Poetry

"Change is the only constant..."

K.E. Risen is an avid reader who did her B.A. in creative writing and English and now writes poetry and speculative fiction on the beautiful west coast. She is a huge Harry Potter fan who secretly wants to date Snape.

"...Our voices Suppressed, Our hearts Denied..."

"...Delight me for a while."

"...You could shoot at Achilles' heel..."

"...Where there is no day and night..."

"2020, she said, you had better know this..."

"Knight in Shining Armor" -- first in a series of poems. "...A shadowy figure as pale as the breeze..."

"...I am never an outlaw, but I am a rebel to a lost cause..."

The first in a series of poems with three-line stanzas.

"The trick was dancing the news..."

"...no better sensation..."

"You've cut work and feel free, giddy like the time you played hooky from sixth grade..."

"...The thief of our time comes in stealth..."

"...let a blanket of sky swaddle me in its splendor..."

Nature has a way...

"...carrying weeds of sorrow, muds of pain..."

"...they all have perfect bodies..."

"...at times words bruise us..."

"Don't buy them, not yet..."

"...what do you want to do when you grow up?..."

"...We stay home alone/ And work via phone..."

"...Songs echo through shadows of once bright lives..."

"...I'm just glad you see me in any color..."

"...This path was carved for me..."

"...In one split second everything changed..."

"...My mother liked things to be right..."

"...purling and deep from snow-melt..."

"...During these turbulent times, salute a nurse!..."