Tag: Poetry
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — Brainstorm
I make the storm on purpose. I don’t wait for it. I shut the door in my head And let the pressure climb Until the air starts to move On its own
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — When the World Goes Dark
Things feel bleak and biblical lately—politics, hate, the world unraveling. Not a sermon, but a whisper of survival: not yet, not like this.
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — Low Emotion Economy
A quiet piece about numbness, moving through life on mute, and doing the minimum required to qualify as “alive.”
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — The Day After the Promise
A weekly light — poetry, stories, and reflections from the strange in-between. January arrives pretendingsomething was wiped clean. The calendar flips.The clock keeps its secrets.My body wakes up carryingeverything it had yesterday. The world calls this a beginning.Fresh page.Clean slate.A chance to be betterthan I was allowed to be last year. But nothing packed its…
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — After the Lights Go Out
Christmas has always felt like an ache to me. Not joy. Not sorrow. Something in between. A quiet melancholy that settles once the noise fades.
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — The Measure of Other People
A Thursday Lantern Reflection on the quiet harm of comparison, and the fight to see ourselves without the distortions of someone else’s highlight reel.
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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 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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⛈️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.