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My third poetry and prose collection is currently in the works and includes fan favorites such as:
Not Bionic
These Laurels Were Never Meant To Rest
The Spider Princess
Material Girl
Seascape
Like Fine China
Poetry: Sight and Sound
Fishnets
Pamper Yourself
Celestial Being
…and over 150 more pieces!
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Ghostly by Valerie Parente
She was dead 10 months ago,
free to roam on her own,
she could go anywhere… anywhere at all,
except the place that she belonged.
It was a kind of art, being haunted,
and to be the one doing the haunting,
she mastered it ever so well,
translating and transferring her hell.
Nearly a year passed, and the day came,
where she was resurrected from her pain,
it didn’t happen because people believed,
it happened because she finished her grief.
She is still ghostly under the moon,
and that should be a warning to you,
you can never scare her with death threats,
because she already knows what it’s like to be dead.
– Valerie Parente (4-12-2021)
On The Surface by Valerie Parente
I would very much
not like to be the person
that only cares
for what’s on the surface.
But this terrain is bumpy
and full of craters
while the whole world
remains my neighbor.
And I’m prone to circles
that go round and round
while I watch a layer
far above the ground.
I don’t want skin deep
I want profound
maybe it’s time to dig up
what’s been underground.
These words in me
they’ve been alive
so I ramble nonsense
to the naked eye.
I don’t know what I mean
until the retrospect
and I trust my subconscious
in all its depths.
There’s so much meaning and purpose and value and pride
and that’s not what you get on the surface of a mind.
– Valerie Parente (3-30-2021)
Moonchild Manifesto by Valerie Parente
You are a Moonchild.
You embody moods like phases in orbital rotations.
Every moving body comes in cycles
around a world you set your mind to.
That’s when the words begin to flow
like the tides under your gravitational pull.
You fall and you feel and you break,
wondering how others could be so unfazed.
Because you are in love night and day
while the rest are just lost in space.
– Valerie Parente (2-23-2021)
Moonlight by Valerie Parente
I used to be haunted,
at the mercy of the night,
but now the night lives in me,
so I manipulate the moonlight.
I used to see ghosts,
trapped in space and time,
but now I see this reality,
without the irrational fright.
I know I obsess in phases,
and that gave me the insight,
that fixations are not fixed,
they’re just a state of mind.
Like water that flows,
as the moon controls the tide,
moods always come and go,
that’s just a part of life.
I am more than my mental state,
I am a body with moonlight inside,
call it energy, call it a soul,
call it proof of a spiritual kind.
– Valerie Parente (2-28-2021)
Full Moon Baby by Valerie Parente
The gravity of her decisions is a balancing act
On a full moon she learned how to manipulate the mad
and when she sees her mistakes she thinks “oh that’s a shame”
but the weight of her fate is never in vain.
– Valerie Parente (6-24-2019)
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