Susie Clevenger > Quotes

“I am lost in my world,
invisible - unknown.
Moon please lend me
your light that someone
will me see me.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“If there is passion, let me feel its heat.
I want my heart to beat fast,
my breath raspy, my skin to burn.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“Foggy nights bring some comfort.
He can get lost in the mist
and there is no one to stare or question.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.”
― Susie Clevenger

“A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it.”
― Susie Clevenger

“But the walls of my resolve
mortared with stubbornness
have been breached
by circumstances
I cannot handle alone.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“I am a butterfly poet
birthed from pain
flying with the freedom
of my verses.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“How do I learn to speak
when silence is all I know?”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“I didn't know the demons
that walked across your memory.
They came from the dust
when you were at peace
in your grave.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.
Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“Let me live my final days whole.
Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.

Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.
I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“If you wish to know me,
just ask.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“Tears gather on my cheeks
mimicking the stars diamond
quilting the sky.”
― Susie Clevenger, Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration

“christmas ghosts visit
rearranging emotions
tears waltz among smiles”
― Susie Clevenger, Fragments: Haiku and Verse of Seasons

“Life goes on in the same manner,
evil wins and peace is slaughtered.
Change the channel, change the view,
tired of the same reruns on the evening news.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“Life is a poem
just waiting to be written,
lift your pen and speak.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

“tinseled trees shimmer
in the electric mood spin
of frantic whimsy”
― Susie Clevenger, Fragments: Haiku and Verse of Seasons

“There are no stones
honeycombed into
an abusive tongue
strong enough
to clip my wings.”
― Susie Clevenger, Splinters

“plucking sense
from a liar’s tongue
is rather
like dancing
on fire to embrace scarring.”
― Susie Clevenger, Splinters

“When I became too tall, too loud,
too strong, I became invisible.”
― Susie Clevenger, Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration

“i remember dying trees inside that needed some shock therapy”
― Susie Clevenger, Fragments: Haiku and Verse of Seasons

“Your journey to heaven is coming
faster than I can breathe.”
― Susie Clevenger, Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration

“Empathy’s drain has robbed
stars from our lanterns.”
― Susie Clevenger, Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration