Poetry & Writings
Original writings such as poetry, prose, quotes, essays, and more
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How will I know?
I’ve sought for youhigh and low. Through mountains and roads,late nights and early mornings. I’ve sought for youmy whole life. Even now,after times of rejection, ignorance and struggle;I’ve prayed you’d let me in. I’ve written stories in my head about you,asked the Saints and Gurus of you. I’ve prayed for…
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I hope my family doesn’t read this…
This was originally published on Substack. Follow me on there for posts first. Because everything I seem to write on the internet has a comment from my mom underneath asking me when I’m coming back home. My grandmother used to do the same until her stroke in 2020 and then…
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I’m Not a Man-Shamer…
If anything, I’m anything but that. But when a man tells me I shouldn’t pursue writing because he wanted to be a journalist once and ended up in lumber sales, I purse my lips. Maybe, at first, that meant something to me. Maybe, just maybe, I questioned myself a bit. It…
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A Birthday List From a Girl Who Has Every Thing
What do I ask for when my room piles up with things left unwrapped from last year? Things unneeded–but once upon a time wanted–crowd my closet, my drawers, my shelves. Things and more things. My love asked for a list as if there were empty spaces in our room to…
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The loneliness of the season
As the temperature dropsand things seem to get a bit more quiet,I can hear songs echoin the back of my head. I think of my family at this time…and the home I left behind… The weather gets colder yet I miss the snowy windows I’d always find myself waking up…