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I’m a whimsical girl Full of wonder Full of lore There is the tea On a shelf at a store Everything you do Proves me right You wanted a hold A grasp so tight Choke on your dose Of your daughter’s soul You missed those moments When I became whole
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Breathe the petals of curls Fluorescent light, string of pearls Thorns shoot from the stem Threading new silk in a hem I stare into his ocean blues In silence, watching his ques Why does love feel this way? Like finding your needle inside of hay Better not drop it back in the stack Guess my…
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Write about the pain that shoots through your heart Wherever you were, they’d tear you apart Write about the way they buried your name Like your soul was a pawn in their toxic game Write about how you outsmarted them all Straightened your back and stood up tall Write about how you found peace leaving…
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On the first warm day Thaw smell in the air The sun will warm my skin Wind will knot my hair The grass will dance And I’ll feel at ease Under a swaying branch Of my maple trees
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One day when I’m withered and old After the trees fall bare and the air turns cold I’ll look at the peaks all around The snow on the ground muffling sound And wince at what could have been Had I not chosen peace Had I not looked within
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My cousin had a lot to say to me over New Year’s Eve at that snowy mountain mansion. The same Green Mountains that fostered my healing became a pit of snakes the second I walked through the all-too-familiar door of my aunt’s home. Two things I learned from hearing about myself from someone who watched…
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I sometimes wonder where I could be had I not lit a match and set it all on fire. What would my life look like had I stayed and swept up the dirt that had become caked onto the floor, an endless task it was, lying to myself about my own happiness. Change is hard,…
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What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in? Bog Witch
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