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I published my five main NaPo week poems here: This Existence is Our Livelihood Short description: This Existence is Our Livelihood centers on finding the confidence to be authentically yourself ...

v. Born to Live When faced with this: You must live, you must You must go out & be, & shine (Your light does not dim others & it cannot ...

As always, your thread is just lovely this year, Quill. I love how each of these poems progressed and bled into the next one to tell a complete story/journey of ...

How to breathe underwater had me holding my breath the whole time I read it. Then I read it again, and again, and again. Experience yourself as something uncontrollable. Realize ...

Mine references my first (and favorite) NaPo week thread, as well as the one I'm currently working on! I'm quoting what my current signature is here for when I inevitably ...

Oh my goodness rev, your thread has absolutely blown me away. The imagery is so vivid and brutal that it makes me grit my teeth and grin in excitement at ...

iv. Silence=Death Staying quiet would be murder (See: a denial of your self) & how could you do such a thing Refusing yourself would be a rebuttal of others & ...

winter, I am in awe of pull. The unique formatting to appear like a Jenga tower, the dialogue asking for blocks to be pulled in between the character's thoughts, the ...

iii. A Tree Falls in the Forest You collapse in the dark New driver: you keep forgetting to turn the headlights on You keep hearing sounds on the window & ...

I like that so many super advanced scientific tools are just really technical ways to rip things apart Link to original comment Poetry on innovation vs ethics, scientific advancement, how ...

ii. Stage Fright You cannot stand to stand in front anymore (This is why you left the stage: Those bright lights illuminating Each freckle lit up in a singular spotlight ...

i. Light Sensitivity The sun rises & so do you (See: a natural thing, occurring daily) & as it fills the sky, glowing brightly You stretch and shrink and shield ...

I'm done focusing my life " on the lives of others relative to my own " -- I'M MY OWN PERSON and that's OKAY!! —the description of my playlist for ...

b. pre-napo Acclimating to Taste You fear becoming yourself: a person With limited appeal A taste that takes getting used to & you always were a picky eater Maybe that's ...

a. pre-napo You Are All You Have Eventually the realization must overtake you: This existence is all you have & you, yourself Must accept your role in it This existence, ...