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happy national poetry month! here is my poem for the first day of the month. to see if i am actually able to keep up with the challenge of writing a new poem every day in april pls follow my instagram stormiewrites! 💫 (spoiler alert: i probably won’t be able to but we are trying our best!)

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Time really did heal my wounds and make me softer. 💫 I’ve been trying to focus on all of the things that have been making me happy lately and appreciate them more. This includes: waking up and putting on real clothes, setting aside time to catch up on reading, spending time with my family even if we’re just sitting in silence together watching tv and making Spotify playlists that perfectly capture how I’m feeling in that moment. What are some things that bring you joy? . . . , . #stormiewrites #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7AdzSlrlD/?igshid=3g65fgcgivb6

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I’m always expecting my world to end but it never does. It never does. 🌛 this is a line from a poem in my second poetry collection i’m working on. i have a bad habit of always expecting the worst to happen and expecting every bad thing to end me but yet here i am surviving it all. that’s got to count for something. . . . . #stormiewrites #poetsofinstagram #poetry #spilledink #writingcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CE4bY_pFUln/?igshid=g4rxkfe6sac5

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Still haunted by aging images. | Who else spirals whenever old photos pop up in their Facebook or Snapchat memories and suddenly wishes they felt young and alive again? 🙃 . . . . . #stormiewrites #poetry #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CErkfr-FMyN/?igshid=9mxfghb9k70s

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An excerpt from a poem in book two where I imagine myself writing a letter or an email to an old friend who would rather not hear from me. | I haven’t been posting as much the past few weeks because I’ve been really focusing on finishing the remainder of book two and trying to share less from it so there’s more of a surprise when it comes out! 👼🏻🥰 . . . . . #stormiewrites #poetsofinstagram #poetry #poetrycommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CEj03mtlpgk/?igshid=bvmbcfdxkfxi

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You still haunt but no longer hurt. | This line doesn’t really belong to a poem yet, it’s just something that I wrote down when brainstorming for another poem. Isn’t it funny how you can be completely over a person or a situation but yet they still linger with you reminding you of the hurt you once endured? . . . . . #stormiewrites #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poetry https://www.instagram.com/p/CEZg6vVF_7f/?igshid=khht37jqu7zn

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The first poem is something that I wrote for a class when I was sixteen and just had my heartbroken. The assignment was to write something that demanded to not just sit on paper but be read out loud. It was also the first one of my poems that ever got any attention online which was comforting to scared sixteen year old me. In retrospect there’s so much I would change about the formatting of the poem but I am proud of younger me for writing it. I was social media stalking the person the poem is about last night and ended up seeing some things that hurt me in an unexpected way and decided to write a response to the first poem. When I sat down to write the response poem I expected it to be just as bitter and petty and vengeful as the first one but that’s not what happened. While there’s still leftover hurt here, it’s not as angry anymore. The wound is closed. I wish them well. 🌜 p.s don’t fucking stalk your ex online!! nothing good comes of it!! p.s.s: shoutout to @madisonblok for the first photo! . . . #stormiewrites #poetry #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CEUZhHml7EZ/?igshid=blhc96bz9awx

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We were who we were until we weren’t anymore. | With everything being shut down and everyone quarantining the last few months its left me with a lot of time to reflect on the past. All of the past versions of myself I have ever been, all of my past lovers and friends. I have made myself sick with nostalgia. But, it’s also made for really great poetry and self discovery. I’ve learned a lot about myself this year. I’ve also finished my second poetry collection and I’ve decided that I’m going to reveal the title of it once I hit 500 followers. This has definitely been a super strange and depressing year but I am thankful for the time to reflect. . . . . . #stormiewrites #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CEE8Ym2FNMG/?igshid=fjr6h590pgs9