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“A Fire Inside is a collection of poems which spans over a decade and entails pivotal moments captured in Ciliento’s life from the age of seventeen to twenty-seven. Her first book allows the reader a raw, intimate look into her experiences with love, heartbreak, tragedy, healing, growth and coming to terms with who she truly… Continue reading A Fire Inside: (Collection of Poems 1996 – 2006)

she looks like summer, but feels like winter all the things contagious lay within her crimes disguised as passion, hunger howls at the moon she sings pain so beautifully, though out of tune and i too lazy with hopes of singing along but paralyzed with fear that she may get bored waves of wonder allow… Continue reading “summer/winter”

severing ties as the oblivion rises where did the night end and morning begin? returning to a fog it is better off that way she comes to go to come back again oh no, not again and i cry only when i know i won’t remember i am the worm in the bottle that has… Continue reading “oblivion.”

i was wondering when it was gonna end everything fell around like leaves in autumn spinnin’ ‘round up and down a pause to breathe inhale and release pressures all too strong learn to move along fall into the sweetest song with the saddest chords yeah, can’t we all sing along? try to wish it all… Continue reading “sing along”

(dedicated to tara rivieccio albidrez) countless miles in between… but you were always there for me… inspirational, a note of sarcasm in the key of friendship… priceless times, memories should be recorded… never erased from my mind… i stood in the presence of frozen time… we picked right up again without missing a beat… back… Continue reading “in the key of friendship”

here’s a joke directed toward you… hoping you’ll get the punch line… in hopes you’ll get the sarcasm and dry humor… move to the back of the line that stretches around the block… i’ve been there before… it doesn’t affect me the way in which it did years before… for the pastimes when i was… Continue reading “bleed out”

My first book is now available on Amazon, kindle and paperback editions!

each entrance  has an exit which leads to a new path i stand between the past and the future absorbing all i’ve found each lesson i’ve learned from every bridge i’ve built and every bridge  i’ve burned i’ve walked thru the storm i’m reborn taken on a new form right now i’m at a  standstill… Continue reading “good friday (alone time)”

leavin’ thoughts alone yeah, easier said than done i stumbled onto riches just to lose my soul with crooked teeth my smile can’t shine i’ve lost the will to embrace what’s rightfully mine ©2010 josephine b. ciliento

who helps you make your fortune? the same crowd burning crosses? hey great puppet who’s pulling your strings? just remember lonely birds eventually sing here’s to your possessions that leave the lower poor here’s to the pissed kicking down your door here’s to a new move toward freedom here’s to the positive energy negativity brings… Continue reading “a new move toward freedom”