One of my first blog posts was about “unshared poetry”– the poems we write for ourselves without the desire or need to share them. In my opinion, these poems help us heal (the writer, not the reader). However, today, I will be sharing some of my own personal “unshared poetry.” I consider that enough time …
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Twenty-One Things I Learned At Twenty-One
<< Inspired by Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton>> You can spend hours, days, and months planning the perfect life. You can plan at what age you would like to graduate, when you would get married, how long it would take you to find your dream job, and around what time you would …
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Behind The Scenes of One of The Poems In My Book: “Tangible Gone Abstract”
Most of the times, I let my poems do the talking. I am merely a medium for words to come alive. Yet today I choose to tell you, or perhaps even explain, how one of the poems in my book came to be. Several poems I write are based on my emotions yet the concrete …
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Tips To Build a Productive Writing Routine
As a writer, I go through phases. Some days, I think of poems almost involuntarily. Some others, I sit down and stare at a blank page for long minutes before coming up with a line or two that I may not even be proud of. During the years, I have tried coming up with a …
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Books To Help You Heal From Heartbreak
I have been recommending a lot of books based on genre or occasion, and this time I have decided to share some of my favorite books to heal from heartbreak – of any kind. Everything About Love by Dolly Alderton As you will see, I will be sharing books of different genres. In this case, …
What Is Left of Us
You stayed with me when I moved out of my old house and into the new one. Both addresses still live in the back of your mind where we pile up the information that we might one day need– or in your case, the information that used to be important but no longer matters. You …
Books For Historical Fiction Lovers
I have been obsessed with historical fiction for about two years. So obsessed, that I have spent around a year reading solely historical fiction. It is the perfect mixture of history and literature. As a kid, I have always felt intrigued and inspired by history. During my middle school years (when I still lived in …
Unshared Poetry
Since I opened my Instagram writing account, I am consistently thinking what will I post next? While writing, in my opinion, is about healing and deciphering our emotions, it is easy to forget the purpose. We live in a world where we have become products for consumption. I assumed that all of my poems had …
Books You Need To Read
Lust for Life by Irving Stone I am the fourth generation in my family reading this book. The first person to ever read it (in my family) was my great-grandfather, then my grandmother, and my dad. The feeling of reading something knowing it is a family tradition always makes the experience more enjoyable. When I …
Self-Publishing My Poetry Book: Metamorphosis
I have been writing poetry for years now, probably around six years. Of course, that my writing has improved throughout the years– and will hopefully continue to get better with experience. It got to a point where I wanted to do something with all those poems buried in the pages of my journal or taking …
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