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Let Me Be More Than a Name
When you label me, you stop listening. You paste a summary over a novel still being written. Let me be inconvenient and worthy, confusing and holy— more than your comfort zone, more than a name.
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The Price of Waking
Awareness cuts like a blade. It severs comfort, exposes the cage, but grants you the one thing illusion never could— yourself.
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The Song, The Gossip, The Love
A song is never just a song once it finds a wound to echo in. She hummed it through heartbreak, through gossip that carved her into a rumor, through the fire of a love that took more than it gave. This is a poem about remembering, unraveling, and rising again— through melody, myth, and the…
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Books That Changed Me: A Journey Through Meaning, Magic, and Quiet Strength
Some books enter your life as silent companions. Others, like these three, become maps that guide, provoke, and anchor you. Here’s how Man’s Search for Meaning, The Alchemist, and Quiet changed the way I think, feel, and live.
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Edgar Mittelholzer: A Trailblazer’s Triumph and Tragedy
Edgar Mittelholzer, Guyana’s first internationally published novelist, dared to write what others wouldn’t—race, madness, colonial trauma, and the dark corners of the soul. His life ended in flames, but his legacy deserves to burn bright in the minds of readers who seek truth in literature. This is the story of a literary pioneer, both triumphant…
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Precious Stones from You
Your letters are not just ink on paper; they are treasures— gems mined from the depths of your soul, delivered to me with the weight of love, to be cherished like rare stones dug from the golden earth of Burkina Faso.
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Lost (But Not Really): The Beautiful Art of Getting Lost
It took a few seconds to realize I was utterly and completely lost. Not the kind of lost where your GPS glitches, but the kind where reality softens at the edges, and even time hesitates to move. A poem that begins with a lemon and ends with a map inside it—this is a journey through…
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You and Me — A Conversation Between Compassion and Discernment
A lyrical meditation on the delicate balance between compassion and discernment — how the heart and mind walk side by side, not in conflict, but in quiet harmony.
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Where Thoughts Go When You Don’t Feed Them
Not every thought is worth your trust. Many are just echoes of the past—old fears in new clothes. This poetic meditation explores the mind’s craving for tension, its habit of jumping to conclusions, and the quiet liberation that begins when you stop feeding your thoughts and start listening to truth instead.
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Steep and Exposed
When love is a ridgeline and every step a choice, some climb to escape—others descend to return. A poetic journey through risk, memory, and the courage it takes to let go.
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