April 2018 – Page 4 – FEMININE COLLECTIVE

Solution

April 9, 2018October 15, 2018 Rachelle Cameron

I tell her “not today” I tell her “watch me eat” She chuckles “sure you will feel free to try” I breathe deeply She’s exhausting to fight she knows it Sometimes letting her have her way is the easiest solution to my problems Photo Credit: Dear, max Flickr via Compfight Read more

Learning to Thrive

April 9, 2018May 7, 2019 Dana Boyer

In July 2014, in Okinawa, Japan, I got pregnant with our second boy. Fresh off a miscarriage and two months before we were due to move eastward across the Pacific, this little one was anything but planned. I know the trend today is to say ‘We are pregnant’, emphasizing the Read more

Tears

April 8, 2018October 15, 2018 Christina Strigas

I thought when you lost your job you would need me more but your weakness divided us; your travels stopped those visits ceased to exist. I think too much of how your body on mine was a missing puzzle piece you could not throw away. One afternoon or one lifetime Read more

Those Three Words

April 8, 2018August 13, 2021 John Michael Antonio

Those three words Are an insurrection and a Judgment upon their hypocrisy Syllables and sounds of A personal revolution That I once thought You could say too often But now know When looking at you That I can’t say enough Because in your eyes They become Life’s only best hope Read more

Blind Ambition

April 6, 2018August 29, 2021 Ruth Edgett

If Tina wasn’t so damn hard, I probably wouldn’t be doing this, but even a dog gets tired of being kicked after a while. In a year and a half, I’ll be eighteen anyway, so cutting out early’s no big whoop. Wonder if she even knows I’m gone. The manager Read more

Borders

April 6, 2018October 15, 2018 Eris Gentle

When we embrace, the place Where your skin ends And mine begins Vanishes with a sigh– Photo Credit: Eric Kilby Flickr via Compfight cc

Fake It Until You Kill Yourself

April 5, 2018September 18, 2018 Richard DeFino

This isn’t a poem or a blog post. This isn’t a satirical article or a cry for help. It’s just a simple question. “What will be the price you pay for complacency? To what end will you run me rampant and into the ground, head first kicking and screaming? How Read more

Unheard Screaming: Silent Misunderstood Me

April 4, 2018May 7, 2019 Kristina Farrow

Those peering into the lives of those of us who struggle with mental health, perplexed as to why we seem to have potential to live “better” but just continue to make bad choices that impact us negatively and cause us to be of concern to their normal married with children Read more