Cathleen Reeves

Member since May 2, 2026

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Teatime With The Moon

Posted Jun 16, 2026 · 16 lines · 3 critiques

Sitting on my balcony, my teacup, in my palms' embrace,

Hoping that its rising steam will cloud up the glasses on my face.

Perhaps, if my vision is obscured, I won't have to see how much I hurt...how much I want things to be different...

That cool breeze I feel, never moves anything, toward a state of coherence.

I cannot seem to share my interior with other human beings,

As only the moon, seems a safe place to express how my heart beats.

When I have tried to reveal my secrets of self to another presence,

I become categorized minimized, classified as a problem

I long to not be run through a filter, unseen,

By people determined to misunderstand me.

I long for conflict to end in some genuine repair,

Not always dissolve, into the evening's stars, weeping, in despair.

So, I keep to myself, not feeling particularly risky, or attuned, and although it is lonely...at times, painful,

I don't think I will change my circumstances soon,

For the moment, I am simply content to have teatime with the moon.

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June 2026
17 Wed

Received a critique
on Teatime With The Moon from @Geezer
"my one complaint is that your punctuation leaves much to be desired. I felt the loneliness of having to keep company with only oneself, for fear that others will judge your incomplete self against who you really are. Ye…"
17 Wed

Received a critique
on Teatime With The Moon from @davidgambro31
"I understand your poem, or rather the feeling behind it. I admire they way you can use imagery without straying away from the core emotion/ themes of the poem (something I struggle with). 1. critique: where you placed y…"
16 Tue

Posted a poem
Teatime With The Moon
"Sitting on my balcony, my teacup, in my palms' embrace, "
Open thread 16 lines
15 Mon

Posted a poem
A Siege Perilous
"A crescent moon presides,"
Open thread 28 lines
15 Mon

Received a critique
on On Hold from @rumpleman
"This the story of life. I don’t like waiting in line for anything. I try to find a book or magazine of interest when I am checking out of anything. I figure if I have to wait I can entertain myself and & they can out th…"
15 Mon

Highest posting month
June 2026 — 6 poems
10 Wed

Received a critique
on School's Out from @Rula
"Hello and thank you for sharing this one. A lot I believe can be said about this contests title. I like your take and the extended well used metahor. However, I have to saythat I read this more like prose, but I think t…"
07 Sun

Received a critique
on Grief from @patrickgadoury
"The opening really worked for me. That moment of waking up and forgetting, just for a second, that the person isn’t safe in bed beside you anymore, that’s the real grief in the poem for me. Only thing I’d look at is the…"
07 Sun

Received a critique
on The Nightingale from @patrickgadoury
"I think prose / free verse was the right call for this. Once I’m in the poem, it’s easy to follow what’s happening, and it has this soft little fable thing going on, which I liked. The woman’s song, the town listening…"
07 Sun

Received a critique
on The Nightingale from @patrickgadoury
"I think prose / free verse was the right call for this. Once I’m in the poem, it’s easy to follow what’s happening, and it has this soft little fable thing going on, which I liked. The woman’s song, the town listening…"
07 Sun

Posted a poem
The Nightingale
"Every night, as the moon rose, a woman's song pierced the dark, Full of joy and pain, joined together, softly, not stark."
Open thread 47 lines
06 Sat

Received a critique
on School's Out from @Geezer
"sounds like a waking nightmare. Myself, I think I'd give it another shot, I've had enough good times that I think I would do it all over again, just to try and get it better this time; maybe a different life to work on…"
06 Sat

Posted a poem
Grief
"Grief "
Open thread 35 lines
05 Fri

Posted a poem
School's Out
"School's Out"
Open thread 31 lines
04 Thu

Posted a poem
Nobody's Hero
" "
Open thread 40 lines
May 2026
31 Sun

Contest commendation
05/26 Unanswered Phone Call

with "The Unanswered Phone Call".
31 Sun

First contest commendation
05/26 Unanswered Phone Call

with the poem "The Unanswered Phone Call".
13 Wed

Posted a poem
The Art Of Letting Go
"The Art Of Letting Go"
Open thread 15 lines
07 Thu

Posted a poem
Carnival Night
"Carnival Night"
Open thread 28 lines
04 Mon

Posted a poem
The Unanswered Phone Call
"The Unanswered Phone Call"
Open thread 34 lines
03 Sun

Posted a poem
On Hold
"On Hold"
Open thread 26 lines
02 Sat

First publication
The Leaf
02 Sat

Posted a poem
The Leaf
"The Leaf"
Open thread 37 lines
02 Sat

Joined Neopoet
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First poem published 1 days later.

About Me

About me

C.M.Reeves...I have been writing poems continuously since early February this year. I have 85 now and still going!
I am 75 and a retired therapist and theater
director. I enjoy staging a story now with words in verse.
There is a signal for poetry for which I am definitely a vessel and open to receiving...nearly daily, though I am new to it.
Nothing is published. I'm just looking for a place for it to potentially land other than Facebook, where I have been posting them in a profile I call Moments of Time in Rhyme.
I have come to love this art form, and I hope to spend what's left of my life pursuing it.

Location: Sacramento CA USA, USA

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Contest Wins

Winning Submission	Contest	Contest Date
The Unanswered Phone Call	05/26 Unanswered Phone Call	1 May, 2026 – 31 May, 2026

on Teatime With The Moon from @Geezer

on Teatime With The Moon from @davidgambro31

on On Hold from @rumpleman

June 2026 — 6 poems

on School's Out from @Rula

on Grief from @patrickgadoury

on The Nightingale from @patrickgadoury

on The Nightingale from @patrickgadoury

on School's Out from @Geezer

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