Justine Dell

Promise #poetry

2018-01-15T11:39:00.000-05:00

Promise

My sight is clear

Eternal hope sinks into my soul

You're the wind rushing over me,

Lifting the hairs along my skin,

Sweeping away all hurt,

Filling me with glow, a determination

A devotion

Your passion lights me from within

Your affection lulls any pain

Your love fills me completely

Forever is my promise

And my promise is yours

~JD

The storm #poetry

2018-01-08T09:00:00.000-05:00

The Storm

It’s the moment you realize how quickly you can be crushed.

How rapidly you crumble.

Love should be warmth and light.

But this was so cruel, so swift.

No time to stop and think. Consider.

The words continue to spin around you, a tornado you can’t escape.

Slashing your heart, bending and breaking your soul, your spirit.

Life tilts, uncomfortably. You question your worth. Stability.

Your very happiness.

You flick the tears away, suck in the soft sobs.

And pray for the end of the storm.

The Old, The New #poetry

2018-01-02T09:00:00.000-05:00

The Old, The New

It is done

Damaged, bent, and broken

Jagged pink lines scar my thoughts, my soul

My paper thin skin squeezes my body,
Flaking off like the paint from the hundred year old house down the lane

My heart shrunken, shriveled with tattered veins

Each step more difficult than the one before

I know this day will be my last...

The peek of dawn appears on the glistening white horizon

Cheers and celebration flow into my ears, igniting something new, different.

Beats thrum through me, awakening my cells, shaking off the worn

Time fades away

Scars fade

Hurt heals

Blood rushes through my veins, strengthening my heart

I straighten, my body shedding the last feelings of old

With a renewed hope and a smile, I step into 2018

A New Year's Gift to You

2017-12-29T12:44:00.000-05:00

Let's just cut to down to the chase. It's almost a new year. It's time to do new things. Including reading. In light of this new an amazing year, I give you a gift:

HALF of my ebooks will be free on Amazon starting 1/1, and the other HALF are only 99 cents. CLICK ME!

Spread the joy and gift and reading.

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Now on to the regularly scheduled post for the new year.

Wow.

2018.

Not too long ago I realized that I started writing over 10 years ago. While that writing has created some amazing pieces of works (some even published), it also allowed to meet some absolutely amazing people and do some pretty amazing things.

Like some, I faded in and out of the writing world over the years. Life took hold and my passion for several things took the back burner. This past year in particular was a difficult, yet life changing and incredible. I sit here today, beyond blessed and hopeful for what may come.

You may have noticed that all the posts on this blog are now poetry, something I've started to dabble in a wee bit. It's my plan to mix this poetry with some of the Justine that some of you may remember. The one with random posts and advice and maybe just weird stuff (because that's what I am).

I don't write New Year's resolutions, but I would like to say that I'm hoping to accomplish some unspoken things this year. I want to do more than I did last year, grow more, learn more, be more.

As repeated from above, in light of this new an amazing year, I give you a gift:

HALF of my ebooks will be free on Amazon starting 1/1, and the other HALF are only 99 cents. CLICK ME! Spread the joy and gift and reading.

And as always, be amazingly you.

~JD

I am not broken #poetry

2017-09-18T08:07:00.000-04:00

I am not broken

Why can't you see you are hurting me?

Why can't you see I'm not as strong as you?

My thoughts and feelings are a raging river flowing through me.

Your laughter and disdain coat me with lava, halting my emotions, searing every inch of me.

Do you not respect my feelings? Me?

Can you not see this is who I am? What I am?

It's love or leave.

Respect of walk away.

Understand or go.

So go.

The End #poetry

2017-07-24T21:00:00.000-04:00

The End

I sit here, weak and dreary

My eyes swollen, dark and teary

Each breath I take, tight and shaky

The wind feels like sand, coarse and breaking

Did you know I would feel like this?

It’s like the earth moved and I didn’t

Yet, I’m spinning out of control

With a life that doesn’t have you in it.

The sun no long wakens me early in the morning

The sounds of your voice no longer cradles me

That should’ve been my first warning

Darkness rocks me to sleep now, its cold breath chills my bones

I wear loneliness like a blanket, oh, how I wish I would’ve known

You’ll be fine, they say, the pain will fade with time

But this isn’t their ache, their sorrow has never fallen in this line

I pray the end is near, for another day will surely kill me

But I’ve been told the agony never fades

Only ebbs and flows like the sea

I must conclude the rest of my life will be no more

Than the replay of love and joy that, together, we shored

The Tragedy #poetry

2017-07-10T09:15:00.000-04:00

Disburse darkness
When evil overrides
3 poor, humble people
Their lives shredded
and torn.

No need to cry little one -
The sun will still
shine bright.

I'm sorry for your sadness
Emptiness,
Sorry,
Damage
What else can I say?
Time
Will
Pass
Wounds
Will

Heal

Tragedy doesn't last FOREVER...

~Written by 14 year old me

Independence Day #poetry

2017-07-03T09:33:00.000-04:00

The weight is heavy

The burden unbearable

The results uncertain

Fight to breathe

Fight to live

Fight to even die

How you want

How you need

How you see

See the pain

See the envy

See the future

We will survive

We will thrive

We will be free

Hole in the wall #poetry

2017-06-26T09:15:00.000-04:00

I walk into my rat-packed humble room.
Oh, how I long to be elsewhere.
Wear walls
Grungy floors
Old paintings
Every time I enter my room, I am intriguingly engulfed in it's horrendous boredom.
I am a simple woman
Woes
Afflictions
Distractions
Problems
They never seem to bother me.

I have two chairs here. Hopefully someone can share one with me someday.
I simply look out
my eight panel window
and dream how life could be -
if and only if...

I could get out this hole in the wall

~Written by me at the age of 14

What is love?

2017-06-05T09:00:00.000-04:00

What is love?

Love is an emotion, art, a state of mind, or even just a dream.

Love is powerful.

Love is unconditional. Heart pounding. Earth shattering. Soul moving.

Terrifying.

Love is everything you thought you never needed but can't live without.

It's the moment your chest compresses and heart shutters at the thought of them when they aren't by your side.

It's the smile that crosses your face when you think of them. It's the warmth and delight of a hug you waited for all day.

It's soothing. Comfortable.

It doesn't judge. Ridicule. Oppress.
It lifts. Inspires.

And, it hurts.

It's the head-over-heels, can't live without them (ever), heart pounding, tear shedding, life changing, world spinning, turn your life upside-down and inside-out kind of feeling.

Love is powerful.

Terrifying.

It's soothing. Comfortable.

And, it hurts.

Love is a feeling that can't be put into words.

2014-09-29T11:46:00.005-04:00

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Justine is the author of 4 contemporary romance novels, 2 erotic novellas, and 1 humorous short story about a guy looking for love in all the wrong places.

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