Who's Pretty?

I once asked my nephew who he thought was really pretty, believing he would say someone like Taylor Swift or Selena Gomez, but instead he said, "You, auntie".

I was so touch and so flattered.

And then he said, "Auntie, can I have five dollars?"

Olivia McGuire

Love from an Aunt

You don't need to be a mother to love like one.

Olivia McGuire

Poets, Writers, and Lost Love

It is no wonder poets and writers

have written so much on lost love

They have all this love

inside of them

with nowhere to put it

but on paper

Olivia McGuire

Painfully Beautiful

I'm a lover who hasn't found her love

a writer who can't always write

a mountain hiker who can only 

climb in memories

I am full of life but chronic illness

has kept me from fully living it

I am like a sunny day 

when it is raining at the same time

I am twistedly and painfully beautiful
 

Olivia McGuire

Believe In Yourself

The difference between me

 and famous writers and poets

is I have yet to be discovered

Believe In Your Art

Believe In Yourself

Olivia McGuire