Category Archives: Love

Empathology

Posted on June 5, 2024 by sputterpub

I disagree with everyone, and yet,they all seem close to perfect when I lookat challenges and stresses. I forgeteach flaw if I consider how I’d brookhis pain and her neurosis. For I betconfronted with their presents, I’d unhookmy any tether … Continue reading →

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Realization

Posted on May 28, 2024 by sputterpub

I often try imagining how youare sensing now, or what it is to besomebody else. But I don’t have a cluehow it feels to be clinically depressed.Although I can be low at times, or blue,my serotonin levels must be good.So … Continue reading →

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Amputation

Posted on May 18, 2024 by sputterpub

Remembering a woman 40 yearsago, who birthed a daughter long-desired,and then confessed to me, voice choked with tears,she couldn’t love the baby as required…It wasn’t that she’d harm the child – no –but deep attachment didn’t fill her soul.Two years … Continue reading →

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Getting Together

Posted on May 13, 2024 by sputterpub

In person is more suitable than phone.We get along so well when face to face.We both enjoy our habitats aloneand daily chat, but when I leave my placeand you do too, we meet and neither’s thrownby attitude. It isn’t an … Continue reading →

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Grudging

Posted on April 26, 2024 by sputterpub

Conversing with my brother, we recalledoccasions when a loved one acted poorly:the time a sibling of the bride appalled;or when his wife tried hurting my kid sorely.I mentioned mine has not yet overhauledher heart to allocate forgiveness surely.Our tone was … Continue reading →

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A Personal Tragedy in 3 Acts

Posted on April 24, 2024 by sputterpub

The baby triggered his pathology(or that’s the way his arc appears from here).Her birth engendered protectivity,erecting walls that ceiled the atmosphere,that met in peaks to close off light and air,and when the breathless spouse declared them done,the wound re-opened (one … Continue reading →

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Biography of a Partnership

Posted on April 18, 2024 by sputterpub

They both were functional but somewhat strange.She processed puzzles differently than most.And he missed conversational exchange(he smiled but would fail to thank a host).Yet he, in natural bent to engineerand she, abrim most days with earnest thought,communicated well, by eye … Continue reading →

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Mating Game

Posted on April 5, 2024 by sputterpub

I never found a soulmate, but I didn’t search for long.I had no faith his feet were on the earth.I harbored fancies in my head, but facts were always strong,and likelihood was where I lived since birth.The mating game seemed … Continue reading →

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A Brother’s Gift

Posted on March 27, 2024 by sputterpub

I didn’t want the picture-frame device.I never would have bought it for myself.I hinted my reluctance, once or twice,but someone sent it to me anyway(who’s spent a lifetime deaf to my advice).Regifting wouldn’t work – he might have feltlike I’d … Continue reading →

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New Words

Posted on March 16, 2024 by sputterpub

Of course the kids are lovable and bright,but one, who here is nameless, rings my bell.They each caught how to build a sentence rightbut this one utters language awesome well.If they have an idea but don’t know quitethe term to … Continue reading →

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