that /poetry guy fights cancer

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Don’t insist the flower doesn’t bloom before the right time. Not even if you beg for it even if you try to open its petals even if you flood it with sunshine. Your impatience pushes you to look for spring when you just need to embrace your winter.

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Lord, I thank You, I glorify You, I exalt You, Forever! Yes, You are Lord, Sovereign, Forever our Protector, You are God, You are King, the Most High Lord. Yes, You always teach us To overcome our own self, To live beautifully in all things, Like the Holy Lord, like You, Christ. Yes, Lord, and we take heed, We remember our vows, To obey You, to live beautifully, In all things like You, Christ. We thank You for all that we receive, For being with us, for supporting us, In all things You are forever Sovereign, Our dear Lord and Master. We thank You, O Lord, For giving us love, peace, gentleness in our speech, You help us overcome in all things, To be like You, to love like You. We thank You that You are God, That through You we overcome our own self, That through You we give You obedience, So that in all things we may sing to You and praise You. We obey and glorify You, You, Lord, we praise and exalt, In all things we thank You, And forever we glorify You for all that we receive!

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I can’t sleep. I wish I could knock on my mom’s door right now! just like I did when I was a kid. And she’d say, “Come on, let’s go sleep in your room together.” She’d gently stroke my hair until I fell asleep and in the morning, I’d wake up to the smell of her tea with cardamom and rosewater. That was all it took to make the world feel beautiful again🥺❤️💛

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Just submitted a claim for @trpplffct Create a poetry sculpture bounty AN ORANGE COCOON PULLED ME TO SAFETY - I’m currently travelling and luckily had some paper in my bag for this bounty. I stopped off in this clearing with the little sculpture I made. It is the end of a poem I wrote in 2023 and felt like it was time to revisit. The spiral like a cocoon is attached to a long grass holding steady as the wind picked up a bit. The spiral and the poem became distorted in the end. This photo and video were the only documentation I took of it. I guess it has completed its task of being here on earth. https://poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1370

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I stepped back from myself a little and looked at myself from a distance. It was as if I were a hollow bubble iridescent when the sunlight hit it, yet truly containing nothing. Nothing calms me. Nothing brings me joy I’ve become like a long walk where my legs just keep moving on their own... I’ve reached a point where I feel ashamed of everything even my dreams the very things that form the colors around my bubble...😔🥀

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I want to build my home with you and make it extraordinary I want to breathe in a home where the geraniums by the window bloom a little deeper from the scent of you I want to fill my home with color Before you my world knew only black and white But now it carries the red of roses, the deep blue of the sky, the quiet blue of the sea, and the green of the forest. I want to build this home with you, brick by brick, breath by breath. I want to build this life with you, until this little world of ours becomes something beautiful I want to build my home with you and make this little world of ours extraordinary. Poet: myself

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The Last Flower There’s a kind of sadness that doesn’t just sit in the chest.. it flows, quietly, through everything. Walking my friend (the woman I have long considered a second mother) through the final goodbye to her husband… it hurts more than I can put into words. Even when the world turns black and white, these flowers still hold the last color of a life that was deeply loved. Rest in peace. May strength find the ones left behind.

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I think the title of my new collection of poems will be titled: the art of failing upwards or how I learned to love worrying about the bomb i.e. how I learned to love my worrisome self

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Lord, we glorify You, For all that we receive, Today we thank You, Now and forever, amen! We thank You, amen, For You give, and we receive, And we never forget what You have said: In all things, to be like Jesus. Yes, to be like You, and thus to glorify You, In all things, for as long as we live, This is how we will praise You, To become like You in all things. To be like You, To love like You, to forgive like You, For this is in Your glory. To be like You, to accept all things. To be like You, always to glorify You, Always to obey You, May this always be my prayer! Thank You for loving us, For being who You are. Yes, I know, I follow You, I give You my life, That You may work on me, That You may shape me this way. To become like You, To be like You, This is what I desire, This is the prayer I offer to You. author: God

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وقتِ رواں دن گزرتا ہے، رات ڈھلتی ہے عمر چپ چاپ ہاتھ ملتی ہے دل کو سمجھایا لاکھ دنیا نے دل کی وحشت کہاں سنبھلتی ہے ایک صورت نگاہ میں رکھ کر زندگی کروٹیں بدلتی ہے عشق وہ آگ ہے کہ سینے میں راکھ بھی ہو تو لو نکلتی ہے کون کس کے لیے ٹھہرتا ہے یہ زمیں ہر قدم بدلتی ہے وقت رکتا نہیں کسی کے لیے بات اتنی ہے، جان جلتی ہے mfa

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Great writing by Joe Triton Schmidt on Substack: https://joetritonschmidt.substack.com/p/france-street-blues-1

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Lord, we glorify You, Forever and ever, amen! We always thank You, We always exalt You! For Your kindness, For Your love in all things, For Your love, For You have given us salvation. But to keep it, We must watch and be alert, yes, We must work, we must do, In all things, speak what is good. May we have obedience, Patience in all things, May we be thankful, Always watchful. And may we never forget That You were on earth, That You became flesh, And You gave us an example. We thank You, we exalt You, We always glorify You, And may we never forget What You did on earth, All that You accomplished, all that You gave. In all things we will be like You, Now and throughout eternity, In all things we will serve You, In all things, through everything, we will exalt You!

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