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Kimberly Vanderhorst

@kymburlee.bsky.social

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AuDHD author of poetry, prose, and magic. Thinks you’re lovely and wants to tell you so. Book in link. 📖 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 she/her/hers https://linktr.ee/kimberlyvanderhorst

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · Mar 10

I am made fragile
by the beauty of the stars
by their sharp edges
and fierce burning
a glass heart cracking
beneath the weight
of the sky

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you so much. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 17h

she lives
in the land
of the still waters
where the sky kneels
to press kisses against
the face of the earth
birthing a new
horizon

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much. 🥰

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 1d

oh, love
do not seize this day
open your hands—invite her
into the tender realm
of your holding

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. ☺️

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 2d

she is
the path
through the deep, dark wood
the one that carries you homeward
when you’ve forgotten how
to be anything but lost

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 2d

her breath
bruises the air
in hues of plum
and azure aching

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 3d

she wakes to a world
of shades and shadows

a consequence
of light

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you. 🥰

There’s so much potential magic in vessels, for good or ill. The holding of things. ❤️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 3d

she is
an unfit container
for all they want her to hold

she has
shaped herself
into this flat aspect

a table
when all they want
is a bowl

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 4d

she forges folds
into her paper heart
crafting crisp creases
with fingers aching
to crumple

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, lovely. 🥹

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 5d

☺️❤️🫶

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 5d

it’s a strange thing
to fall in love
with a poem

to yearn
after stanzas
and s y l l a b l e s

to smile as a simile
to hold a metaphor
like a dire breath

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 6d

🫂❤️❤️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, lovely. 🥰

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you. 🥰

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much. 🥰

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 6d

stay with me, love
oh stay, in this momentary now

every breath
a brief bookmark
in a story we can’t
bear to close

#poetry

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