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Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

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Autumn’s Misdemeanors

A human’s purpose met — I remember all the poor decisions I’ve made in the fall. Autumn’s misdemeanors: places I loved full of people who never loved at all. The leaves last testament before they turned to dust — a fiery inferno of colors signifying a lust — for life and entanglements that were never…

Life

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Autumn’s Misdemeanors
Autumn’s Misdemeanors
Life

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Scuzzbucket

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This is the Line We Draw Between Us

Old Wounds — This is the line we draw between us — a reminder of who will win. A chalk mark on the pavement, signifying where you begin and I end. If you cross it, will I forgive you? Well, that depends upon the day. Don’t sigh — that truth extends two ways. …

Poetry

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This is the Line We Draw Between Us
This is the Line We Draw Between Us
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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Blue Insights

·Sep 30

At Wandering’s End

We begin — We have come to the end of our wandering and are left with questions still. About life and the impending death of all that we hold dear — and near to us as blankets to infants, they placate our ubiquitous doubts. We suckle at the teet of dependence as we…

Life

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At Wandering’s End
At Wandering’s End
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 —…

Poetry

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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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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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