Remember.
The empty arms of the parents who were left to wonder
The echo of language lost to time
Everything that every child must have felt when taken, and held in fear

Remember 🧡
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#everychildmatters #orangeshirtday #remember #nationaldayfortruthandreconciliation #truthandreconciliation

I've been having a bit of trouble writing recently, between being busy and this 'WTF' time we're all in, so please enjoy these non-poems in the meantime.
Stay strong out there
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#writing #writinglove #writersblock #gunviolence #childrenarenotcollateral #epsteinfiles #wherearethefiles #staystrong

A snippet from 'Words', on why I love writing, why I love stories and words in general. They can mean something, or everything, to someone, even when reader and writer never meet
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#writing #readinglove #reading📖 #thepowerofwords #words #thepowerofstorytelling #books #youarenotalone

Take your time
Do what's right for you
Enjoy it 🪻
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#slowdown #live #livefully #dontcompare #poem #poetry #lifeisbeautiful #enjoylife

Pride month 🏳️‍🌈
I hope it's a month of pride, a month of joy, a month of love
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#pride🌈 #pridemonth #humanrights #loveislove

We will lift those
They try to cut down

Push forward while
They try to pull

Us backward into
Another dark age

The yoke of change
Will not be heavy

Because we
Are stronger together
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#staystrong #strongertogether #humanrights #nokings #keepgoing

For my mom (from a previous Mother's Day gift 🩷)
For my little one ❤️

Happy Mother's Day ❤️💐❤️ For those celebrating, loving, missing, and struggling ❤️🩷❤️🩷
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#happymothersday #mothersday #poem #poems #love #poetry #writing #writinglife

They remind us
Though things
Seem dark,
A new hope
Will dawn
So long as we
Remember

May the force be with you, always
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#starwarsday #may4th #maythe4thbewithyou #maytheforcebewithyou #rebel #rebelagainsttyranny #love #persevere #staystrong #anewhope #jedi

Apathy cannot
Be an option
When they are
Dismantling democracy and
Hijacking human rights.

Stay aware, Find your voice, Do what you can
❤️
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#staystrong #youarepowerful #youareloved #youarenotalone #findyourvoice #standupforwhatsright

So I was on vacation and not paying attention to academic library things for most of this week, but today my colleague informed me that ERIC will essentially shut down (no money, no staff, no maintenance) this week, and I'm just at a loss. 1/5

It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books.

It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.

www.chron.com/politics/art...

Never forget that empathy
Makes us human, 
Makes us better humans.

⛅❤️
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#poems #poetry #stayhuman #takecareofeachother #empathy #humanrights #weareallhuman #weareallconnected

🌱⛅❤️

Remember
There are always stormy skies
Rain clouds and downpours,
But within you,
Always,
Are the
Green shoots of tomorrow's promise
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#keepgoing #youarenotalone #poem #poetry

Not much better than cozy book time with a cozy cat 📖❤️

Enjoy the little moments
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#cozycat #books #readingtime #readmorebooks #catcuddles

Just thinking of those who need it right now
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#sticktogether #staystrong #youarenotalone #youarestrong #strongtogether

And it will always endure. Remember that in the days to come ❤️
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#love #lovewins #staystrong