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Welcome Home is a heartfelt song and poem about the enduring pull of home, love, and belonging. Through images of a candle glowing in a window, a porch light left on, and a key waiting beneath the mat, the lyrics capture the comfort of knowing there is always a place where you are remembered and welcomed. Whether separated by distance, time, or life’s winding journey, the song speaks to the unbreakable connection between a traveler and the people who hold them in their hearts. Warm, nostalgic, and hopeful, Welcome Home is a tribute to the idea that no matter where life takes us, there is always a light shining to guide us back home.

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This poem explores how easily people can misunderstand what they do not immediately recognize or comprehend. At first, the speaker views the man as intense, aggressive, and even frightening because his language and emotional delivery seem unfamiliar. The growing tension creates the expectation of anger or conflict, yet the sudden laughter reveals the entire moment was humorous rather than threatening. In that instant, understanding replaces fear and judgment.

Often in life, especially in today’s divided world, people react to unfamiliar voices, cultures, emotions, or expressions with suspicion before truly listening or understanding. The poem reminds readers that misunderstanding can create false narratives in our minds. Once context is revealed, fear can dissolve instantly, “just like that.”

The final line, “And I laughed as I awoke,” suggests it may also be symbolic of awakening from ignorance, prejudice, or emotional misunderstanding. It reflects the realization that truth is often very different from what we first imagine, and that genuine understanding requires patience, humility, and openness.

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I wrote Let Me Introduce You to The Blues from a place of lived honesty, not theory. To me, the blues isn’t just sadness, it’s awareness. It’s what happens when we stop blaming the world outside and start looking inward. I’m speaking to the part of us that believes a new city, a new relationship, or a new horizon will fix what feels broken inside. I’ve stood there too, staring across the Hudson River and thinking somewhere else might make me whole.

But wherever we go, we carry ourselves with us.

This poem isn’t about judgment. It’s about boundaries, responsibility, and the quiet truth that we can’t rescue each other from our own struggles. The blues is not hopelessness, it’s clarity. It’s the moment illusions fall away and we stop running long enough to face what’s real.

I wrote this as an invitation to sit with the blues, because sometimes that’s where freedom begins.

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There, is a reflective poem about persistence, frustration, and forward motion. I explore the tension between dreams and reality, the refusal to surrender creativity, and the quiet determination to keep moving toward a destination that may never fully be reached.

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When Christmas arrives, I think the world feels softer and friendlier. Smiles come easier, laughter lingers. This poem & song are for that brief magic, and the wish that the warmth & wonder of Christmas could last every day. #poetry #originalmusic #writingcommunity #writer Carol: shorturl.at/EiPmb

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Valentino is a poem that lingers in the quiet places, where the glow of late-night movies softens the room and memory presses close. It’s a portrait of love that doesn’t demand a spotlight, a devotion measured not in grand gestures but in the simple act of staying.

As the silver-screen heroes sweep your breath away, the poem offers something humbler, truer: presence. A promise to return when the glow fades, to love without costume or script.

In the soft echo of “If I were Valentino,” the poem reveals its heart, longing, yes, but also acceptance. A gentle reminder that real love isn’t always cinematic.

Sometimes it’s just two people, side by side in the dark, choosing each other when the credits roll.

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This poem is about life and the idea that it’s sometimes like being swept up by something larger than yourself, forced to climb “treacherous mountains” and tumble down “rolling hills. Resistance doesn’t stop the motion, you just have to ride it out.
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.“Old Love” is a poem I wrote about a yearning for something genuine, enduring, and rooted in the heart.
Simple yet deeply felt, a reminder that true love doesn’t fade,it deepens with time.

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A reflective poem exploring the stories written on our faces, age, experience, joy, pain, and everything in between. This piece invites listeners to look beyond the surface and consider what’s behind every expression. In this episode, I share the poem and dive into the ideas that inspired it, offering thoughts that might resonate with your own experiences.

Get the podcast on Spotify for the spoken word version of the poem, the podcast and the song I see your face or download them here.

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A reflective poem exploring the stories written on our faces, age, experience, joy, pain, and everything in between.
The video and the song were written and developed during Covid.

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