The writings of Alecia Shepherd are vast in scope, deep in understanding, saturated with compassion and emotion, capturing the very heart of the human condition and lending its wisdom to the improvement of all who partake of it. Within this section, explore her poetry, her articles and more.
Back seat dreams and blurs for visions… divorced and going out again; wishing I could just have stayed at home. The smell of smoke and alcohol thickening the air… does the woman I call mother even care? Feeling good was all that mattered, whatever that was supposed to mean, and brought along, my childhood shattered […]
I see myself changing, though uncertainty is a good thing for once. I lean out the window as we sail across the asphalt sea to a paradise land. I can’t wait to see the glory of a new sun, thinking, a different sun must shine there than which fails to pierce the wicked gray of […]
Something begins within the bleak, turns and twists and deforms, the conception of a pallid little freak, in the dark murky waters it squirms. Preparing itself for solace and dance, it drinks deep of the toxic fluids; a quagmire womb, its sustenance. Something from the start went wrong, a wretched beast of vile malaise was […]
Hello blue sky! I wonder how you got so high?! How did you make that climb Without the people catching you, Pulling you down and screaming, “You climb too high!” Hello, Mr. Cloud! You look so big and oh so proud! You seem so strong and free, And cast your shadow over me. But, do […]
Who we behold changes who we are. Our new life with him begins as silence and I climb out of the car. Who am I now, will I carry his sins in this hidden little hovel, small and unclean! Is to be our new nowhere home, set in the center of a nowhere scene? The […]