This misfit place
with its strange little freaks
the isle of the weird
the home of the geeks
I’m often alone here
though, sometimes I’m not
a friend will come calling
never someone I’ve sought
an oddball, a loner
someone peculiar, like me
then I look around and realize
how we’re all crammed together
just so different, but the same
on an endless blue sea
“This Misfit Place” -Melissa Kircher
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we are
the authors of our own souls
choices pressing
decided at
the whim of a gust of wind
conclusions
crazy
wonderful
the bloom of new life
springing from gray matter
dark energy turned green
we are the committee
the judge and jurors
what glorious freedom
in the creation
of a thousand indispensable breaths
Committee Meeting
-Melissa Kircher
Picture and Poem created in response to the “We Are The Committee” Robcast episode by Rob Bell.
there is this deep laugh you do
when unconcerned with anything but
the absolute delight of the moment
it’s not pink
or sparkly
it doesn’t wear a tiara
or wait for a prince
guttural, from your belly
blue eyes alight
you laugh
like a middle-aged trucker
or a tipsy Irishman finishing his punchline
when you laugh like this
awash in pure essence
fully yourself
not girl
not daughter
just you
I know God exists
and that we are meant to find this world
hilarious.
Nora’s Laugh
-Melissa Kircher
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she is standing in front of three hundred people
pure energy zinging through her bones
she ducks her head under the wave of a pain swell
only to be met with a wall of water
on the other side
she is trembling, sweating hearing no
and she takes it
she is what roars from the ashes of an agony-charred heart
lightning strikes and her muscles coil—taut
ready to warrior spring
she is learning to pad softly through the thicket
to move in tune with the breath of the air
she is beauty
she is strength
she is a woman finding her voice
only to die to it
she is the village elder who has seen a thousand battles
and finally
finally
understands when to fight and when to tread carefully
like a huntress, and listen
“Lioness” -Melissa Kircher
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