Tag: inspiration

Forthcoming Oracle/Affirmation Deck!

Tara A. Lesko - Writer

So I did a thing. I made my own affirmation/oracle card deck using my own artwork and photography. I just wanted to get a sense of who would consider getting this deck for yourself or somebody else. This is my only copy right now, and if I had more made I would have to sell them at $25. It’s a 42 card deck, though not all are pictured here (keeping the rest a surprise 🙂) and a digital guidebook with accompanying stories and poems is forthcoming. Let me know what you all think. 😊❤️🤩🌎💨🌊🔥🌹

My Homage to T

Tara A. Lesko - Writer

after Patricia L. Goodman

You are a test of existence, T

All challenges and hopes fused together in a tight torsion. 

Your presence in time didn’t tell me when to trek those mountains

or wander those twisted trails. 

You are part of what I teach – tall tales about what the world 

was and could be. Tattered promises and gentle lies 

stirred together in a tasty soup. 

For some reason you don’t keep my tires intact for too long.

Tell me it’s to keep me on my toes, to keep me 

from letting everything wear down until it’s too tempestuous 

to keep moving or growing into the hot, twisted mess I need to be.

T, you are the largest molecules that make tears. 

Tumultuously, you are the cross I wear proudly in tantalizing storms.

D Story

Tara A. Lesko - Writer

Damn it! 

I did it again. 

I forgot to tie dandelions into crowns 

as I sat in the dirt writing the occasional 

death poem.

I forgot to change “dessert” to “desert” 

in the part of the story when he leaves 

the table to message his new darling.

Dusk seems to be the only time I remember 

to turn on a dime, to the beat of my own drummer.

Dawn is when I dread swallowing drugs 

and dancing with cliches. 

One day, I forgot to keep drinking in the deluge 

of your daring words.

Now I won’t dare let them disappear in the desk drawer. 

I need your daunting verse the way a dahlia 

needs blackish purple to be beautiful and dangerous. 

I need your distance the way the darkest night 

demands stars to disappear.