A crush is all hello….

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Love Letters + Permission, Sex + Desire

{Today I went looking for a finished post that would work for Valentine’s day.  I thought I’d find a love poem, or a post written to women on the hard side of heartbreak.  Instead I found this.  Written ages and ages ago, and just waiting for a day like...

Teach Me How To Be Loved

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Love Letters + Permission, Sex + Desire

It’s scary. This love thing. The sweet vulnerability of extension. The naked of ‘here I am’. The tentative reaching of outstretched arms. The wide open of hope. We all get a little lost here. Wish we knew how to do it better. Wish it were cleaner and more gentle and a...

the sweet and inarguable wisdom of want.

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Sex + Desire

I want to travel to cities around the world to wander alone. I want to raise my face to the warm sun, a flowered sundress swirling around my thighs, bare feet on hard earth.  I want the floppy hat on my head to blow off in a sudden gust of wind  just so I can chase it...

You’ve Got To Claim Your Right To Rapture

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Sex + Desire, Sovereignty + Freedom

This is your time. Yes it is. Right now. This day. This moment. This now. All yours. You don’t have to wait. It doesn’t have to be perfect. You don’t always have to finish what you started in order to begin something new. And there is no more room for playing small....

dusts floats on rays of light

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Gratitude + Attention, Sex + Desire

Dust floats on rays of light dancing just above my head. Sheets are rumpled from sleep; covers long ago lost to the floor.  Long morning shadows slice across her back and my face; alternating diagonals of light and dark with no regard for boundaries. Shadows do not...

to be moved…

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse, Sex + Desire

{I want to be moved} I want to be moved damn it. so move me move me make me feel push me past my resistance info that wide open space give me something beyond the ordinary beyond what you give to the rest of the world show me your naked soul and I will gasp at your...