http://slow.writerscafe.org/MomzillaNC The original writings of author MomzillaNC en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775939308 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 For Hamid for Valentine’s Day 2026 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/3126214/ “Finding connection is finding poetry in your thinking”¹ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/3119706/ It’s the most creepiest time of the yearWith the wolves creepy stalkingAnd everyone telling you smile and be niceIt’s the most creepiest time of the yearIt’s the wolf-creepiest stalking of allWith those attention seekers demanding we hookup“Don’t mind your husband&rdquo.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/3113592/ Inspiration: CEB Isaiah 59:3-14 The lowercase "god" is deliberate in the title. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2964322/ By D. Denise Dianaty, proud American anti-fascist, just like my grandparents http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2962534/ Hate is the executioner’s guillotine severing hopeFrom shadowed hollowsHate snatches peaceby a thousand cutscircling, baleful, lashingravaging hopesmaller and smaller of mindshrinking desperate soulsDesperate angry souls dragging us all down compassionless betraying hopeInhumanity slays hum.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2946606/ It's time to ask ourselves…  "If not now, when?  If not me, who?"  We have only this time and ourselves. We are here now and we are the heroes we're waiting for. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2941946/ Perusing the headlines in Trump's America inspired this poem. Some of those headlines are linked in the poem. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2936610/ He lied.We told you.You believed him.You voted for This America.The cruelty is the point.When lawlessness rules from the top,greed is virtue and power is for sale,ceding power to the richestdenying justice to the people…The cruelty is the point.If inclusion is a crimeand hate is a virtue,when.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2931923/ Hamid and I have been together over 34 years. Every Valentine's Day, I gift him a new poem immortalizing our love. Every poem is a celebration of our love and life together. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2931526/ For hours now, she'd flitted through the freezing forest, evading the thieving blighters. All Grannie had told her was to follow the call and that "It will come to you with the gloaming," she'd said.Euphemia had laid low in the cold damp of the deep forest since late morning. The voice came as the o.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2907751/ A poem of Mother’s passing 10 April 1943--24 September 2018 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2905174/ Onomatopeia http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2902393/ A playful poetic foray with a Thesaurus http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2902291/ Towers of light shine forthbreaching the far horizonas the false morning fadesThe rooster’s strutting crow proud, confident cockerelboldly greets the new mornA thoughtful soul’s witnessrevels in blissful solitudeunder a painted morning skyAs the lone nightingale&r.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2900708/ That raging titian toddlerScreams from his sphincter-faced gobWitch hunt! Witch hunt! Witch hunt!How dare they hold me accountableFor a lifetime of crimin' my crimesHe’s received due processBeen found guiltyThe verdict by a jury of his peersGuilty on all thirty-four countsThirty-four times cri.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2893511/ Resting in the hollow of the yearsreveling in the surety of us leaning back against youcontemplating in silencecomfortable hearts togetherWe remain Through hard scrabble hopeilluminated by bursts of joythrough stormy or shining daysgrowing wiser with the yearswe share.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2887169/ Laying cherished in your arms Wreathed in the sweet scent of you An essence strong and warmOur love fills the silenceWith the inner pounding cadenceof two hearts beating in stereoTracing the line of your nose From your luminous ebony eyesTo the curve of your supple lipsYou gently clas.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2886763/ Gratitude opens our hearts and lets forth loveHoly Father, God who is love…All glory and honor and praiseBelong always to You,Master and Creator of LifeAuthor of all that is good in the Universe.Your kingdom is within creationAnd, if we only let Your will lead us,we will find Your kingdo.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2885945/ I’m crossing the peak… starting the downslope of life… From this lofty perspective,       I can see the years and experiences…          …trailing out behind me. In those misty reaches,     &n.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2881920/ Poetry of the mundane http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2881039/ Cry my tears for meSee through her eyesFeel with his heartListen with our earsBreathe for my brotherEmbrace her differenceHold close his fearsTremble in our needSit in my isolationRun her race from painScream his lost voice for himSuffocate in our silenced hopeWalk with us in our shoesWade into all .