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“If you ignore your feelings they will get your attention in other ways.”

— Kathy Kalina

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you’re not my mom

I was going to keep this beautiful poem to myself because it hurts too much. But who really cares, if I share myself.

#Thoughts #ephy #me #poem #Poet #poetry #Q

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richard siken, i had a dream about you / marya hornbacher, wasted / henri de toulouse-lautrec, in bed the kiss / iain thomas, i wrote this for you / ron hicks, spending more time / ada limón, the end of poetry / marie howe, before the beginning / nikki giovanni, introspection / peter wever, embrace / shauna barbosa, gps

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Mind is anything experienced inside your head that is not literally happening in this moment.

Consciousness is everything experienced in this moment, including mind.

Awareness is the feeling you have that you exist, and it is also the reason why it feels like anything exists.

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How strange to dream of you even when I'm awake

~d.j.

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“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”

— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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“Choosing to be kind is not choosing to be passive. It’s choosing to end the cycle of abuse.”

— Melissa Grey

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“to be a woman is to perform”

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Sayoko Yamaguchi @ Thierry Mugler Spring/Summer, 1985 Ready-to-Wear

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— Trista Mateer ,“I Still Forget We’re Not Even Friends”

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{Words by Lily Rain @lilyrainpoetry on Instagram}

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The first time our eyes met across a crowded room, it was not love at first sight. Love did not grab me by the throat. Instead when I looked at you, I saw the flowers in the meadow I used to play in as a child. What I mean to say is, every time I think of you, I remember the safest, most sacred place I ever knew. Every time I touch you, my whole body blossoms with wildflowers.

Nikita Gill

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{Aracelis Girmay, from "This Morning the Small Bird Brought a Message from the Other Side," Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011) / Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ruth Tiffanny Beuscher written c. July 1962}

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- I Guess the Old You is a Ghost (#589: June 25, 2014)

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Jodi Picoult from My Sister's Keeper / Maggie Nelson from Bluets

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