Tag: resilience
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Those Years Must Have Been Really Challenging
The earth seems to be spinning faster these days— you can feel it too, can’t you? Hours slip through our fingers like dry sand we were once foolish enough to try catching in the wind.We are running for time now, not with it. The pact we made in our youth— to balance ambition against peace—…
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Instructions on Not Giving Up
In this intimate bop poem, I wrestle with the quiet weariness of everyday survival—when hope feels faint, and strength seems forgotten. Yet with each refrain, the heart keeps beating, reminding me that persistence is its own kind of grace. “Instructions on Not Giving Up” is a lyrical prayer for beginning again, tenderly teaching us that…
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Staying True: The Hardest Goal and the Persistence That Endures
What does it mean to set the hardest goal for oneself? For many, it’s more than a measurable achievement or a crowdsourced milestone—it’s the pursuit of authenticity, the brave work of remaining true amid life’s shifting demands. This poem explores the invisible struggle and quiet endurance that colors a journey of personal transformation. Through self-forgiveness,…
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What Would I Do If I Lost All My Possessions?: When Nothing Is Mine
What remains when all possessions vanish — tracing the quiet beauty, fear, and freedom that emerge from complete loss. Let’s unravel the meaning of ownership, identity, and inner awakening in the void of material things. #Poetry #Minimalism #Mindfulness #SelfDiscovery #SpiritualAwakening #LettingGo #PoeticReflection #InnerPeace #LifeLessons
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Out of Place: A Journey Through Silence and Belonging
I have stood at crowded tables and felt like silence itself, wandered through cities where every sign was a puzzle, and smiled half a beat too late in rooms of familiar laughter. This poem is a journey through those moments of not-belonging—where being out of place became the first step toward finding home within myself.
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Proud Inheritance: A Tapestry of Cultural Heritage
In this long poem, I reflect on the aspects of my cultural heritage that live within me—language, food, rituals, stories, resilience, craft, and family. Each memory is not just history but a living thread, reminding me of continuity, belonging, and pride in traditions that shape my present and extend into future generations.
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Through the Wreckage — A Journey from Numbness to Awakening #poetry
This is the story of breaking and becoming. From the first fracture in a seemingly unshakable life, through nights of grief and self-confrontation, to the trembling first steps into the unknown—this four-part narrative takes you on an intimate journey of loss, awakening, and courageous rebirth. Written in shifting perspectives.
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The Quiet Triumph of Staying #QuietMoments
He no longer chases completeness, but learns to honor the spaces where sorrow and grace coexist. In each breath, in each silent ritual, he rediscovers the tenderness that never truly left him. There’s no grand declaration, only the quiet vow to remain open—to pain, to beauty, to life itself.
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The Long and Winding Road #poetry
There is a road they call long and winding—it stretches where the horizon aches, dusted with the silence of old footsteps, echoing hearts that have carried their longing from sun-baked valleys to starlit ridges. This multi-part love poem weaves together themes of enduring devotion, desert landscapes, and the quiet courage of staying together through life’s…
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Inheritance
Though winds dispersed what once was meant to be, They carried seeds you never meant to sow… A gentle meditation on love’s enduring spirit, Inheritance explores how what feels like an ending can become a beginning elsewhere.
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