Tag: reflection
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Where the River Remembers – a tanka-prose
The river carries silences and unspoken goodbyes, bending unchanged while memories soften like moss on stone. In its patient flow, connection transforms into wind, water, and the quiet space between breaths. #TankaProse #RiverMemories #NatureHeals #PoetryHealing #TimelessLove
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What the Day Leaves Behind: tanka-prose
As daylight bends toward evening, even shadows hesitate—caught between departure and stillness. In the gentler pause of late afternoon, we learn that presence leaves softer traces than pursuit. #TankaProse #MindfulMoments #EveningLight #PoetryCommunity #Reflections
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Between Breaths, Where the Door Stays Ajar: The Sacred Pause Between What Was and What Waits
Between endings and beginnings lies a quiet sanctuary — a breath where time loosens its grip and the soul listens without urgency. In that sacred pause, we are neither who we were nor who we will become, but something tender, listening, and alive. This is where roots deepen unseen, where grief and hope sit side…
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The Folly of the Endless Mirror
We bend ourselves into reflections, hoping to be loved by every gaze. But the soul was never meant to shine in all directions. It was meant to root, to burn true, and to become whole by refusing the endless mirror. A contemplative poetic journey through selfhood, identity, and the quiet courage of choosing authenticity over…
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The Year I Began Again: What Positive Events Have Taken Place in My Life Over the Past Year?
I didn’t find miracles this year— only pauses that felt like prayers, light resting softly on walls, and moments so ordinary they turned into grace. #FreeVersePoetry #HealingThroughWords #YearInReflection #PersonalGrowth #MindfulLiving #GratitudeJourney #PoeticReflection #SelfDiscovery #InnerPeace #TransformationPoetry
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When People Give Advice, Always Look at Whether It Has Worked for Them
Advice is easy to give, but rarely easy to live. In this long free verse reflection, the poet explores the quiet irony behind human wisdom — how people speak from wounds, from hope, or from habits they haven’t yet broken. It’s a poem about discernment — about listening not to the words, but to the…
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The Most Unexpected Teacher #BlogchatterHalfMarathon @Blogchatter
A lyrical meditation on how life’s quietest moments, deepest heartbreaks, and silences become our truest teachers. This free verse poem explores the unseen classrooms of existence where grief, time, and solitude reveal lessons no mentor ever could. #FreeVerse #LifePoetry #PersonalGrowth #UnexpectedTeacher #Reflection #Mindfulness #EmotionalWisdom #PoeticJourney #SelfDiscovery #LifeLessons
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The Hardest Goodbye: Lessons from Losing What Stayed Within #BlogchatterHalfMarathon @Blogchatter
A quiet meditation on parting, this free verse poem explores how the hardest goodbye isn’t always to a person—but to the version of ourselves that existed beside them. As grief softens into understanding, the poem unfolds as a journey from silence to self-acceptance, revealing how love, even in farewell, continues to teach us how to…
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Failure’s Hidden Door: A Dialogue Across Time #BlogchatterHalfMarathon @Blogchatter
I stand here in the afterglow, the soft light spilling over rubble I once called ruin, an echo of a time when failure carved its name into my days— a time when the ground beneath me gave way and left me breathless, raw, unsure. This poem explores the transformative power of failure as a hidden…
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In the Shadow of Stillness: Highlights from My Autobiography I Would Like to Mention #BlogchatterHalfMarathon @Blogchatter
Even scars become lanterns when you choose their quiet light, and acceptance is no thunderous arrival— but the soft dust settling after a storm.Sometimes survival is small: a meal alone without apology, an evening listening to rain spindle against glass— where darkness is not punishment, but presence, an invitation to know the self beneath all…
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