Tag: introspective poem
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Anticipation of Arrival| Silent Presence, Invisible Moments, and Mindful Awareness
On the anticipation of arrival—exploring silent presence, unseen moments, and the subtle awareness we feel before something becomes real. It captures the fragile space between knowing and experiencing, where the deepest human emotions quietly unfold. #Mindfulness #ReflectivePoetry #InnerAwareness #EmotionalDepth
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What Writing Gives Me That Nothing Else Does
There are things I cannot say in a room full of breathing bodies. They turn to vapor before they reach my mouth. But when I sit before a blank page, something in me loosens. Writing becomes shoreline, telescope, shelter, and sky — a place where I can contradict myself without apology, where grief expands to…
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The Plate as a Mirror of the Sky
A contemplative free verse poem exploring how my favorite food becomes a mirror of identity, memory, ancestry, and cosmic awareness—an intimate journey from a simple meal to the architecture of the soul. #WriteAPageADay #FoodAndIdentity #PebbleGalaxy #SoulWriting #CosmicConsciousness
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Share Five Things I’m Good At
I’m good at listening. Not the kind that fills silence with words, but the kind that holds space— quiet as the pause between heartbeats, soft as a shadow folding itself beneath the sky.I listen to what is spoken, and more to what blooms in the stillness— the breath unsaid, the tremor beneath phrase, the fragile…
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SHAPED BY STORMS: A meditation on becoming, breaking, surviving, softening, and shining
Beauty was never something I inherited; it was something I bled for, prayed for, fought through darkness for. Life did not hand me gentle beginnings— it carved me, chiseled me, taught me the language of survival before the language of love. And yet, somewhere between the breaking and the rebuilding, a new glow took shape—…
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The Last Four Books I Read
A journey through the last four books I read—each a voice shaping who I am. The Philosopher, the Rebel, the Artist, and the Human: four companions guiding me through silence, courage, creation, and love. Reading is not escape; it’s transformation. In this introspective free verse journey, four books speak as four voices—the Philosopher, the Rebel,…