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Cheryl Wood

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Sad Times

Grief
Tears flow
Regrets abound
Ask forgiveness

Choose Happiness

Smile
Lips curl
Eyes sparkle
Extend the feel

Grieve

Beloved sisters
Surprising, suddenly gone
Family feels lost
Shock waves to befuddled minds
Is this a god’s cosmic joke?

No Plans

life unpredicted
say your prayers if you believe
cling to the hopeful
somewhere over the rainbow
where colorful still exists

Attitude

live and love wildly
life can be seen a bummer
make it a party
roll with unpredictable
enjoy everything at will

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Cheryl Wood is a mom and grandmother who enjoys scribbling some words, hopefully with humor. She started writing in 2015 after a second bout of cancer to keep busy while recuperating. Cheryl was featured in 2020 and in 2022. You can find her work HERE. Selected pieces of her work were published in The Short of It – Volume 1 – The Sound of Brilliance and in Reflections & Revelations.

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I Know

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Inspired by What do you see #232

come
fall into my arms
let me take away your despair

i want to hold you
as the pain passes
from substantial to weightless

take all the time you need
let it all out
it’s okay

soon you’ll feel the heavy sobs lessen
and see the tears dry up
as your breath rhythmically calms down

bud, i promise
you’ll make it through
to this new reality

Left Behind

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Broken lives and stolen dreams.
Our past owned us.

Then I broke free.
You remained bound.

Moving forward was not your gig.
Clinging to safety in the known.

I was searching for more than
dying in the doldrums of security.

Sanity was calling my name.

One Of The Boys

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Inspired by What do you see #223

playful and joyous
second only due to birth
his name is uncle

Held Prisoner

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Igor Morski

Inspired by Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Hospitality &
Reena’s Xploration Challenge #315

if only you would have afforded
the wounded inner child
the hospitality it deserved

trauma that needed nurture
saw minimal healing
shocking independence reigned
to the detriment of your essence

years upon years cycled by
as the dysfunction learned
predetermined the outcome
of the next generation
to be lost

Glee

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Inspired by What do you see#218

loved ones laughter
where one giggle ends
then another begins

their joy
palpable

rubbing off on me

Foreboding

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Feelings of anguish.
The call came expectedly.
“We lost her today.”

Originally posted October 1, 2018, on I Write Her.

Good Connections

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find ties to keep you grounded
those friends and family
offering safety, laughter, and respect
as well as a feeling of being home

those that know your past
yet ooze love and acceptance
while fiercely protecting your future

those offering shelter
tending your wounds as needed

honor those bonds

Loud

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kept down
held back
filled with fear
and rage 

despair at every turn
me, an unwilling victim
blockades to stop me
turbulence swirling me about

My history embedded a lack of power in me.
Years of criticism, critique, and disgust took its toll.
Thick layers of neglect crusted over on this shell of me.
Defeated, ignored, and scared.

But I dared to feel more important than what the day rolled out.
I fought to experience life exquisitely, with the volume on high.
Determined to engage with this existence full of substance and force.
I clutched myself hard and pushed forward to lean loudly into my future.

Not gonna hide from it anymore.

Originally published September 26, 2018, on I Write Her.

Real

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with my tribe there’s peace
calm, protective connections
there’s an ease with them

Originally published September 24, 2018 on I Write Her.