SimplyRead

A member of the Occaneechi Saponi Tribe, Debbie was born in a small town in North Carolina. She is a writer, poet, and aspiring author working to create a small patch of compassion and shed light on how we are more alike than different, connected than than separate and loved than not. Her poetry has been published by the Voices Project and she has a spiritual work published on Amazon, entitled, The Dead Breathe. She currently lives in Sonoma, California.

Please feel free to get in touch via the form below.

SimplyRead Publishing
simplyreadpublishing@gmail.com

The purpose of this website and blog is really two fold. First, as a writer and poet, of course, I would like to utilize this space to share my work and message. That’s really the business part.

Second and foremost, I hope if you read any of my work, it will allow you feel all of the emotions that we are blessed to be privy to in this life and they quietly awaken your soul.  Because once even a sliver of the soul has been awakened…it continues to whisper until the owner looks it in the eye.

Enjoy the journey and always live from the inside out,

Deb

WINGS OF MAN

Butterfly; flittering all around without direction,
hypnotizing all with your colorful beauty
and your constant search for the sweet.
 
No worries; no cares,
after your tumultuous journey,
that only you can appreciate.
 
Seeming to smile; after your forced metamorphosis,
everyone looks in amazement and wonder,
aware of the pain and suffering of your life.
 
You were forced to trust the earth
and unsavory bypassers,
vulnerable in the midst of chaotic change. Yet,
 
you seem to joyfully embrace the earth;
giving beauty and life,
unaware of your significance.
 
Having given in
to what is,
to Being.
 
Having changed under the command of another;
having emerged, still unsure
Yet strong, beautiful,
Delicate.
 
Listening to and being directed by the winds,
by the breath of the daisy that invites you in,
telling you the secrets of life.
 
You are stronger still, knowing now;
the wings that before were only a dream,
an ache.
 
Your wings,
where they take you is
limitless.

written and copyrighted by Debbie Whitmore