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every time i ever said i want to die By Andrea Gibson A difficult life is not less worth living than a gentle one. Joy is simply easier to carry than sorrow. And your heart could lift a city from how long you've spent holding what's been nearly impossible to hold. #Poetry 💙📚👀

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

Nowhere I wish to stay crooked, bent; for there I would be dishonest, untrue. I want my conscience to be true before you; want to describe myself like a picture I observed for a long time, one close up, like a new word I learned and embraced, like the everday jug, - Rilke #Poetry 💙📚👀

I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough to truly consecrate the hour.

I am much too small in this world, yet not small enough

to be to you just object and thing, dark and smart.

I want my free will and want it accompanying the path which leads to action; and want during times that beg questions, where something is up, to be among those in the know, or else be alone.

I want to mirror your image to its fullest perfection, never be blind or too old to uphold your weighty wavering reflection. I want to unfold.

Nowhere I wish to stay crooked, bent; for there I would be dishonest, untrue. I want my conscience to be true before you; want to describe myself like a picture I observed for a long time, one close up, like a new word I learned and embraced, like the everday jug, like my mother's face, like a ship that carried me along through the deadliest storm.

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

🧶 Happy customer and all!! 🥰 The cat socks didn't work out for the intended recipient. I was making it for a man's feet and I missed asking the diagonal heel measurements. But they said they want to gift it to a friend whose feet size is one size smaller.

A pair of handknitted off white socks with pink flowers in the middle on a person's feet

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

AN OCTOPUS HAS THREE WHOLE HEARTS and sometimes I lie awake thinking about all that lub-dubbing on the ocean floor and no one to hear it. What kind of god gives a cephalopod three but a human only one? I want more thumps. I want more time. I want to waste my love on everything #Poetry 💙📚👀

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

It's the season of these beauties! I grab them fast whenever they are available because the season is so short. These are the only apples I like. 🥰

A bunch of green and red coloured apples - these are called Kashmiri Ambri apples that are rarely available

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🧶 Sometimes when I make things, I have no expectation of anybody else loving or adopting them. But I have been proven wrong about this one so many times. It is one of my best sellers. This one is for a baby. So embroidered eyes. #amigurumi #crochetsky

A hand holding a crocheted doll of an owl in blue and light blue folour

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Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life we have refused again and again until now. Until now - David Whyte #Poetry 💙📚👀

Enough...

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here.

This opening to the life we have refused again and again until now. Until now

-David Whyte

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

You are tired, (I think) Of the always puzzle of living and doing; And so am I. Come with me, then, And we'll leave it far and far away-- (Only you and I, understand!) You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; - E.E.Cummings #Poetry 💙📚👀

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

🧶These two are traveling. I was a bit bummed about nobody buying my ladybug charm and that got resolved with this order. 🥰🌺 #crochetsky #amigurumi #bsnm

Two crocheted charms - one is a pink chubby dino charm and the other one is a ladybug shaped like a heart

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

Make something wondrous. I tell you no matter what you have done to your one life, you wake one day in the ripe air of September and you see the light beneath a door in autumn and you let it come, the fear behind the other fears, and you get to have a different, different childhood #Poetry 💙📚👀

Note Found in Van Gogh's Left Breast Pocket

I am going into the sunflowers now. Finally, finally, finally, I get to be a wild thing I do not not love. At last I get to smell the farthest river, to love something beyond the weathered door.

Brother, I am done now, but you are not. Stay awake. Make something wondrous. I tell you no matter what you have done to your one life, you wake one day in the ripe air of September and you see the light beneath a door in autumn and you let it come, the fear behind the other fears, and you get to have a different, different childhood, and the fences of your own wild heart break open, and dreamer you don't need to keep the dead safe inside your body anymore.

-Joseph Fasano

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Desperate times need desperate measures! Made this for instagram and got a couple of orders and a lot of appreciation. Since all of my most favourite people are here, I thought of sharing this here. I think in the age of AI people need proof that it is indeed human😬 #bsnm ko-fi.com/chembarathi/...

