It feels good to be out of the depressed slump I found myself stuck in for the past month. I had a friend who was very kind and voiced her concern for my mental health. The feeling that someone cared helped pull me out. It was like a hand reaching into the water and pulling…
Author: Eric Fournier
A creative, independent-minded poet, author, and artist who enjoys turning ideas into finished projects. Also practices American Sign Language.
Love Is Cryptic
Cryptic is the language of love Hostile and unbridled it rides in the lower chaotic emotions Unfiltered and packs a punch Whispering its romantic melody to all our beloved
CBT: ACKNOWLEDGING THE GOOD I DO.
Today I sit back and try something new. I think back to my accomplishments and compliment myself on a job well done. Its difficult for me, but its good to acknowledge the good I’ve done in this world. My brain loves to whisper my failures, and they eat away at my soul. By complimenting myself,…
A Person of the Book: Learning A Part of the Islamic Obligatory Daily Prayer.
(For further reading please visit this site for the full prayers: https://saioi.net/blog/translation-of-islamic-prayer-what-people-recite-salah-namaz/ ) Ramadan occurred during my deployment to Djibouti, Africa and I was always curious what the meaning of the singing prayer that echoed from the Mosques meant. Here is part of it, according to my new understanding of an English version of the…
FIRST MONTH CELEBRATION
Your awesome, your great, your fantastic. It is the end of the first month after 2020 and I just want to take this moment to celebrate. It was a hard month and we made it through.
NEEDLE
(Inspired by everyone I know who fights addiction everyday. I know you can make it. With all my love, please be encouraged. Each day is a battle.) Echos fill the valley of shattered bones. Platters fall from aged hands and Death stands still Among the sloth and squaler, Feeling your burning, Rising up against yourself,…
Cupid Guide My Love
Sweet words I never heard more that from you,Give me hope, lead me along giving me clues, How to open that tender lock on your solid heart, So I may make it soft again with the sounds from Cupids harp.
DANCE FOR ME MY DARLIN’
Toad stepped on the toadstool, And bellowed out into the wide open blue, “Oh, what do you do, sweet darlin’” “Take me home and twirl” “Sweet lady dance to that old blue tune,” “Save a dance and twirl for me too” “In step, out step,” “We step in pace” “Lean in for the goodnight kiss”…
CHILDREN IN PUDDLES
Little tiny pattering drops, Splish splashed by little crocks, Dashing and pittering away, On a bright rainy day.
PRACTICING CBT
Perception is a key used to unlock many thoughts. Especially, it unlocks how one perceives their own actions; future, past, present, and encourages a range of emotions. Those thoughts and emotions manifest themselves in numerous ways, rarely neutral, most of the time positive or negative. “I’m such a dork,” after bungling to flirt; or, “I…
