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Disabled Dreamer

Author: Nicole Kinzel

  • Announcement Time

    It is time to meet the accumulation of my work over the last year. Meet “Fragments of a Dreaming Mind”, a collection of edited poetry organized into book form. A little under 300 of my creative writing pieces with many of which will be familiar to the people that read here often. My usual themes…

  • I Can Make It Poem

    My soul outpaces my body. Seeing a future I have yet to reach. Echoing in whispers I say to myself. Those colors of confidence are so close to that of pride. But I don’t mind. *** They are are as fragile as an eggshell. Broken just as quickly. But anything thrown fast enough can become…

  • Find Peace Poem

    Peace never left. It only changed locations. Moving from place to place like a leapfrog. Fleeting beauty the afterimage. As intangible as the twilight blue before night It is difficult to keep it in sight. *** I have faith that you will find peace again. People have always been good with creating tools to help.…

  • Rose Gold Poem

    My heart is soft. Pulling apart at the smallest pry. As sensitive as the petals of a flower. Bruising but not breaking. It still has the chance to heal. *** What it is made of is the essence of rose gold. A more natural hue than blinding gold. Soft but stronger than what might be…

  • Road Fog Poem

    I walk alone in the dark. The world continues on. Lit up in the red and white of taillights. I feel the harsh heat and stench of cars I carefully pass behind. I have to reach where I am going too. I have a home as well. *** My eyes fall to the road and…

  • The Answer Poem

    I hear your call. Offered beauty. No, a rose on a tombstone. You feared that you might dry alone and return to the earth. But your value is more important to me. You are not fated to rot in the rain. *** You offered me a garden. Let me make you mine. A keepsake pressed…

  • In The Calm Poem

    She is there in the calm. I wish you could meet her. A location that never stays in one place for very long. Somewhere separate from excitement and misery. Often locked away in a dream. But if you look carefully and asked politely, might be borrowed for a time. *** She is so beautiful. Uniquely…

  • Too Much Poem

    I worry that it might be too much. My plate too small to receive all. I get more and more even when I feel a limit was reached. Pushing on even with all the weight. I feel like the plate might break. Sometimes I wish it would. *** I would rather eat it off the…

  • Do Not Say Poem

    Please do not say what I think you will. Let my assumption of the worst be incorrect. Fears left un reinforced to collapse like a house of cards. My idea of a better future left intact. Destructive patterns abandoned to the past. Please protect my heart in the way only you can. *** Please do…

  • Fallback Poem

    The command comes down. I feel it in my bones like ice on my teeth. Nobody needs to tell me what it means. My body responds before my brain comprehends. That word is ingrained in my DNA. The very reason why I continue to breathe. *** I fallback like a sunset. Close to the dark…