This picture was taken by me  along the shores of santa monica, february 2001
(no title)    by tamara peterson 

Some things are too precious to throw
     away,
And yet we walk around blind-folded,
     pick up our most
Importance,
     and throw it downstream,
Thinking it was just a small skipping stone.



(no title)   by tamara peterson

killing time
     nowhere to go
igNoring the imPortance
     and cREAting pet
          peeves...

same rythmatic day
     of waKing up and
living AGAIN
     I want it to be different
let me make a disAster
     out of absolutely nothing.

cRy foR help
scrEam for changE
pleaD for orDer
     So I can meSS it up
AGAIN.



To Care   by tamara peterson    february 18, 1997

My heart has become the burdened washboard
     Whose rigid side rubs up against
Other people's problems;
     But in the end, the mourning cleanses
Both of us.
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