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Tag: self

Posted on November 28, 2025November 20, 2025

Stay Afloat

be light and able
true to self
in the ever changing current

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Posted on November 11, 2024November 3, 2024

Dissolving Into The Next Dimension

in the final days intensified
more precise somehow
while leaving

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Posted on April 16, 2024April 8, 2024

A Mirror Of Self

mapping the roots
the branches
shadow

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Posted on March 28, 2024March 24, 2024

Green Refuge In A Houseplant

petals or leaves
self or shadow
beauty is beauty

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Posted on July 19, 2023July 3, 2023

Lupin Guidance

start small
grow
into your own depth

and be
whatever color
is right for you

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Posted on September 25, 2022September 20, 2022

The Three Of Me

my reflection
myself, my shadow
like yesterday, today, tomorrow

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Posted on March 6, 2020February 29, 2020

Birch Bark Mushroom


decomposition
a transition of
sustenance to self

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Posted on September 15, 2019September 15, 2019

One of Many


the shadow reveals
another definition
of self

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Posted on August 26, 2019August 24, 2019

Bones and Softness


fully
inhabited self
contradiction consummated

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Posted on July 26, 2019July 21, 2019

The Same And Different


claiming self
notwithstanding
similarity

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Posted on March 10, 2019March 6, 2019

No Longer A Stranger


in nature found
a reacquaintance
with self

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Posted on February 10, 2019February 9, 2019

You and You Again


a second
beauty made
by your shadow

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Posted on December 29, 2018December 26, 2018

Myself and I


in sunlight
I stroll
with my shadow

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Posted on October 8, 2018October 5, 2018

Essence


the center holds
so many
reverberations of self

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Posted on June 30, 2018June 26, 2018

All In


peony blooms
with her
whole self

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Posted on June 23, 2017June 16, 2017

Red Edge


boundary marking
the meeting place
of self and other

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Posted on December 21, 2016December 18, 2016

To Thine Own Self

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each inclined
toward truth in self
such freedoms in the field

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Posted on October 4, 2016October 2, 2016

Shadow Bloom

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backdrop of self
the play of light and shadow
a double bloom

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Posted on July 7, 2015July 6, 2015

Complete

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nothing more was needed
a gathering of self
the bouquet of a single bloom

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Posted on August 9, 2014August 3, 2014

Celebration

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flowering
without a flower
succulent’s celebration of self

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Posted on June 9, 2013June 9, 2013

Familiar Stranger

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A goose glides around the pond
keeping company with its reflection.

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