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. - RAYMOND CARVER #Poetry 💙📚👀

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During the long middle: conjugating a rivet mastering tango training the cat to stay off the table preserving a single moment longer than this one continuing to wake whatever has happened the day before and the penmanships love practices inside the body. - Jane Hirshfield #Poetry 💙📚👀

A Person Protests to Fate

Jane Hirshfield

A person protests to fate:

"The things you have caused me most to want are those that furthest elude me."

Fate nods.

Fate is sympathetic.

To tie the shoes, button a shirt, are triumphs for only the very young, the very old.

During the long middle:

conjugating a rivet

mastering tango

training the cat to stay off the table preserving a single moment longer than this one continuing to wake whatever has happened the day before

and the penmanships love practices inside the body.

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

I WISH I COULD SAY I FOUND POETRY but it found me washed up on the back porch in winter. Bone tired. Even the deer had enough of the cold. It let itself inside. Grabbed me by the waist. Took me to the water. Had me collect each piece of my voice like fragments of sea glass buried in #Poetry 💙📚👀

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

And some things have the nerve to be getting started, clusters of tomatoes, stands of late lilies-optimism of the great stalks-imperial gold and silver: but why start anything so close to the end? Tomatoes that will never ripen, lilies winter will kill, that won't come back in spring. #Poetry 💙📚👀

"Vespers (End of August)" by Louise Glück

End of August. Heat like a tent over John's garden. And some things have the nerve to be getting started, clusters of tomatoes, stands of late lilies-optimism of the great stalks-imperial gold and silver: but why start anything so close to the end? Tomatoes that will never ripen, lilies winter will kill, that won't come back in spring. Or are you thinking I spend too much time looking ahead, like an old woman wearing sweaters in summer; are you saying I can flourish, having no hope of enduring? Blaze of the red cheek, glory of the open throat, white, spotted with crimson.

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

🧶 I seriously cannot blame anyone who doesn't want to wear this one. I am scared of even touching it. #knitsky

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What can I say that I have not said before? So I'll say it again. The leaf has a song in it. Stone is the face of patience. Inside the river there is an unfinishable story and you are somewhere in it and it will never end until all ends. - Mary Oliver #Poetry 💙📚👀

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Just as the birds above our heads circling are singing, knowing that, in what lies before them, ... They have wings and voices are making choices are using what they have. They are aware that, on long journeys, each bears the other, whirring, stirring love occuring -James Baldwin #Poetry 💙📚👀

BY JAMES BALDWIN

In a strange house, a strange bed in a strange town, a very strange me is waiting for you.

Just as the birds above our heads circling are singing, knowing that, in what lies before them, the always unknown passage, wind, water, air, the failing light the failing night the blinding sun they must get the journey done. Listen.

They have wings and voices are making choices are using what they have. They are aware that, on long journeys, each bears the other, whirring, stirring love occuring

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do not stand By my grave, and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep- I am the thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glints in snow I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle, autumn rain. - Clare Herner #Poetry 💙📚👀

Kansas native Clare Harner (1909-1977) first published "Immortality" in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy[1] and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue:

Do not stand By my grave, and weep.

I am not there,

I do not sleep-

I am the thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glints in snow I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle, autumn rain. As you awake with morning's hush, I am the swift, up-flinging rush Of quiet birds in circling flight, I am the day transcending night.

Do not stand By my grave, and cry-

I am not there,

I did not die.

- Clare Harner, The Gypsy, December 1934

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Small talk is not for me. .... Give me words shaped by oceans, by valleys, by the salt of what it costs to be human. Paint the sky with your words; let your whole body smile. Show up in your holiday shimmer, ... but also your grit, your honest, trembling truth. - Kaylin Weir #Poetry 💙📚👀

Small talk is not for me.

Give me big talk, deep talk, sun, moon, and stars talk.

Tell me what finds you at 3 a.m. when your ghosts come asking questions. Tell me what gets you up anyway, the flicker you follow, the dream you still refuse to set down.

