Gestation
“Gestation” by Clare L. Martin (watercolor, color pencil, crayon, charcoal on paper, digitized, filtered).Filed under: Art, Artists, Body, Creativity, Health, Life, Louisiana, Love, Nature, Poets,...
View ArticleRetreat Writings, 2012, Part 6 (End Words)
End Words I walk barefoot in the morning grass to load the suitcase and my guitar in the car. It feels so pleasurable–a feeling I have not experienced in years. In the field across the street, there is...
View ArticleNew Writings…
What will survive—the poem or I? I am lost in my own distraction. I am afraid to read the words I write. I am afraid of their truth. This day is hot. The heat radiates from within and without. I...
View Article2012: A Year in the Writing Life
There was a time when I could not write. There was a time when I was very sick and did not have a grip on life. So now that I am stronger and healthier, I feel I absolutely must do it. I must do it for...
View ArticleThe Path to Peace
I have come to a great point in my life and this blog post is an expression of something wonderful and empowering that has transpired in my life. Recently I had an altercation with someone that I...
View ArticleSacred Tears
So many struggles in recent months that I will not reiterate here, but the resulting choice made at my wit’s end was to go on a retreat at Casita Azul, in Grand Coteau a couple of Saturdays ago. My...
View ArticleGetting Clean
I took an hour from my day for quiet outdoors. I gazed into the slow current of the Vermilion Bayou from the vantage point of a deck overlooking the bayou at a local park. Thin limbs floated in line...
View ArticleI am forging a new life.
I am not who I used to be. I am forging a new life. Blessings, ~Clare
View ArticleEnchantment of the Crone
In December of 2017, I went on a women’s retreat organized by The Penchant Group, a creative collective founded by Bessie Senette. On the retreat, each woman was free to choose their focus, whether on...
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