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  Beloved, you cling to her so desperately, you’re love affirmation is clear. The adversary’s adulation is true to you, mine lurks in the amorphous shadows of her alluring body that you are in smitten with; Yet the light of its strength lingers on, never atrophying, never blackening like the...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Savoring Childhood Memories

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  Climbing on apple trees to pick the perfect Macintosh, Beaches full of sand castles and salty belly aches, Watching a baby sleep in my lap, Paint tasting awful, even worse than dirt, Frosting portraits…on my face, Climbing up slide, lava awaiting below, Running through the garden path pick...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  truth never forgives the knife-stabbed heart

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  truth never forgives the knife-stabbed heart for its lies bleed out onto drip drop crash explode into my ears making my crazy-daring confessions want to escape the gated bars of my teeth --strive on with no holding back chained dreams are true alive real reality as i drift off i stay down on t...
• Poetry > Sonnet
  “A Smoker’s Curse”

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  Smoke streaming from your lips drowns my sigh. It chokes my pink, healthy-working lungs. I struggle to speak out, rather I lie. The cigar’s malignance seeps onto my tongue. Does my suffering even bother you? I cringe that you’re my flesh and blood, kinship: daughter. So fragile and feebl...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  “Farewell Autumn”

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  It falls upon the feeble, dead leaves, cloaking any reminisce of those warm fall days. Peeking through the clustered crystals strives the last obstinate oak. A pure-white hare surpasses the rollicking hound. My nose freezes, pressed up against the glass. The warm nicker of my zealous stee...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Hand-to-hand

  

  By caitiekate, Hopkinton, NH

  In the shell-hole up to his neck in mud An intruder falls and stumbles down in Now on his hand and dagger there is blood Regrets in his head continue to spin The soldier’s gurgling make him crazy Different uniforms, the same young men Days have gone, the gurgling now hazy With three stabs;...