Poetry Archive

Most recent poems published:

  • Floating

    Floating

    My toes, First to touch, Emerald green hues, Turquoise sparkling, Liquid light. Read more

  • Over and Under

    Over and Under

    Trusting the untrustworthy is foolish and will only ever lead to more pain. Avoid that life pattern for your own sake, won’t you? Read more

  • An Ocean of Tears

    An Ocean of Tears

    Infinite are my tears, as is my rage, choose your trigger, I’ll change the emotion to match… it’s my nature to do so! Read more

  • Sandless Shores

    Sandless Shores

    Time washes all anew, but never away. Give grief time to heal. Read more

  • What You Taught Me

    What You Taught Me

    From your passing, Through my world, I learned three important lessons. One, Takers take… Read more

  • The Day You Left

    The Day You Left

    The day that you left, Was horrifically reminiscent Of death. You weren’t ever looking, Were you? Read more

  • Sinking Memory

    Sinking Memory

    Sinking, Are these days, Of time and mist, Sinking, Are the memories, Of you and me… Read more

  • No One

    No One

    Let no one cohabitate on your island, Let them not plant flowers, Nor trees… For when they leave, which they always do, By death… Or worse, by choice… All they planted dies. Read more

  • Call to Action

    Call to Action

    When the storms come for you, Do you run? Do you hide? Or stand in their eye… Read more

  • Learn to Swim

    Learn to Swim

    When you sink, Learn to swim, To stay afloat, To bob around until safety can be found. Read more

  • When You Sink

    When You Sink

    When a ship sinks, No one sees to where she goes… My ship sank… Read more

  • Plant Yourself

    Plant Yourself

    Root down. Look up. Read more

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For further comforting and confronting, turn to the pages of Ana Maria Santuario…
Faith, In Stories That Change, front cover - an image of a man standing on burned, desolate land, looking up to the stars.
A Journey of Subtraction, front cover displays an autumnal tree with an empty tree at the base, inviting readers to sit and subtract pieces of The Self.
Safer Shores of Me, front cover a white rose washed u[ on the shores of an unknown, but safe land.

Feel like contemplating the world outside of yourself? Read Ana Maria’s, Letters to the World…