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sobs, sniffles and smiles.

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There's art nowhere for the duffers

And everywhere for the lovers.

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Dont let people get to you too much. When they get free they think you're a tree, even if they cut you down you wont say a word.

Assert boundaries.

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Open your eyes to what is happening around the world. Educate yourself. Awareness is the beginning of change. Real education starts when you start asking why injustice exists, when you read about the world, when you refuse to stay comfortable while others suffer. Educate yourself and others around you, form opinions, seek truth, read history and stay curious because curiosity is dangerous to those who profit from your slience.

[akajustmerry]

it really is mind-boggling to me that the only reason i know about the Congolese and Sudanese genocides is because of the tireless work of grassroots activists and advocates posting on social media. I can honestly say that if I didn't have social media and didn't happen to be following Black authors and activists, I never would have known what was happening in Sudan and Congo because it is simply not being reported in the great majority of mainstream media. We're talking millions upon millions of PEOPLE enduring unimaginable pain and devastation with next to no official reporting. And yes that is in huge part due to the level of violence and displacement occurring that is preventing a lot of news from getting out of these countries, but it's also so blatantly due to anti-Black racism and the perception of African Nations as inherently savage and violent. But genocide is not and never should be normal for anyone anywhere. With that in mind, please keep Congo and Sudan in your thoughts. Check out Focus Congo for resources to help the Congolese people on the ground. Focus Congo's MO is a local organisation whose goal is to rebuild homes, rehabilitate land, and provide medical aid, education, and resources to Congo's most affected people. Also, Check out Keep Eyes On Sudan for how to help out and raise awareness of Sudanese people displaced by civil war. According to Sudanese TikToker bsonblast, donations to local food kitchens in Sudan are desperately needed to fight famine. If anyone has other resources specifically for helping Congo and Sudan, please add them and link them <3

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Never wish for death in hard times, never forget death in good times.

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2025 was cruel to me. My hopes died and my existence cried.

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Even if you decide to slow down and take a break, life's never going to wait for you. You're on a respite but life keeps happening.

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Time to finish all the books that I have started reading this year but left in the middle because its September and we are almost close to year end.

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I write whatever comes to my mind. Any fkn random thing that most of the times doesn't even makes sense and I know it does not make me a writer but still in hopes that maybe some unformed egg like me find sense and direction in my writing.

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The fact that amuses me the most is that noone can never read all of the books present on the planet. It breaks my heart that there will be stories untouched and unheard.

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Forever the girl who would take pictures of the things she loves.

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I realized that Im not really into reading books but buying books. Not the pretty aesthetic books that people usually pay hard bucks for, rather rotten books that looks like someone had it in the 1600s, read It, and threw it in the bin and now it is in my hands(yeah these kind of books). Luckily I have a cute little bookstore near my house that sells such books but the only problem is my mum saying on a daily basis 'what you gonna do with the pile of books you bought again, you don't even read it', and I don't have any answer to that. Tell me Im not alone and there are people like me. Also suggest some answers I can Give to mum.

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Guess we're in a zombie apocalypse already, just the zombies around us don't eat us directly.

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At one point I think im healing while the other times I feel somewhat like im drowning more. Tell me its part of the process????

[funeral]

David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity

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The creative urge to hold a pen and a diary and write about anything that comes to my mind and create a rhythm out of it. I hope it never goes away, THE URGE.

[metamorphesque]

poetry recommendations for january

I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

The New Decade by Hieu Minh Nguyen

Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors by Richard Siken

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

Having a Coke with You by Frank O'Hara

Shokushu Goukan for the Cyborg Soul by Franny Choi

Untitled by James Baldwin

What’s Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

The Horse Fell Off the Poem by Mahmoud Darwish

The Crunch by Charles Bukowski

The Touch by Anne Sexton

i love you to the moon & by Chen Chen

Winter by Chen Chen