Alive | sometimesihatemycat

The Beginning

• October 22, 2021 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Body, Death, Identity, Loss, Nature, Poetry
Tags: Alive, ashes, Beginning, Death, Desperation, End, Ending, Phoenix, Soot, Survival

Nocturne

• April 4, 2020 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Body, Humanity, Identity, Music, Poetry
Tags: Alive, Human, humanity, Isolation, Music, Night, Nocturne, numb, piano, Poetry, Quarantine, Relief, Sobbing, Tchaikovsky, Tears

Proof of Life

• September 7, 2017 • 3 Comments

Posted in Body, Death, Identity, Loss, Love, Poetry, Writing
Tags: Alive, Chapter, Draft, grief, Grieving, heart, Life, Loss, Love, pain, Poetry, Proof, Writing, Writing Process

Half Full

• May 6, 2017 • 3 Comments

Posted in Body, Humanity, Identity, Love, Poetry
Tags: Alive, Blood, Body, Brave, Bravery, Hands, heart, Instinct, Living, Open, Optimism, Passion, Poetry, Pulse, Reaching

I Remain

• January 4, 2017 • 4 Comments

Posted in Body, Humanity, Identity, Loss, Love, Poetry
Tags: Alive, Body, Control, Defiance, Drive, Food, hope, Hungry, Life, Love, Meal, Poetry, Remain, Will

The Switch

• October 27, 2016 • 7 Comments

Posted in Body, Death, Family, Humanity, Identity, Loss, Love, Marriage, Poetry
Tags: Alive, Demolish, Demolition, Frankenstein, Halloween, Monster, October, Poetry, Rebuild, Renew, Renovation, System

Slippery

• November 7, 2015 • 3 Comments

Posted in Body, Death, Humanity, Identity, Meditation, Poetry
Tags: Alive, Bleeding, Blood, Body, meditation, numb, poetry, Slippery, Stitch, Vein

My Keeper

• November 4, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Death, Humanity, Meditation, Poetry
Tags: Alive, Anatta, Anicca, anxiety, Clock, Death, Dukkha, Fear, Impermanence, Life, meditation, now, poetry, present moment, Time

Full

• February 24, 2015 • 2 Comments

Posted in Body, Death, Humanity, Identity, Meditation, Poetry
Tags: Alive, Anatta, Anicca, Body, Change, Death, Emptiness, Impermanence, Life, meditation, No-self, poetry, Zen

A Human Practice

• November 18, 2014 • 2 Comments

Posted in Body, Death, Family, Humanity, Meditation, Nature, Poetry
Tags: Alive, Anatta, Anicca, Buddhist, Craving, Desire, Dukkha, Food, Haiku, Human, Hypocrisy, Impermanence, meditation, Non-Buddhist, poetry, Safety, Sex, Shelter, SNB