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  • Had my spirit not been broken

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    Photo by Ashutosh Sonwani via Pexels This poem is quite fresh. This was no small penny that dropped after a lot of self reflecting and trying to make sense of my own story. (Told ya things would get personal). You’ll notice that there was a pattern in these last pieces, as the subject was in…

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  • The first time I wrote about Anger

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    Photo by cottonbro studio via Pexels If I am being honest, I struggled a little with publishing this one. The very title lets you know why I would feel a bit insecure: it is the first poem about anger I have ever written. Spoiler alert: Things have started to become personal! Anger is the emotion…

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  • Once

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    Photo by Keenan Constance via Pexels I guess you can say this is my take of the poem “The Uses of Sorrow” by Mary Oliver. I read it years ago, but it really resonated with me, and you can see why. I think at first it makes you angry and you disagree with it, until…

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  • About Growing Up

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    Image by Matheus Bertelli via Pexels This piece is fresh as they come. These thoughts stayed with me for a while, and were the inspiration for this poem after someone close to me went through something life changing.  Because he grew up with me, I started to think about how he would deal with this…

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  • The Train

    The Train

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    Image by Schäferle via Pixabax Does discussing meaning ruin the art of poetry? I used to think so. I even have a poem about it! My sister loved to ask what my poems were about and I never understood that, so I rhymed some words about it and made her name the title of a…

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