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My 4th grade English teacher

“One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way. As someone who matters. As someone who can make a difference in this world.”

— Susane Colasanti

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someone said we had more fun in childhood because we didnt have any past memories to linger on and it has stuck with me ever since

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The thing people don’t realize about writing is that time spent just staring out the window is CRITICAL

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the stoic teenager to being on the verge of tears anytime something slightly inconvenient happens adult pipeline is very real

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yes girl I think it’s incredibly sexy how indecisive you are about every single decision in your life. I also love how you haven’t let anything go since you were 12. can we make out now

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Ada Limón, from "To the Busted Among Us", Sharks in the Rivers

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Would you grab my hand, if I were sinking deep?

Would you risk it all? Because words are cheap

Would you run into the fire? Through the flames and smoke?

Would you risk being burnt? Or baby would you choke?

When you delve deep into my soul, into the darkest corners of my mind

Will you pull me out? Will you hold me close? Or will you just leave me behind?

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Mr Darcy is so fucking unsubtle all of the time I truly don't understand how Elizabeth doesn't get it. Someone mentions Elizabeth likes books? Darcy immediately goes into a rant about how he wants a wife that reads. Elizabeth says she wants to live close to her family? Darcy is bending over backwards to figure out how far is too far, would she mind it if she could easily travel back at forth, would she miss the people or the places. My girl he's so down bad, he's just autistic.

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poem excerpt by me | a uquiz i'm unable to find | Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper | Natalie Diaz, A Brother Named Gethsemane | tiktok | tumblr | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz | The Bible

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I sit on the terrace, hands beneath my chin

Reminiscing the last time when I flashed a genuine grin

The wind blows, my hair flying making a mess

I don't feel okay, the hardest thing I'll ever confess

An empty void inside my heart

The surreal and weird feeling since the start

What has it been that's bothering me?

The past me that I now set free or

The worry for the future unseen

Now, I stand and watch the city from a distance

Looking up in the sky and moving on

The gentle breeze, my fluttering eyes

Lone tear rolls down after all the failed tries

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Midst of the chaos and hustle of the city

To the views and and sceneries so pretty

Lights flickering and raging bright

Squinting eyes, blinding your sight

Distance voices of the cars and trains

Roaring of the enormous planes

Lies behind a yearning for the countryside

So fresh and gently breeze all the way wide

Fields blooming with flowers

Can never complete with the glittery towers

The misty wind and the radiant flower

Crowding the sky, a million of stars

From all the worries and endless deadlines,

the perfect and incredible place to hide

I'll forever be a city girl who yearns for the countryside

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I'll forever be a city girl who yearns the serenity of the countryside

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I’ve been telling myself the reason I can’t write anymore is because I’m not sad. Because there’s no pain inside me to flow out of my trembling hands onto paper, there are no sorrows clouding my vision to make my poetry hazy.

I can see straight and sometimes I feel poetry needs to be twirly and zigzagg-y.

But, I’ve been trying to be sad lately. Trying to find wretchedness among the mists, among the nights I stay up laughing, trying to feel what I felt before, trying to pour poetry back into my veins. Maybe this is some stupid excuse.

But here’s how it really is. I keep finding myself beaming at unfamiliar faces and sipping hot chocolate over brunch dates with new friends, or falling back into rhythm with old ones.

Or that one time I snuck out to my best friend’s house and we danced to alcohol in our bodies but we were sober enough to remember one of the best nights of our life. So maybe there’s nothing poetic about this. Or maybe there is.

I know poetry is more beautiful than sad and there’s something really very beautiful about loving life.

-H.S.

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Drowning in her sorrows

Glassy eyes, for all the suffering

Staying shriveled up in the corner

Softly gazing at the torn pieces of paper

She looks up at the ceiling

Hands muffling her sobs

Echoed the screeching scream for help

Eyes closed as the realisation occurred

When no one had come to her rescue

The little girl she once was

Has now lost in the surreal dream of hers

Exposed to the brutality of the world

Holding fast to the blade in her hand

Blood running down the wrist

Pain fading, stumbling on her feet

Her porcelain complexion that has now turned pale

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