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From the mind of Joel Barraquiel Tan.
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joelbtan · 16 days ago
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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11/2/20 Coco the Kitten
What could be better?
Waking to kitty kisses
Ginger purr machine
To accelerate healing
Mammalian connection
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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10/29/20
I get nervous when
Too many days no writing
Creativity
Life blood & highest purpose
Connects me to the Old Gods
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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Daily Writes
Asked to find the right words
Allow your fingers to write
What needs to be said
Writing isn’t a contest
Writing is the prize itself.
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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10/02/20
Friday’s Upside down
Inversions start the day
Rich blood bath for thoughts
Realigns chi to center
Going from mind to body
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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10/1/20 Poet on Toilet
Writing on the shitter
Luxe bidet experience
When I stop thinking
My seat becomes a Queens throne
Bidet remote, my scepter
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/29/20
Everyday poems
Storytelling is God’s gift
Joy Verses Despair
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/28/20 You Choose Tanka
Best we believe that
Life’s unfolding as it should
Why question God’s work?
Heaven lies in unthinking
Hell lies in past & future.
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/26/20 Queerdos
Sweetest strange husband
pro wrestling & marble race
Enthusiast. Rocks
YouTube Chinese harp playlist
What a wonderfully weird life.
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/24/20 Don’t Skip
Skipped 2 days of poems
Now my left ear is hurting
Artmaking is health
Creative wellness is key
Especially in these times
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/21/20 For Raven
Liquid animals
Like octopi & the like
Fit well through tight spots
Profound intelligence from
Repeated trial & error
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/19/20 Too Much At Once
Woke up tired as hell
From moving house at Fifty-
2 be or not to
Be that is the quest. Judge Ruth
Bader Ginsburg we love you.
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/17/20 Shaka Khan
The God Voice in me
Knows exactly the right thing
For the right moment
anxiety is thinking
Listen for our higher love.
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/16/20 Senses 2020
My name is Joël
I live in a big pink house
With my husbunny
& Tootie Pooters our cat
Who’re you & wea you stay?
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/15/20 day before holiday
Much needed vacay
Refuel, relax & reset
A perfectly timed
Break from the complexities
& stress of apocalypse
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/14/20 Hale Elebunny
New house first night sleep
So challenging to relax
So many what ifs
Each house has its melody
Up all night deep listening.
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joelbtan · 4 years ago
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9/12/20 Fame
Asymptomatic
Does a monster lurk within?
15 minute test
To verify my status
Is this my 15 minutes?
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