Kate Stratman

  • What Time Didn’t Change

    My heart was split the last we met,and since you saw me, I grew cold.I sought…

  • Reflections

    My mind has been running nonstop recently, the pedal pressed to the floor. There’s no emergency…

  • Ghost

    The hopeless romantic that I amI held onto your rugged handover roots and rocks,our spirits running…

  • A Testament Rooted in Soil

    A tree stands tall,as I try to do. Its roots fasten tightlyto what does not waver,with…

  • A Silent Call

    I wait in the spaces between breaths,speaking your namein a language only my heart remembers. I…

  • Still

    I loved youthe way you love something fragile—with patience,with care,with all I could hold without breaking…

  • What I Refuse to Carry

    Why do you wear the weight, That was never yours to bear? Wounds carved by another’s…

  • When the Cycle Breaks

    They feed on me, So I feed myself,My hands move, Incessantly,To the mouth that feeds. Food…

  • To Roam Freely

    A poem written on a dirt road at sunset in Colorado; it’s about the joy of…

  • Questions to a Mirror

    What have I done? And who am I, really?When I say I am what I am,…