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purpledperceptions · 1 year

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But this is how you know me

But this is how you know me. This softness, this tenderness. This space between smiles, this laughter. This lightness in my chest, where the ribs expand, now holding more than room between heaving sobs. Where this mirror reflects more than darkness at the edges, where four pairs of eyes do not follow each two. This is how you have known me – and it feels a little like insanity. Who is this…

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purpledperceptions · 2 years

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What really did it, was that

My feet squelched the entire way back up the mountain. It was almost amusing, the steady squish, squish, squish, squish against the rain sodden surface. The steep path uphill (or downhill, depending on whichever way you’re facing, I suppose) is painted in tyre stripes of mud tracked up by the owners of the little houses lining the paths. Roads, they’re to be called formally, because they have…

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purpledperceptions · 2 years

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Headaches (and other assorted regrets)

It‘s been a while, hasn’t it. I suppose I needed to vent my spleen, and this old haunt of chronic splenomegaly was the first that sprung to mind. Old habits, and all that jazz. I’m currently beating myself up over having missed an extremely important class today. It had been scheduled over two months ago, I‘d paid through the nose for the sheer chance to have attended it, and there‘s no denying…

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purpledperceptions · 3 years

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I will shrug off any accusations of being mushy onto the snow. 🌝 . . . @mikejdennis5 @savantpoetry @yourheartbeatsstrong @herheartpoetry @poetry.gpc @poetry.in.dark @societyofpoetry . . . . . . . . . . #glassofmead_prompt3 #loveiswar https://www.instagram.com/p/CLKUvcel16s/?igshid=96q56ophfw0a

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purpledperceptions · 3 years

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It often amazes me, the absoluteness used to judge the lives of people whose existence is layers of grey upon grey. Escape is rarely a matter of just walking away. It’s often a slow, hard-wrung road of scraping inch by inch together for yourself, and that too on the days that you don’t lose any further ground. People who choose to dwell in places of hurt rarely suffer from a lack of effort, but rather from the exhaustion that seemingly endless struggles and defeats breed. And that’s the part that’s curiously invisible. Because all anyone asks you is- why don’t you just leave? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . . . . . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . . . . . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . . . . . . . . . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . . . . . . . . . #poetry #packpoetry #poetsofig #poetsofinstagram #poetryporn #poetrycommunity #untwineme #urbanpoets #savantpoetry #globalagepoetry #silverleafpoetry #poem #calliopeslyre #writersofinstagram #poetryisnotdead #doctordiaries #doctors #globalpoetcult #gedichte #weloveglobalpoets #waldeinsamkeit #doctorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #poetsanonymous #poetrysociety #lyrik ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CKtZkHYlfTw/?igshid=13rrmf0yrndkf

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purpledperceptions · 3 years

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purpledperceptions · 3 years

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Don’t eat pickles before sleeping, kids. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJlXLVelHY0/?igshid=w8avyjfdnsfd

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purpledperceptions · 4 years

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The Tiny Cat That Could

Once upon a time, an unusually tiny kitten walked into a yard. My yard.

Few of you are aware of the flag-bearing, card-carrying toxic relationship I have with my father. I’m so quiet about it, it’s hard to spot (cue eye roll). If I ever need a reason to give up humanity altogether, I can just look back to anything he’s done for affirmation. There are few things the man does that even…

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purpledperceptions · 4 years

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Buttered Peas and Elegies

The smell of buttery peas hits me like a sock-full of nostalgia to the face. I’m seven, in Uncle F’s gloomy manor house in Virginia, and I’ve just discovered that salty, buttery peas make you warm from the inside on a cold day. I then proceed to eat a kilo of them.

Last night, I dreamt of cheese. There was cannelloni the size of actual cannons, lying artlessly strewn through what I think was a…

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purpledperceptions · 4 years

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Bon(n) Appetit!

Well, well, well. Look who the carousel threw up. 🙂

Today was the Rosenmontag Karneval in Bonn. Although Karneval is celebrated madly in Germany as a whole (like any legally delineated time frame for public debauchery, drunkenness, dressing up in mad outfits, and drowning yourself in sugary treats would/should be), the North Rhine area takes a special fondness to being as certifiably loony as…

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purpledperceptions · 4 years

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Floodgates

I want to open my mouth

and have only rainbows pour out

with that same breathless quality

with which nightmares tear the ground

Flowing from my ears at night

Wild-maned terrors, champing to bite,

Iron shod hooves tossing restlessly

while my own twisted feet make no sound

except their untangling, in bedsheets strangling

slowly, insidiously, ‘round my neck snaking

Fingers cold as death on my own…

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purpledperceptions · 4 years

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Look at how far you've come.

Look at how far you’ve come.

Dear A,

it’s been a while since we’ve spoken at nay decent length. Sure, we’ve been having our fluff conversations and Band aid-on-stab-wound repair sessions, but the time is definitely nigh that we put some sutures there. As you love to tell your patients, better to heal the right way, the first time around. Have you been taking your advice? Not so much, not so much.

You’ve been keeping busy.…

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purpledperceptions · 5 years

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Day Nine: Rebellion of Many Forms

Some lines need to be said more than one time. For day Nine.

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purpledperceptions · 5 years

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Some Mornings

They fall from the trees like

gold coins, these beams

filtering down

settling like dust with a whisper

on the ground

and the jackdaws voice their protest

outraged, shrilly

quarreling

Somewhere

in this patch of sunlight

there is the warmth

of your arms around me

The softest kiss

a trace of heat

and all the hope,

the undeniable hope,

of every morning

I sit, cross legged

and let the light

set my…

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purpledperceptions · 5 years

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Day 4: Empty Gleis From ship to shore. Day four. 🌿

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purpledperceptions · 5 years

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Day 3: Leviathans dans le ciel

Monsters, even in the skies. That white whale defeats me yet. .

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Day 3 of NaPoWriMo. Oh, we’re doing this! ☀️

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Your Cookie has been traveling. Spring greetings from Bonn, Germany. Who’s in the neighborhood? 🙃

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purpledperceptions · 5 years

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I wasn’t sure if I’d say it out loud. I bargained myself to a whisper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #writing #poets #poetry #poetsofig #poetsofinstagram #poetryporn #poetrycommunity #english #writersofig #writerslife #feelings #bymepoetry #doortooursouls #poetsofindia #healing #calliopeslyre #writersofinstagram #poetryisnotdead #dreams #writerscommunity #wordswithqueens #poemsindia #love #herheartpoetry #globalpoetcult #lovepoems #writersofinstagram #spilledink https://www.instagram.com/p/BturPGFhutv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11ethy03m14rw

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