Gypsy Louise

Ruled by the moon, I wear jewelry like armor. Particularly rings, because I like looking at them as I write. My mind is a gypsy that wanders unapologetically. My heart is a homebody, which I'm working on. I am a Sagittarius walking with blind optimism in shoes that are way too tall. I believe that if you sprinkle glitter on something, you automatically up it's ante. I champion small change-- not pennies, although I find them particularly lucky tails up, but rather the small kind of change that occurs when you smile and someone else's day gets a little bit better. I love words because they are not elitist. Some people try and use the fancy ones for show, but ultimately, words are just letters, and there are only 26 of those, and elitism generally occurs after a much higher number. "Writers" simply put words in the right order. It's less like talent and more like a Rubik's Cube... I'm not necessarily sold on the idea that a person who can make all sides the same color is brilliant, however, I am impressed and quite frankly bitter at their ability to do so. I live both in the past and the future but tend to black out in the present... this may be due to a certain level of expectation someone cruel once warned me would never reached; I'll work on that, along with my homebody heart.

LIFE

Spring is a reminder
life will bloom
with or without you.
Bigger than god
is Mother Nature indeed…
man can sit
and bask in his own glory,
but it took a woman
to sow his seed.
And it is the fruits of her mind
rooted in love
that make man see
how words like,
“he”
and “three”
can come to mean
different things
than they did before
yet hold the same weight
if not more.
Like great vessels
Mothers navigate through hell,
man may stand at the helm
but it is she who carries us to shore.
She is you
and she is now her.
Admire what you planted
inhale the sweet aroma
watch as your branches continue to expand
and hold that memory through winter
until Spring can remind you again.