Category: Poetry
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — Before the Moment Passes
A tender, aching prose poem about answering the small miracles before they slip away. A reflection on regret, presence, and the fragile urgency of love.
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern: The Quiet Terror of Not Enough
A modern abecedarian poem about the quiet terror of feeling like your not enough. A Thursday Lantern entry on doubt and endurance.
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern: Static Between Stations
The piece reflects on a solitary night drive filled with static and memory, exploring themes of nostalgia, the quiet resonance of November, and self-awareness.
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern: The Troll’s Liturgy
The piece explores the chaotic modern landscape of digital culture, depicting how society collectively nurtures toxicity, transforming outrage into a new form of worship while reflecting on our troubling progress.
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern: Hoodie Season
Hoodie Season evokes nostalgia and acceptance, highlighting comfort amidst change during October’s chill.
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern: Lantern at the Door
A weekly light — poetry, stories, and reflections from the strange in-between. Lantern at the Door I leave a light for the ones who wander,the restless, the dreamers,the ones who look backward when the night gets too quiet. This door opens to nowhere and everywhere.Inside: stories that hum like trapped bees,poems stitched from old smoke…
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Countdown to 40: Publish the Damn Book.
One Year, One Book, No Excuses. Today I turn 39, and I’m officially putting the universe on notice: by the time I turn 40, I’m publishing a book. Not thinking about it, not quietly tinkering while making excuses. A real book. With my name on the cover. Something you can hold, read, spill coffee on,…
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The Times I Was Here
My daughter is seven, and this is her second year playing softball. Instructional league. That beautiful, chaotic mix of learning and laughing, missed catches, tiny victories, and too-big helmets. She loves it. Lives and dies with every swing, every play. And I’ve found myself just… there. Not loud. Not hovering. Just steady.Watching—just a bit back…
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⛈️Inside the Storm: Reflections on Downpour
Some horror stories come at you with claws out—fast, loud, violent.Downpour by Christopher Hawkins doesn’t do that. It creeps in.Just like the storm in the book. The story centers on a father trying to protect his family from an unrelenting, corrosive rainstorm—and everything that comes with it. But what got under my skin wasn’t the…
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Beneath the Ash: A Journey Through Mistborn
The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson profoundly impacted me, with deep character development, intricate worldbuilding, and themes of identity and loyalty that resonated deeply throughout the series.