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21 | she/her | aspiring author

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An Inexhaustive List of Things I Hope are Never Truly Forgotten

Shirts that breathe with the wind. Phone calls from anyone, anywhere. Paper train tickets. Milk bottles that might break with the spillage. Tights. Church bells that ring on the hour. Postcards. Armchairs by the fireside. Coins in my pocket. Books. Theatres in all their prestige. Telegrams in all their succinctness. Fountain pens. Velvet adorning bodies and furniture alike. Brooches. Watches for timekeeping. Teapots. Gloves for any season. Radios. Old paintings above the piano. Classical architecture. Coats. Alarm clocks to hold me truly accountable. Cameras. Conversations in all their sincerity. Cardigans. Address books. Baths that need no occasion. Records. Typewriters to tell you my stories. 

Ophelia Penning

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I love old things. So, any chance I get, I love them more and more. Beauty is out there. It’s near and far. It’s right under our noses, and it takes time to unveil. 

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How the fuck am I supposed to carry on without you here?

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Bring Back Merry, Bring Back Free!

In the depths of our bitterness and malice,  Bring back merry, bring back free!

When tomorrow is glazed to the edges, Bring back merry, bring back free!

For new dreams, for day-dreams, for ever, Bring back merry, bring back free!

This our promise is a balm for our pain, But never a misspoken plea.

As in darkness thrives the unseeing, So shall we grow; succeed.

18-7-23

- Ophelia Penning

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My poem Clean Slate as King of Scars characters

If the slate was wiped clean, would I even be here? Am I not just a mosaic of jagged edges constantly in renovation? The past is never in

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Pure and spotless we are born Into a world of ash and darkness, Until the wheel revolves again, To the start from the end.

- Ophelia Penning

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Fool is the rich man For he seeks pleasure In that which He can never own.

-Ophelia Penning

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In these pages, I first understood what it meant to be another person. True empathy. Even if I was just a fledgling being constantly adapting, I could always dip my toes into the lives of others. It wasn’t imagination, as such, because I was there. These characters sunk their teeth somewhere inside my soul, and I was glad of it. No greater teacher existed. 

- Ophelia Penning

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Our Souls Could Never Be Uniform

We read, we consume, because we want to feel. The hurt, the love; The morose, the blissful; The tears.

We want to know that our bones have not yet rusted, Our heartstrings can still be tuned as we need them to be. What is it that truly makes one day stand out from the rest? Our souls could never be uniform.

- Ophelia Penning

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Clean Slate by Ophelia Penning

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If the slate was wiped clean, would I even be here? 

Am I not just a mosaic of jagged edges constantly in renovation? 

The past is never in the past and I cannot ignore it. 

This is learning, this is life. 

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I Fall in Love When

I fall in love with people when I unveil how they operate in this world, When I watch and learn about how they think, worry, feel, respond, love,

When I pick apart the puzzle pieces and see the kaleidoscope of existence for what it really is,  When I realise that their thoughts might just be as complicated as mine, 

When a shared moment might not just be a coincidence,  When I allow myself to consider more. 

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I love the bells that ring on the hour. They remind me of a world much simpler. Time wasn’t everywhere, but only where it needed to be for that particular hour. The birds must know time for only the bells.

Ophelia Penning

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Give Me

Give me daisies and nettles

Give me love poems and swallowed fears

Give me all it takes to keep going

And watch me love it with everything . . .

Ophelia Penning

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You may still walk in the dark, but you will not walk alone.

Ophelia Penning

Loving Someone at Their Worst

1. (cont.)  Loving Unconditionally is a Rarity by Ophelia Penning / 2. Shadow and Bone / 4. Rings of Power / 6. Black Sails / 8. The Hunger Games / 9. Dressed in Black by Sia / 10+11 Merlin / 12. (+ heading) quote by Ophelia Penning 

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Our past had crawled into the trees,

Into the seas and from the valleys.

It showed us what had been, what would be

And what would never cease being.

Ophelia Penning

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Symptoms of the Intangible Kind, pt. 2

Ophelia Penning