Tailored to Fit

Light leans into love. Itโ€™s felt in full when open to fright and freedom. Experienceโ€”the catalyst of the unknown and unknowableโ€”words that mean little. I find sovereignty in simplifying. In owning ignorance and the insight it offers. Awareness, both confounding and comforting. I wear it like a blanketโ€”tailored to fitโ€”an uncommon and unparalleled gift.ย 


ยฉJeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



Expression Nourishes

Prudent purpose plagues me. Itโ€™s all

consuming, and expects too much.

The words fill a void without.

meaning, itโ€™s consumption to

consume.ย  I find solace in the

comfortlessness. Its expression

nourishes, andย its silence confounds.

It leaves me little rest. I am

compressed within, and tested and

tried in a world built on sin.


ยฉJeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



Crafty Presence

Dread feels like pressure. It fills all available spaces with its crafty presence. I hold onto promise, and its weightlessness, knowing anxiety is waitingโ€”I can feel it just under my skin, like tiny rivulets. As peace beckons me, a faint breeze of calming awareness hintsโ€”itโ€™s all transitory. You, me, all the things we feel and see, are all a part of the same self-created story.ย 


ยฉJeff Fleschu

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



Wear and Weather

Preoccupation and persistence found

perfection.

We met under the stars, andย 

talked until dawn.ย 

You were a shadow of the clouds,

mysterious and luminous.

I hid against the sand dunes

sparkling with wear and weather.ย 

Drift wood stood between us

daring the other to signal acceptance.

Iโ€™ve seen you beforeย 

when it was impossible to say more.ย 

A faint hello was all I could manage.

I found life difficult, and struggled to

maintain balance.ย ย 

Even now, I fight with reality, did we

speak or did I imagine.ย 

A life along the sand, and in the

dunes, can bring about such damage.ย 


ยฉJeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



I Flew Next to The Sun

You told me to wait.

I did, and sat and drank.ย 

Troubled, with ideas blurry and blind

I fell into a hole,

and flew next to the sun. It was funย 

and stayed the same andย 

was all that anyone needed to grow.

Depression comes in waves.ย 

In a mind filled with worry, and body

filled with tension.ย 

you probably didnโ€™t knowย 

nor did you feel the need to mention.ย 

You and I always happen.ย 

The world comes into view, and with

a silent and persistent acquiescenceย 

falls away

until itโ€™s time for the next show.ย 


ยฉJeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



A Tempest

The waves crash.ย 

Dusted diamonds linger

upon the sand. An offeringย 

of life and death, and a reminderย 

of truth and sacrificeโ€”hypocrisy.

Love lives in all things, lasting

beyond imagination and illusions of

idlenessโ€”

hope. Tying the tide together,ย 

brings a tempest.ย 

Furious and eager, I love alone, and

pray to the one I call home.ย 


ยฉJeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



Hidden Transformation

you are hidden from view.

recognize the truth

about who you are and want to beโ€”

desire.ย 

nourishes body and mindย 

through prescriptions of faith.

A guide to another world.

becoming apparent through hardship

and lossโ€“realizations.

through murkinessย 

and transformation foundย 

in-waiting.


ยฉJeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



Develop. Inspire. Transform.


A Promise

Breathe

#awareness, #faith, #freedom, #inspiration, #ocean

Speak of Nothing

The truth bears witness to

the sins of our fathers. Remoteย 

undertakings sire disasters, and floodedย 

plains seek growth. New startsย 

with old beginnings, and old with newย 

speak of love.

You, me, and the price we pay

for the pain of loss. Speak of nothing,ย 

for the future tells its own story.

A tale of woe, misery, andย 

a solemn good night.ย 

Have no fear, the sun will always rise.