Category: poetry
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End and Start
A few words for the humans I had the pleasure to work with for the past year and half: How do I feel? Peaceful and calm Sunny and free Grateful to be here today And elsewhere tomorrow What comes next, you ask? Life and its many surprises, I say ‘When you press the pause button… Read more
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Approval
Composing the symphony of our lives To compose the symphony of yourself Must you know how to play instruments? It would certainly help But until then Use the sound of the waves in the ocean The chirping of the birds in the wind And the silence of when there is nothing to say Letter from… Read more
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9
The date of our births Nine When enough is a neuf But together is softer Seconds in the morning when you see that I am here Days or less spent apart since moving to our new home Months of not carrying a human life but many more ways of bringing life into this world Life… Read more
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The starting point
Getting there I know this is just a figure of speech But so much of the language we speak shapes the way we think, and vice versa That it makes me wonder Where are we trying to get to? To a place where we feel comfortable with the now? One day we open our eyes… Read more
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On worthiness
Perfect! Not what you project of what it means But how I feel Not what society forces us to believe But how I am How you are Just the way you are No expectation about what to be or to become No strings attached to your behavior or worthiness Perfect Just the way you are… Read more
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Creative eco-anxiety
New Born She is carrying life She gave birth to a new child But not the kind you’re expecting Fear is holding her Fear has taken hold of her Embodied eco-anxiety What will be born out of her? Hopefully more beauty Beyond bearing children as women’s only creativity Given birth to her baby She could… Read more
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Puzzling
Space Personal space is such a subjective matter How much space we feel we need to have Around us moving through a crowd How much sonic space is socially acceptable How loud can one speak in an enclosed or public space until it becomes rude How hard is it to not judge others and their… Read more
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Trees
Here’s a twist! Curly spine Are you misaligned You feel stuck So is your lower back Since you won’t listen in Your body will scream in pain What is the message you refuse to hear What language will speak to you For its call not be in vain One second soothing The other burning The… Read more
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The way we look
Look at you! As unique and personal As our human experiences Gateways through our souls His blue and bright Clear as water crystals Beauty appears at a simple glance Hers brown and muddy Textured as dark cocoa Complexity and bittersweetness entangle Each out of them ordinary Exploded sparks extraordinary Blue making brown better Brown making… Read more
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When it starts when it ends
Infinity It’s like it’s not the same part of me that’s feeling that’s writing I don’t know if that makes grammatical sense but in my language it makes sense The question is whether ‘I’ might be able to read myself Will you ever be able to read yourself? It’s the moment when all is and… Read more