Searching for Closure

Searching for Closure is a journey through the grief of life. The end product from this journey will be a compilation of poems and prose following the five stages of grief. You can follow the authors, Jennie and Morgan, here.

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Neil Hilborn - This Is Not the End of the World (x)

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Check out Neil’s book!

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“Love it anyway.”

[existential-celestial]

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

Sylvia Plath, in a journal entry dated August 8, 1952, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962 (via poetsandwriters)

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Between my finger and my gun The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Seamus Heaney, “Digging”

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And so it was that Brom the storyteller died.

Christopher Paolini, Eragon

[remnant-thoughts]

Perhaps it is better this way.

“I wish you the best” remnant-thoughts (via remnant-thoughts)

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I grit my teeth against the pieces of you sliding across my lips. Your name has lived in my mouth for months.

m.b. (via wnq-writers)

[jessrhodes]

west virginia

2013

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“There is no mile so long as the final one that leads back home.” -Katherine Marsh, Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

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I don’t know whether to despise you for stealing my innocence away, or whether to thank you for making me see the world for what it really is and people for who they really are.

thewriterthatnobodynoticed  (via wnq-writers)

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Send us ALL of the questions.

I’m in desperate need of a break.

-Jennie

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Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Bernard Malamud (via psliterary)

We’re about to start the serious editing process on our book, and I hope this proves true for us.

(via thegriefproject)

From personal experience at university, I know for a fact that revision is the pleasures of Hell. Congratulations, you have to burn the fields in which you have dedicated days/weeks of your life.

I might be bitter about some of the things I’ve had to do this semester.

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Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Bernard Malamud (via psliterary)

We’re about to start the serious editing process on our book, and I hope this proves true for us.

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iridescent

(irəˈdes(ə)nt), adjective | In our list of most beautiful words in the English language, iridescent is the most mystically colorful in the spectrum of vocabulary. Iridescence describes the change of color at different angles. Most importantly, it focuses on the luminosity projected by each color. Its beauty is also found in its sound; just say the word. Uttering the word evokes enough beauty, but defining the word establishes an ethereal quality of color found in nature, such as that of a rainbow, seashells or soap bubbles.  (via wnq-writers)

Describe something iridescent for me.

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“Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.”

- Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home”

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Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

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Oh, my god. This.

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And it was after months of silence that I realized we make better strangers than we ever did anything else.

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Tonight the universe is testing me more than ever: it’s asking me to forgive you, even though you’re not sorry.

sesapoetry (via wnq-writers)

You know. 

-Jennie

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Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

Allie Condie

Sometimes. Sometimes I hate it.