"Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the gold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." - Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

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The Golden Thread: Creating a Life of Purpose

This life can seem so random / as if you came spurting out of your mother's body / into a swirling pool where you floated around . . .

Celeste Boudreaux

Mar 193 min read

Healing from Shitty Shame

... Shame is contagious / It is passed down, parent to child / in cutting words and / explosions of rage ...

Celeste Boudreaux

Feb 102 min read

Imperfectionist New Years Resolutions

In this new year, I promise that I will let myself get carried away by my passion projects, to lose all sense of time or . . .

Celeste Boudreaux

Dec 29, 20241 min read

When Knocked Off Your Feet

When life’s four-by-four fence post / blindsides you from behind / and you find yourself cycling through / all the stages of grief . . .

Celeste Boudreaux

Nov 13, 20241 min read

How to Start Your Butterfly Life

First, you have to get sick of being a caterpillar. Weary of never-ending consumption, outgrowing your clothes, eyes trained on . . .

Celeste Boudreaux

Aug 21, 20241 min read

Tenderness

When you were a girl, you loved a kitten with such fierceness that you ground your teeth telling her how cute she was. It took . . .

Celeste Boudreaux

Jun 2, 20242 min read

The Mother Tree

I came to the forest pondering the source of insight and generosity how to be loving and life-giving in a season of culminations and...

Celeste Boudreaux

May 4, 20241 min read

Multiplicity

I used to think I was alone here within myself alone in my struggle to be who I thought I ought to be

Celeste Boudreaux

May 6, 20231 min read

The Egg

I am one who waits within the midnight of this shell I feel my own fragility all the possibilities for disaster cracked exterior and...

Celeste Boudreaux

Oct 23, 20211 min read

The Stray Kitten

When I was a girl I found a stray kitten Feral and frightened it ran and hid and would not come to my kitty-kitty calls But my love was...

Celeste Boudreaux

May 29, 20211 min read

Beginnings, Part 2

I wrote that " For Celeste " poem in 2012 when I was in the middle of a health crisis that had set me on a path of desperately seeking a...

Celeste Boudreaux

Jan 2, 20203 min read

Beginnings, Part 1

For Celeste I see you, though you try to hide Blending into the wall Daughter of a defective mother (Whose empty eyes betray her lipstick...

Celeste Boudreaux

Jan 1, 20201 min read