Tag: poetry
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Showing up
Today, I am showing up to do the thing. The thing I don’t want to do. The thing I am an expert at finding excuses to not do. Because it’s hard. Because I deeply understand that I do want to do the thing, and my deep wanting raises the stakes to the point where not-doing…
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For My Lily
My smart watch is smarter than I am. Sometimes it reminds me to breathe.It counts each breath for me:Inhale 2… 3… 4… 5…Exhale 2… 3… 4… 5… It has all these functionsthat allow me to calculate my well-being. The pedometer tells me if I’ve moved enough.And it has GPSso it also tells me if I’ve…
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Capitalism as Babel: Sundering the Languages of Art
To write poetry you need a philosopher’s heart, but to write philosophy, you don’t need to be a poet. Metaphor is one of the most universal mechanisms for integration of knowing. Thinking about something is just a superficial process, but knowing is deep, and that’s where true philosophers find their work, where poets have to…
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Navigating the Waste Land of Generational Trauma
A narrative review of It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn What are the roots that clutch, what branches growOut of this stony rubbish? Son of man,You cannot say, or guess, for you know onlyA heap of broken images, where the sun beats,And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,And the…
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The Gift of Words
A poem about healing through sharing grief I will tell you what I fear. What hurts. I will tell you what I value above all. I will tell you my broken edged stories of regret. These words are a gift. I will give them to you so that you know I do not hold them…