Miscellaneous Mind.

If you really want to know me, open a book. I'm there, in the margin, waiting to be discovered.

[emyntrexn]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Trista Mateer, from “i still forget we’re not even friends”

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— R. Arnold

[poemwav]

– Jackie Wang | from "The Crypt Seed"

[thepowerwithin]

Sometimes second chances come as a new friend, an interesting book or an unexpected trip. Not always will they be what we expect.

Dr. Nicole Addison

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

[emyntrexn]

Sometimes all it takes is to be the butt of someone else’s fat joke, to remember who you are and get motivated.

My body shouldn’t be your business.

[askyea-poesy]

There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.

Luna Adriana

[emyntrexn]

[remanence-of-love]

[nudgeaf]

As long as you love it...

[remanence-of-love]

[resqectable]

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

— Mary Oliver

[weltenwellen]

Ilya Kaminsky, from "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses", Deaf Republic

[emyntrexn]

I write the same poem;

Over and over and over.

No matter which words I put down;

It’s always the same poem.

The same pain;

The same ruin;

The same broken dreams;

The same crushed egg shells;

The same shards of glass;

The same fiery coals;

The same bleeding heart bursting through my throat;

The same poem.

-6/15/21

[emyntrexn]

Let’s raise a toast…

To all the versions of myself that had to die..

To all the versions of myself I had to bury…

To all the lives I have mourned..

For I wasn’t really in a coffin, but a seed coat…

To all the versions that will continue to shed,

To be buried, to die to nourish and be further planted..

So I may continue to bloom and grow into the future me.

—-8/16/23

[emyntrexn]

If you had your own personal sunshine you’d protect it too. No one ever wanted to keep me for themselves, that’s what they did to you.

Like a possession?

Yes. One you show off, and one you hide so as not to risk anyone else wanting it.

-5/22/2023