Lisa Gott

Joined October 2021

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Writer. Reader. Human. Fueled by caffeine and cookies.

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Runner-Up in From Across the Room Challenge

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Runner-Up in From Across the Room Challenge
Love on a ScreenRunner-Up in From Across the Room Challenge
from across the room the brightness of your eyes illuminate the screen reflecting a love waiting to be given your voice dances out from speakers
By Lisa Gott3 months ago in Poets
Being Kind isn’t an Excuse to be Blind
I grew up in the melting pot that is Northern Virginia and the DC Metropolitan area. My schoolmates and friends didn’t always look like me—a white girl from a middle-class family. Their skin was a rainbow of beautiful shades. Their tongues spoke exotic languages which I wished I could also speak. They worshipped Gods unknown to me. Some came from money. Some did not. These differences never made a difference. To me, they were my friends. And I loved them exactly the way they were.
By Lisa Gott3 months ago in Humans
2022: The Year of Relaxation
It's been three weeks since I've written anything other than what was necessary for work and life. No school. No novel ideas. No poems or short stories. And I'm thankful for the space this much-needed time afforded me. It offered the chance to let the me that was tightly coiled from another year of the crazy ups and downs we call life unwind. To relax and return to the shape of existence that somehow slips away from each of us each year.
By Lisa Gott4 months ago in Motivation
Slowly Sipping
I grab my favorite dress from the closet the red one with white flowers and a hole and walk out to the porch the afternoon sun greets me
By Lisa Gott6 months ago in Poets
Refurbished Love
I reach deep down rip a chunk off my heart wrap it up with a bow and gift it to you * you shrug and smile but no note of thanks
By Lisa Gott6 months ago in Poets
What Lies Beneath
stripping off the judgment revealing my naked truth I expose the battered soul unseen since my youth * covered in thick burlap
By Lisa Gott6 months ago in Poets
Heirloomed Confessions
sometimes what you think you know turns out completely wrong and when you learn the honest truth you wished you'd known all along
By Lisa Gott6 months ago in Poets
A Walk of Gratitude
Every fall, when I see the trees so willing to shed their decorative attire, I wonder if there is any part of them that is embarrassed to be so naked. To expose themselves to the world. Do they worry that we will not see their barren branches in the same way that we do when their buds of rich emerald give birth to new leaves in the spring? Do they look down and feel dull now that the last of their ruby and citrine coats have fallen and now drift at their feet? Or are they thankful to have the weight that they have carried this past year drift away, leaving them lighter and ready to rest?
By Lisa Gott6 months ago in Longevity
Thanksgiving, Your Way
This weekend was the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. It is a holiday celebrated at various times throughout the year by other countries as well. The premise surrounding the day is to be grateful, and that is a lovely notion. Unfortunately, I often feel that this stress-filled day where our gratitude is demanded ultimately makes some feel less than thankful.
By Lisa Gott6 months ago in Longevity
Stained Soul
my arms are tired from scrubbing the residue of what could be sticky muck that holds on strong you can't clean life's messy plea
By Lisa Gott6 months ago in Poets
Locked Door
the shadow I'll never outrun your icy breath tickles my back and so I walk faster and faster all these years, you've been there
By Lisa Gott6 months ago in Poets
Life's Perpetual Present
You’ve asked me what inspires But the answer would take me hours! So instead I say look around There’s no shortage to be found
By Lisa Gott6 months ago in Poets