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jasminesuntrell · 6 days

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No More Fucking Butterflies (19/30)

I have decided the next man I meet who makes me nervous is getting blocked, walked away from- I'll run if I have to. No conversation, no glances, no more whirlwind romances, I'm not giving chances. I'm through.

Who the hell decided butterflies in the tummy was something to romanticize in the first place? For me, I think it's my body trying to tell me to get as far as I can from this demonic creature who will only cause me harm but I kept thinking it's a good thing if his presence can make me stumble over words.

Hell no.

Neutrality is the way to go. The man you're mostly unaware of until he gives you good reasons to be. The one who doesn’t prey on the unbalanced chemical reaction that happens when you lay eyes on him.

And maybe the love story won't be the stuff of an indie romance film but it will be stable and real. It won't give you more material from which to heal. It will provide you with bliss more enduring than the intoxications of fleeting butterflies.

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ourrainyevenings · 10 months

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Description of my chapbook and can be purchased at Bottlecap Press in physical or PDF format.

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ecoamerica · 21 days

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cokepepsiluvregirl-111 · 11 months

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#frida kahlo #women poets #woc poetry

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rottingflowrs · 2 years

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credit : @/impact on Instagram

#melanin #woc #poc #black women #brown skin #brown skin girl #melanin is beautiful #dark skin #poetry #woc artist #woc poetry #woc poet #desi

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ohgigi-iloveu · 11 months

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All my thoughts are stuck in this beautiful head of mine - probably for the best.

#selfiie #tattoos #woc beauty #woc poetry #boho girl #nighttime #photoblog #cape town

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princesatracionera · 1 year

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an original poem by me💓

#poets on tumblr #poetry #short poem #girlblogging #women in poetry #original poem #poems and poetry #women #women writers #woc poetry #woc writers

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mysharona1987 · 6 months

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#Palestine #free gaza #poetry #israel #democrats #republicans #woc #books #human rights #Poems #middle east

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grimvisions · 5 months

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when mitski said “your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me” & when sza said “wish i was the type of girl that you take over to mama” & when lorde said “i’m a little much for everyone”

#i would not wish being a woc in a predominantly white area on my worst enemy #am i unlovable or just insane???#it’s ok i’ve made peace with the fact that i will die alone with 5 cats #and they’ll be the cutest cats ever :3 #mitski #sza #lorde #music #song lyrics #desiblr #south asian #poetry

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chateaucapricorne · 2 months

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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive." - James Baldwin

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jasminesuntrell · 4 months

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En Gratitud

I've been meaning to saunter my way back to this space but I always hesitate- Mostly because I have everything yet nothing I want to say and I'm often afraid of the words my brain amalgamates in haste. But, whoever you are wherever you are whatever you aren't- You are appreciated. The knowing that on any given day an unknown person out there might be reading these poems I write as an act of radical self-love, self-care, healing, resistance, resurrection, both medicine and illness, but mostly in hopes to understand and be understood could be out there understanding and being understood too helps me to feel I have done more than merely exist. For that feeling, I am immensely grateful.