Category: Poetry

“My Hands” A Motherhood Poem

My Hands

My hands are full

Three kids but

only two arms

A juggling act

for my circus

 

Loud. Demanding

Lights and action

Always action

Never stopping…

 

Baby crying

Writhing. Scratching

Needs a nap

And changed

And fed

Again

Again

But–

 

Toddler screaming

Potty training

Learning to

Control

Emotions

fly off kilter

All pell mell

Stop and yell

and wants a cuddle

wants a snuggle

But–

 

big kid calling

Has a story

Has a book

Has a drawing

Has a dream she wants to share

and a thing she wants to try

But–

 

Spinning, spinning

Getting dizzy

Dishes

Laundry

Cooking

Cleaning

Can’t slow down

The coffee’s draining

(Not complaining)

but—

 

two hands

only two

not one left

for me

for you

what can I say?

It’s out of

my

hands

 

Twenty-Five Hundred Release Date!

New Year, New Book

Starting off the new year with some BIG NEWS.

The wait is nearly over. My short story collection, Twenty-Five Hundred, now has a release date! This book of stories will be available on January 17th.  AND pre-orders for the kindle/e-book version are available now for 1.99!

I’ve been collecting these short stories for the last several years and I can’t even tell you how excited I am to finally be able to share them!

Description:

“A delightful mix of humorous, lighthearted, and more serious contemporary stories and those woven with fantasy and magic. Each piece is exactly 500 words.

Inside these pages . . . A woman resolves to begin a new year on the right foot, with the help of sticky notes … A poem in which a woman in red rushes through an airport to try to catch a plane . . . An excerpt from the novel “Super Me”: an unfortunate interaction with a crush at a coffee shop . . . Two workers of magic meet to perform a secret ritual . . . At a desert marketplace, a child is yanked aside by a mysterious man with an important message . . . While running solo on a trail in the mountains, a woman injures her ankle and thus reflects upon her life’s choices . . . While being held captive by frog-like creatures, a girl makes a high-staked impossible decision . . . A sneak peek at the novel “Run”: a teenage girl is trapped inside a neighbor’s house while zombies take over the world around her . . . and much more.”

Happy New Year! It’s going to be a great year.

 

“Waiting”: A Poem

 

Waiting

 

In the hospital,

I wait.

In the room

I wait.

Alone.

In the middle

of the night,

I wait.

The nurses,

They go by.

They don’t stop.

Won’t tell me

About you.

If you’re okay.

Won’t tell me

If I’m okay.

Because,

How can I be okay

Without you?

I wait.

I tap and I wait.

I bounce my knee,

And I wait.

They called me.

An accident.

I came.

The world in a blur as I came.

Ran to you. Sped to you.

As fast as I could.

But, too late.

They said ‘wait”.

So, I sit. Tap. Bounce. Pray.

And I wait.

Without you.

Here.

I am here.

Waiting.

To find out if I am

Without you.

If I am forever

Alone.

© 2024 Jessica Dazzo

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