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Heather Martin (@cadenzacreates)

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Fear of Living Once

FOLO — I am getting closer to that time — that hour of despair. Lost in wonder, unceasing, but nowhere to place my cares. Heavy-laden, I sit. I marvel at the stars. I think this is it — what more than to be what we are? Here. Now. Never more or less…

Life

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Fear of Living Once
Fear of Living Once
Life

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Move Me Poetry

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I Tell a Story Metered in Time

The poet’s plight — I am a poet, and that is my plight. I try to write memoir, but all I do is fight — with the idea that the truth is easier said when packaged as rhyme. All wounds heal, or so they say, “give it time.” But this cut feels fresh, so…

Poetry

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I Tell a Story Metered in Time
I Tell a Story Metered in Time
Poetry

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Blue Insights

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Spare Change

We get what we can take — A prose poem. Last night I watched a man pay for his packs of Coca-Cola with a bag of spare change. His toothless frown — emboldened by the wrinkles encasing his face. …

Poetry

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Spare Change
Spare Change
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Blue Insights

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This Old Earth

Keeps me in line — “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.” Thornton Wilder, Our Town There’s not much new to this place we call Earth — the wallpaper, once silk grandeur, is cracked, and people don’t want wallpaper anymore. Or that’s what “they” say, and I guess it’s true — this…

Poetry

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This Old Earth
This Old Earth
Poetry

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Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

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Creatures of the Earth After the Flood

Antediluvian Manifestations — There is a life beyond the river of self-limiting belief. A redefinition of existence on our terms — untethered from the mundane expectations set for us by prisoners of an unimaginative trance. Across that twisting river of troublesome toil — on the other side of that insipid ravine lies a…

Life

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Creatures of the Earth After the Flood
Creatures of the Earth After the Flood
Life

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Move Me Poetry

·Aug 12

Grieving Wrong Turns

Every loss requires healing — You may experience immense sadness even when the “wrong” thing ends. Relationships and roles that — didn’t serve your true self still played a real part, shaping you now. Grieving heals. You can cry. Grief is confusing. One, it never follows a singular track; instead, it winds about cyclically —…

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Grieving Wrong Turns
Grieving Wrong Turns
Poetry

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Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

·Aug 4

A Finite Allegory

I have been the brightest star — I have been the brightest star, shining through the drudgery of a cloud-soaked sky. “Oh, how marvelous you are” — sustained on morsels of praise sent aloft by stranded travelers on their way to nowhere. I have been the quiet stream, roaming through the thick weeds of your backyard. “Oh…

Poetry

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A Finite Allegory
A Finite Allegory
Poetry

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Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

·Jun 20

Unfinished Poems

Fully actualized life — Unfinished poems collect dust. In digital drawers — delayed. My heart. Can I trust? In time, I will find the right words — the perfect rhyme to articulate the pain and passion that is now latent. Waiting. Will the sun dawn one morning only to watch me sleep and then…

Poetry

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Unfinished Poems
Unfinished Poems
Poetry

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Blue Insights

·Jun 16

Stargazing and Suffering

What will be will be — What if it was enough? What I said then — on that day — even if it came out crooked and off-tempo — even if it hit that spot inside of you that no one dares to glimpse, let alone touch. What if ineloquence was the balm you craved? What…

Life

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Stargazing and Suffering
Stargazing and Suffering
Life

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Blue Insights

·Feb 8

A Pyrrhic Victory

Adrift on the Sea of Dreams Come True — I woke up adrift on the Sea of Dreams Come True. Flat-backed on a makeshift raft, unsure how far south I was from the nightmares that might set me free. Days lapsed, and nights came to pass, and I marveled at the promise of this place foretold. I had done…

Poetry

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A Pyrrhic Victory
A Pyrrhic Victory
Poetry

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Heather Martin (@cadenzacreates)

Heather Martin (@cadenzacreates)

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Believer in human potential and the power of words. https://linktr.ee/cadenzacreates

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