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creatingnikki · 3 years

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notes to self *stop being naïve edition*

1. Learning any skill is a sort of deep meditation. You have to lose yourself in that for a long time. Whether that’s learning a new language fluently like Korean or playing a music instrument like the ukulele or mastering the art of self preservation. You cannot ride on waves of excitement alone. You also have to row through the seas of demotivation and lethargy. There will only be a few good days. The rest you will have to draw out all your discipline and just get down to it.

2. There are many people who want to be a part of your life - for whatever reasons. But just because they want that, doesn’t mean you have to oblige. Even if they are “nice” people. Even if you are in a good place mental health wise. The truth is, you very rarely come across people whose life you want to be a part of and who you feel comfortable and real enough to let be part of your life. And what you want trumps what others want when it comes to giving them space on the stage of your life. Even if they are just a tree in the background or an extra.

3. Have some sense of fear. You can’t go on living life as if nothing and no one can harm you and then be absolutely shocked and shattered when they do. It is so precious that you always see the best in people and that you are so understanding and forgiving. It’s not a bad thing. But it’s also not something you should have to pay for. The presence of fear is what triggers acts of self preservation. And you have known for a while that you have to work on that.

4. See the bad in people too. See their insecurities. See their selfishness. See their rough edges. See their aggressiveness. See their calculativeness. See their shrudeness. See their weakness. It’s only when you see all of them can you understand what their motives and feelings towards you are. You have to stop hyping their good side. You have to stop believing that’s where it ends. You have to stop giving them pep talks when they talk about what they don’t like about themselves. Instead, listen. Listen and register and never forget. Don’t use it against them. Don’t make them feel bad about it. Of course, not. But don’t pretend like that side of them doesn’t exist. It does. And you’re better off knowing it.

5. Nuance and sincerity are not concepts people are even aware of let alone practice! So when you treat them in a way so earnest, they latch on to you, think you’re special and want more of how good and okay you make them feel. But it’s not all of such people out there. There are those who are like you, the ones on your emotional, intellectual and spiritual planes. So it’s time you stop thinking it’s only you and continue letting people drain you out. Find those other ones. And until then, just chill with people. You don’t have to always better them or listen to their sorrows. You can just have a beer and joke about whatever is popular these days. Do that. It’s not all empty and pointless. You need to let your brain relax and your heart be preserved for something more worthwhile before it deep dives.

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writinginnorthnorfolk · 3 years

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My name means gold

At least, that’s what a Korean guy told me, who I met in Amsterdam, when I went to buy Matcha and jasmine tea,joss sticks and a brass frog ashtray, and eat Vietnamese food for my seventeenth birthday,cooked by a friendfrom Paris,who I never saw again. Kim M. Russell, 14th April 2021 My response to NaPoWriMo Day…

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blackinkmess · 3 years

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NaPoWriMo 2021 - Day 14

I long for the darkness intrigued by its many dimensions. The secrets, the sensations, the sounds. I love to feel everything even when it hurts. The mystery, the madness, the majesty. I will always be wandering here, drawn to the danger, called to the adventure.

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peaamlipoetrydoctor · 2 years

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Happy New Year 2022

[[Alt Text - the image is a screengrab from my Instagram account, so it appears in the square 3x3 format that has become such a well-established visual language in mainstream social media. The images are all taken from my daily walks during or shortly after First Lockdown 2020. TL peach-coloured roses. TC the statue of the shepherd plus sheep in Paternoster Square. TR a glimpse towards St Pauls through the Paternoster Square development. CL a sandstone church, Myddleton square, at dusk. CC the trouser legs of the statue of Fenner Brockway, Red Lion Square. CR from the shoreline of the Thames, looking back towards the steps and up to the sky and to the cranes above. BL the bright turquoise painted shop front of Epic Pies, with the image of me taking the photo appearing reflected in the glass door of the shop. BC two young men in smart casual business wear walk in front of a graffiti'd monster, with the Barbican towers in the background. BR inside the Barbican complex this time, two red hot poker flowers in the garden in front of a tower.]

Apologies in advance that this might be quite a dull post for anyone else who comes across it but I haven't yet summarized my year in writing for 2021 and it's finally occurring to me that if I don't, no-one else will... My plan, then, is to write up the summary today and over the next couple of days, I'll put a copy of the poems that are already "out in the world" into the few posts following, for future reference.

So, first up, I have to acknowledge that 2021 was when I completed my doctoral thesis and had the corrections accepted:

Working through climate grief: A first person poetic inquiry.

It's on its way into the British Library ETHOS database and can also be found on my supervisor's website, Dr Steve Marshall / writing.

Turning to poetry, I think I will always have a special heart-leap of joy at the thought of Allegro Poetry, which was the very first poetry journal to publish any of my work - and double bless the editor Sally Long, who took a piece both in March (Lockdown, issue 26) and September (Spring Equinox in Leeds, issue 27).

Next up, I was included by Dissonance Magazine in their month-long special focus on NaPoWriMo writings , April 2021(National Poetry Writing Month).

This was "I Come From" which was one of my early doctoral poems about the shifting consciousness of coming to see myself as within-Nature and from-Nature, not separate-from or superior-to, as is still quite normal, I think, in many Western culture contexts.

NB I see that Dissonance had to go on hiatus in May 2021 due to a personal emergency, and I vm hope that the emergency is loosing its grip and normality is returning...

Also linked to NaPoWriMo, my poem "Rage is the Thing with Wings" was a featured poem in response to one of the daily prompts, chosen towards the end of the month (Day 25) by convener and curator, Maureen Thorsten. A sort-of nonsense poem, but a fun one to write.

In May, Muse Pie Magazine accepted "Small Talk" for Shot Glass, an online journal for short poetry (14 lines or fewer).

In the summer, Wingless Dreamer accepted a villanelle about Midnight, "The Midnight Hush" and (yeay!) it placed as one of the 10 finalists in that competition; I had another piece accepted in the Decembre competition later in the year, "Hope in Mid-Winter", although that one had to content itself with simply being published.

In October, another moment of great gratitude - three poems published in issue 2 of Paddler Press who, to my astonishment and joy, then picked one of these to be one of their Pushcart Nominations for 2021 - "Before Lockdown, I Used to Walk to Work..."

In November, "The Postman's Park" appeared in the 2021 City Lit anthology of creative writing, Between the Lines 2021.

And then, at the end of November, another joy, another first - placed as a finalist in a competition that carried a modest cash prize for all 10 finalists. This is officially the first time I've received ££ for any of my writing. And there's been QUITE a bit of writing over the years.

This was "To My Executors" for the Literary Taxonomy competition. The challenge is to write a new piece linking someone else's first and last lines. Here, the source material was from Katherine Mansfield.

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thebizza · 2 years

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I posted 48,948 times in 2021

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