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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

— Rumi

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Without reading any of my written words Is it possible to truly know me? Mind musings, soul serenades This feels like the only accurate, undiluted Version of my being

If you've never met my body Maybe you know me better than most Or maybe to know me is reading both Poetry being the translation of my body language Into my mother tongue

So I'll lay my words down delicately, intentionally Hoping you see them A dialect spoken just between us Yes, you would know me I think you could know me entirely this way

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Broke off a piece of who you were, tucked it into my pocket to remind me. I run my fingers over it often. It’s soft and jagged, feathery, like your hair filled with my invasive fingers. It’s warm, like the purest parts of you and the air you breathe. If you remember anything about me please let it be the way I sighed your name into your mouth. Remember that I loved you.

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& when the night is entirely quiet, you feel like god never gave up on me & when the sun fully opens its eyes, you feel like the barefoot summer days in my back pocket; I break in your breaking & I hurt in your pain - I want to become your favorite feeling, so I’ve become

silence

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I'm Unable To say what I mean because The words are all Lodged in my throat But whoa! So suddenly They're spilling out wildly In a long, incoherent ramble

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“Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.”

— Unknown

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“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”

— Paulo Coelho

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"Love speaks louder in silence than in endless promises."

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Candles

i love watching candles burn.

How the wax melts and falls over itself,

building something like a pillar around it.

as it burns and burns

and

as the wax continues and continues to fall over itself

a little base forms,

the more it burns

the more the pillar and base are tough and solid;

and when the flame reaches a pillar

that once helped the candle stand,

it now takes it all away

for it is not needed anymore

as it burns and burns

the wax all away .

I think candles are like people.

For ,as life burns them

their broken parts become pillars

to support them,

and,

as life continues and continues

a little base forms,

the more it burns

the more the pillars and base are tough and solid.

As life reaches down to the old pillars,

it burns and burns

them all away too,

for they are not needed anymore.

As the now little candle reaches down

to its own old,thick and tough base

it smiles,

for it has done its duty:

helped illuminating high and low,

with its own light.

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“Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and only become bigger and bigger. But when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you’re perfect and walk into freedom.”

— Rick Warren

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there’s a writer in there /

breathe make something beautiful, real.

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“I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I’m losing everyone while I’m trying to find myself.”

— Unknown

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Coelacanth

One of my favorite cryptids is the coelacanth. It was a prehistoric fish thought to be extinct and then someone caught one! It was a momentous day for all the cryptid believers, if it can exist, what else can? I wrote a poem about it, here it is:

Stranger things have happened

Than a fish being found in the ocean

But this is a special fish

Coelacanth

I say it slowly, savoring the name on my tongue

See-la-can-th

That’s how you pronounce it

And you’d do well to remember its name

The coelacanth is a cryptid 

An animal thought to exist with no proof of it until 1938

Such a momentous year for all the believers in things that might exist, without any proof

We found proof

Coelacanth

Thought to be extinct from the time of the dinosaurs, 

A living fossil, still swimming

If it can exist, swimming in the depths

What else could be lurking?

A monster in the Lock Ness?

A beast in the Tibetan mountains?

A creature preying on goats in Central America?

Coelacanth

I say the name slowly

It fills me with hope

If it can exist, then maybe the others do too

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“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”

— J.M. Power

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“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.”

— Ralph Nichols