This is the beginning of a series I'm going to work on.  I never really write haikus much, but I've always appreciated writers of this form for their ability to create such a beautiful moment is such a limited space.  Please humor me as I practice :)

Simple Things

Pool reflections float
on our living room ceiling,
a bit of magic. 

     ........

Clean dishes, warm bath.
The clarity of nothing
to do but sit, be.

     ........

Purple petals on
lunch. Delicate reminder
you're still here. I'm yours.

"The first Step is Always the Hardest, so leap."

Bathroom tile inspiration
graffitied  in my favorite colored ink
on the wall that keeps my
current deeds a private matter.
Thank you, perfect purple loving
stranger for easing the mind of a
love sick drifter who needed
that pep talk. Somehow,
it meant more coming from you,
this invisible pen I'll never
put a face to.
You're like that moment when
you should have crashed
but someone, somewhere
was looking out.

Just Thinking...

Definitely a first draft but....

A Sigh and a Smile

When clarity comes easy.

The solutions to my lifelong conundrums

present themselves to me in each person

I pass by, because I find myself much more interested

in people than silver platters.  When I can wake up,

 stretch my arms to Heaven and back and know that

my life is a rubix cube of complication and bliss

and clutter and contentment…and that is

is never going to come together the way that

I would prefer, but that is OK.

When I understand why it can’t be all about me.

When I learn why if I don’t put me first sometimes

I won’t be equipped to be there for others.  When I learn

I can’t help everyone all the time and that I am not

responsible for their happiness or misery.

When I can enter my own thoughts,

and feel safe. 

Kaleigh Lambert 

Thoughts While Watching People Watch the Rain

Exhibition

I get sweet pleasure out of watching

the umbrella being ravished by the rain.

I find it a refreshing notion

to be caught up in the midst

of the wet, tumultuous  madness

that I am being witness to.

To be covered,

soaked with passion, simply,

being taken by the elements

while onlookers, safe and protected

wonder if it is wrong that they wish they

could be me.

Kaleigh Lambert 

A Look Back

So, I wrote this poem that I am about to share with you a long time ago in a poetry workshop course.  It was based on a prompt given to me by me epically wonderful teacher Emily Wall, but like everything I write, it meant much more to me that simply an in class assignment.  It was an expression of how I felt and how I wish I could feel.  I am happy and blessed to say that I have found someone who's arms will wind around me forever.

What is Loneliness?

A widow who sits

Glancing out her window, to the couple holding hands

Snuggling so close that the mist of

Their breath I the cold twilight meets

As though it were simply one persons breathing

They seem to not mind the iron bench beneath them

Which is frigid from the winter night’s breeze

That blows puffs of snow

Over their booted feet

Perhaps their woolen scarves keep them warm

Perhaps their coats, shielding them from the crisp air

Or, more likely

Their arms

Which seem to winds around each other forever

As their chilled cheeks touch in their embrace   

Their silent onlooker,

Up in her window

Is like a lighthouse whose light has burnt out,

And been abandoned by its keeper

But still watches over the ocean

            Kaleigh Lambert

Wow...Apparent;y I am really bad at this

So, I guess I'm blogging again. Ha.  OK, I promise this time that I am actually going to make an attempt to keep up with this.  Forget the fact that I have been distracted by work, love, life and the general world around me....yeah....I'm just lazy when it comes to these things.  Although, in my defense, my computer was being plagued by viruses for a bit.  Anyway, I'm back online and hopefully this thing will actually become a habit for me.  I really do have a lot of thoughts to share through as many interesting means as possible and this does seem like a decent way to do it.  We'll see how this goes.  Hopefully better this time around.

So, I'm Blogging Now

I consistently have people tell me that they love following my "adventures" on facebook.  They like to see the pictures, read the status updates and all that jazz.  I decided that its pretty sad that others get more pleasure out of reading about my life than I currently do living it.  Don't worry, this is not a pity party blog...promise.  I need to, and very much want to, appreciate my life more.  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE life.  However, currently, I'm not enjoying it so much. So, with that said, I am going to start sharing things about my days, weeks, months, years, etc that I find cool, important, interesting, disturbing (probably be a lot of that), weird, etc through this blog.  I'll be doing this through poetry, photos, random thoughts in hopes that anyone interested enough to follow it will stay interested, and in hopes that I will stay interested.  Because, not to brag, but my life is pretty freaking awesome and at times very entertaining.  I just need to learn to appreciate it as much as others seem too.  So, welcome to a day in the life of...me.  Oh, and if I don't post daily...yell at me please :).