Poetry And Fragments Of My Heart.

25 year old poet, mother, and lover.

[jazminspoetry]

You are all things earth

Soil, roots, and trees

Water and sunlight

You are everything you need

Everything is you

You are sustenance, embodied in human form

[jazminspoetry]

I will not take back the love I gave you. I loved you the only way I knew how, immensely.

I nourished you, and you flourished

And I witnessed it.

I will not take back the love I gave you

For it was the only time I felt genuine to myself.

[jazminspoetry]

You write so lovely. 💞

Thank you! I greatly appreciate it

[jazminspoetry]

I know not where I belong

Not here, there, or where I am headed

I’ve lived past what I expected.

-@jazminspoetry

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“As a writer, if someone falls in love with my work, I know they have fallen in love with my mind. Having no idea what my face looks like, they chose my mind. Art may be the only place a woman can be whole without being seen.”

Nayyirah Waheed

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Art and love are the same thing: it’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. It’s understanding the unreasonable.”

— Chuck Klosterman

[jazminspoetry]

Imagine if I were for everybody

If I pleased and was liked by all?

Imagine how much of myself I’d have to get rid of to accommodate to everyone’s needs? I wouldn’t be me

I am not for everyone

A special acquired taste is needed for me

And if you’re not craving me..

I will upset your stomach.

[jazminspoetry]

No one ever told me that unlearning would leave me feeling untaught, unprepared and oblivious

At 23. I’m surviving and relearning, simultaneously, and it is exhausting.

@jazminspoetry

[wordsnquotes]

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

— Leonard Cohen

[books-n-quotes]

“Maybe that’s what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish…”

— Tom Perotta, Election

[jazminspoetry]

I weep for women who have not yet correlated love with gentle hands

-love will find you, and love will be kind

[jazminspoetry]

Forgive me

For my sharp tongue

And assuming mind

For this wilting heart has taken all the heartache it could take.

I am cautious, I am mean, I am protecting what’s left of me.

@jazminspoetry

[jazminspoetry]

We focus on fathers that abandoned us

And not mothers who sacrificed their wombs for us.

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[jazminspoetry]

Life has not been kind lord, it has beaten me when I was already defeated,

It was cruel when I was still innocent

It showed no mercy when I was suffering.

Excuse me for my lack of faith.

[books-n-quotes]

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

[books-n-quotes]

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin

[jazminspoetry]

To the men that have hurt me

I forgive you

Some more heinous than the others

But all tragic

I no longer cry for you

I no longer associate a raised arm with injury,

I don’t flinch.

I no longer have to carry your burdens along with my own

I rid you, from body, soul and spirit

I don’t have to live with you

Darling, but you still have to live with yourself

And that alone is more than I can ask for.

@jazminspoetry