Author: EM Morgan

  • Meet me Halfway – A Love Like Sunshine

    I’m revisiting a few poems I wrote in a series called A Love Like Sunshine. Someday they’ll end up in a book with a bunch of poetry and short fiction that I’ve never shared. Meet me HalfwayI’ve risked it all before,Only to be crushed completely.I found you when I least…

  • Things I Would Like to do With You – A Love Letter #2

    Things I would like to do with you – A love letter I would like to camp in the woods with you, as far from civilization as possible. I would like to apologize in advance for not being able to keep my hands off of you. I would like to…

  • Self-Compassion is a Key to Healing After Trauma

    Self-Compassion is a Key to Healing After Trauma

    There’s a social media account called “We the Urban.” Their posts are often quite motivating and encouraging. But it’s not in that toxic positivity kind of way, social media can be at times. Sometimes their posts are thought provoking and challenging and make you a little uncomfortable. It’s the uncomfortable…

  • Things I Would Like to do With You – A Love Letter

    Things I would like to do with you – a love letter . . . I would like to wake up next to you and start my day in your arms. I would like to savor the last few moments before the day begins, clinging to you. I would like…

  • Regret, Love, & Other Things

    Can I miss someoneI see all the time?If so, I miss you.You’re all I see, butI’m feeling you – watching youSlip away. Can I regret losingOne who was never mine?Can I regret letting thePain and fear take over? Can I regret Hurting you? Can I tell you, you’reThe best thing…

  • The Gift of Going First: On PTSD, Grief, & Healing

    The Gift of Going First: On PTSD, Grief, & Healing

    The gift of going first – On PTSD, Grief, & Healing I’ve experienced some physical violence in my life – or the threat thereof. One of these periods in my life was not too long ago. But what happened after that, was one long continuous case of more fight, flight,…

  • Darling Whenever I Think of You

    Darling, Whenever I think of you,I start writinginvisible love lettersto your heart.– Alexandra Vasiliu

  • Come Away With Me, My Love

    Come away with me, My love. Come away with me nowI don’t want you to whisperTo me with your eyes anymore.I want you to speak the words andLead me away from here.  – E.M. Morgan

  • A Love Letter to North Carolina

    A Love Letter to North Carolina

    A Love Letter to North Carolina . . . North Carolina is home now. While I fiercely love the state where I was born and lived until my early 20s (and again briefly in my 30s), North Carolina is home base. I don’t live in NC – but it’s home.…

  • Yours – A Poem

    Yours – A Poem

    Every inch of herHeart, body, and soul is yours.She is yours, waiting.– E.M. Morgan