i’m posting a picture/visual poem in the coming week.

yep! thanks for being diligent & making sure i see it, i have a permissions letter ready from the last time someone did a school project on a poem so i’ll email you a version of that letter by midnight tonight at the latest, otherwise you have my full consent to begin 🎓📝📚

give your cells my warmest regards!

hey! so I don’t have much experience with this. Perhaps a counselor would be of more help.

But what I CAN tell you is this: it’s not all or nothing. You can mentally divide what you loved about that person FROM who that person was or what they did to you.
So for example, you can love that they showed up every single day with coffee for you (a trait) but you can hate him! If it helps, take it one day at time and write out what it was about him that you loved and you’ll maybe begin to see that what you loved were traits he showcased and not actually him. Then you can take that information, and you can find someone who shows those traits & ISNT him. You are allowed to love him in the pieces that remind you of good times! But you don’t have to keep him with you.

And sorry if my message seems rude in any way. I simply wish to understand it and see if I’m missing something important!

i always welcome thoughts and critique so dont feel bad about ur message, also i dont take myself too seriously im not winning pulitzers for this stuff (yet!). what you’re referencing from the powm is:

 “to a bystander I must look like I just gave birth but the secret is: I did, I keep giving birth to stillborn versions myself hoping one of us lives.”

it was a typo, but i didnt feel like editing it after people started reblogging it, just for the sake of continuity, also im really lazy yikes. u are correct and there is no deeper meaning unless you want there to be

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I apologize for the recent decline in my work, I haven’t been up to par and it reflects but uhhh thank you. I hope to become worthy of your compliments one day 🙏🏽

🙏🏽 I appreciate you!

it is very much a “living exploration” piece of a time that was outstanding singularly for the overall weight+negativity, good eye

Definitely surreal!

Thanks for sharing it with me. It’s always strange but extremely validating when established poets // other poets acknowledge me, I don’t know why but I always feel like I’m shouting into a black hole more often than not lol

hello hello, i grew up relatively isolated, so i garnered a love of books that evolved to words really early on so now im onto dissecting individual letters in words. somewhat ironically, i hated poetry and i still struggle with liking it to this day. i think that’s what “inspires” me whenever i write, the idea of making something that isn’t common sense-y, that isn’t boring, that isn’t just like …the same thing regurgitated over and over and over again. 

hmm im not “good” at a timetable; i know, and agree, that the most important thing is to create a writing schedule and stick to it but i honestly cant stand the thought of creating something just bc it’s scheduled, like my words are so meaningless that something as fake as time can dictate that they “come.” or else!!!, or any other reason than the poem itself is speaking to an underlying part of me and it must be expressed. anyway, my writing usually sucks IMO but it’s still something i enjoy sharing on a certain level bc humanity seeks communication, seeks to be acknowledged and i think the same goes for our feelings + thoughts too.

bottom line is that i like things that i would personally like to see or read or hear. things that i haven’t seen or things that are a combination of things i’ve seen in a way that i haven’t seen. 

I am elated that you were able to take something from my words and use it. Thank you for sharing this with me! I wish you the best.

whoa thank you so much!

welcome! hope you enjoy your time here <3

it’s a bit of a tug-of-war with the wordsmith, sometimes she wants to play other times she leaves but i’ll figure out a way to get her to stay eventually. maybe with some flowers and chocolate. i think she’ll like that. 

thank you for sharing this with me :) 

Oh! Yes I know, it just didn’t immediately click for me. I’m an ENTP I believe but my intro/extroversion are close in range like 52% ex, 48% in :)