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2879789/ For Hamid, Valentine's Day 2024 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2878857/ For Hamid on our 32nd Anniversary, 2023 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2872949/ Poetic musings sitting with the divine http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2872713/ Darkness crushing down…I stand in the dark…bereft and alone until……the tiniest spark,just a glimmer…flares from my heart.Hope flames in my breast.I hand it onward……hand it on to you.Take it to your heart.Raise up high the torch.Pass it on to light the.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2872711/ This world’s anxious winds blowwith its dismal tales of woein days of doubt and fearmost wretched are we souls hereseeing no light aheadonly drear darkness and dreadAnd yet…In soul drudgery darkwhispers a song like the larkfaint light from the dark throngraises a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2868645/ For my grandparents http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2866647/ A Reckoning for Evil Doers A twisted nursery rhyme mimicking "Sing a Song of Sixpence" http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2866073/ Mimicking "Little Miss Muffet" http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2865577/ Inspired by the movies Willard (1971) and Ben (1972) http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2865425/ Just a weird little something that came to me http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2863588/ An old poem written for my anniversary one year. I don't recall which year. It was before we moved away from Missouri. So, the poem predates 2007. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2863513/ Cold winter heart of greedHeart frozen in hate bears seedIts cruel dross bears no-thing…Took all, left no song to sing.When all is said and doneevil’s had its final runrapine… roughshod… squanderedLife and care unmoored, plunderedLove comes gently… softlyEmbers of h.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2858254/ We thought we’d fought…Fought the battle and won…Believed we could relax,give up the hard run.But the truth is…We didn’t see the sad truth…We had only just begun.We sat back resting…resting on our self-lauded laurels…convincing ourselves we&rsquo.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2857187/ We are star stuff walking on stardust. In stellar crucibles, what we are was born. From stardust, we all coalesced. The universe is in us because we are in it.We are the same as the stars and planets.All the galaxies and people… we are star stuff walking on s.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2855816/ A writer-activism poem about the Palestine, Ohio train derailment disaster http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2842344/ A poem for Valentine's 2023, for my husband of 31+ years. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2841472/ A poem about the seconds and heartbeats of Death, Life, and Love. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2840669/ Where I was and what I did that tragic morning http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2828183/ Uvalde http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2820025/ …and for Ukraine The Russian missles rained down… bombs falling on civilians. Fragments were found to have "for the children" painted one them in Russian. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2813364/ Oh… give me a real bookAh… the creaking of the bindingthe cover becoming a walla barrier from humdrum nowLet me feel its weight in my handsI want to sink into its pages reveling in the smell of ithear the crinkling of its pagesas I lovingly turn each oneevery page a bright doora d.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2810674/ Mother's tears flowmarking tracks in ashAsh settled on her faceas bombs rained downMother’s tears fallmarking a face coatedcoated in ash and bloodAsh and blood on tiny cheeksMother’s tears rain downon hands tremblingas she takes up armsto fell some other mothe.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2810061/ My poem for my husband for Valentine's 2022 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2804944/ We pray, O dearest Lord. We pray for kindness and love, for compassion and empathy… for blessings of hope and peace… We pray for these in every heart.We pray, in Christ’s name. We pray for the days when humankind will look… will look upon one another without baleful judgem.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2797008/ Inspired by desperate bout of depression and anxiety of someone achingly dear to me. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2794261/ I struggle to see because of completely curable cataracts. I've had one of the eyes corrected and am awaiting the second. We've already gone into debt for the corrective lenses for both eyes. Please help me by going to my Amazon author's page to buy my ebooks. Insurance pays most of the surgery. HOW.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2782443/ Trump lies kill Americans… shackling hate and drowning hope… His only legacy… …a legacy of death http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2761287/ Heavenly Father… merciful Lord… God of all…We pray in all things Your glory may be magnified.You see how many hate so unreasoningly. You have heard the false witness preached daily,Chaos and injustice spoken in Your name Lord. We thank You for giving us eyes to see and.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/2489061/