Give me words shaped by oceans, by valleys, by the salt of what it costs to be human.

Paint the sky with your words; let your whole body smile. Show up in your holiday shimmer, your garlands, your glow, all sparkle and shine, but also your grit, your honest, trembling truth.

Come exactly as you are. Just, please, leave your small talk at the door. Life is too short for anything less than real.

Kaylin Weir

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unborn ones, take nothing for granted. Not nectar, not thirst. May your lives be uneclipsed, your failures be passing. May you have your portions of beauty, of grief, in a garden whose plants and birds I cannot imagine. - Jane Hirshfield #Poetry 💙📚👀

I speak with the future. by Jane Hirshfield

We sit on our skeletons' bones. We hear with our skeletons' bones. We speak of beauty by moving our jaws and our teeth.

The original meaning of Paradise: a place, a walled garden. Our lives, our stories, this hour inside one. A staircase from Piranesi. A hummingbird drinking.

Outside it, vanishing species and rivers. Outside it, Nanjing, Ninevah, Dresden.

Outside it, Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar, Kyiv. Here.

The world starts and ends, starts, ends, ends again, restarts.

A kalpa is brief, and wall-less.

Unborn ones, take nothing for granted.

Not nectar, not thirst.

May your lives be uneclipsed, your failures be passing.

May you have your portions of beauty, of grief, in a garden whose plants and birds I cannot imagine.

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did you know there will be poppies again this year? It's true. ... In the end, isn't this all that's required of you? To drink in what you love, to concentrate it in the crucible of your body, and, finally, to bloom. - James A Pearson #Poetry 💙📚👀

$ALL THAT'S REQUIRED OF YOU Did you know there will be poppies again this year? It's true. I've seen their muted green fractals stockpiling sunlight, distilling it down to its purest essence before igniting into slow motion fireworks. In the end, isn't this all that's required of you? To drink in what you love, to concentrate it in the crucible of your body, and, finally, to bloom.$

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

The joke being: I left my country so that I may study my country in a vast, cold country that gives money to the men who are the very reason I left my country. - Hazem Fahmy #Poetry 💙📚👀

Transnational Humor

Hazem Fahmy

The joke being: I left my country

so that I may study my country

in a vast, cold country

that gives money to the men who are the very reason I left my country.

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

Socks 23 of 2026 - Valmue Socks Making this for the second time and used the same color as before!😁 #knitsky 🧶🧦 If anybody is interested, it is listed here ko-fi.com/s/78172de8ff #bsnm #shopsmall

A pair of handknitted socks in pink with bright pink color on my feet

A close up view of handknitted socks with lace design on a sock blockers

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Just lying on the couch and being happy. Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head. Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it has so much to do in the world. - William Stafford #Poetry 💙📚👀

Any Morning William Stafford

Just lying on the couch and being happy. Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head. Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it has so much to do in the world.

People who might judge are mostly asleep; they can't monitor you all the time, and sometimes they forget. When dawn flows over the hedge you can get up and act busy.

Little corners like this, pieces of Heaven left lying around, can be picked up and saved. People won't even see that you have them, they are so light and easy to hide.

Later in the day you can act like the others. You can shake your head. You can frown.

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

🧶🌺 Forgot for a little while that blocking makes me sick. But the night reminded me that all is not well. Also, making the same thing again reminded me that how i have made so much progress as a knitter. 🥰 Here's the link if you want to have this beauty ko-fi.com/s/883f5beb89 #knitsky #bsnm

A handknitted lace Scarf with all over leaf motif in neon green

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When everyone had gone I sat in the library With the small silent tree, She and I alone. How softly she shone! ... Love distant, love detached And strangely without weight, Was with me in the night When everyone had gone And the garland of pure light Stayed on,stayed on -May Sarton #Poetry 💙📚👀

"Christmas Light" by May Sarton

When everyone had gone I sat in the library With the small silent tree, She and I alone. How softly she shone!

And for the first time then For the first time this year, I felt reborn again, I knew love's presence near.

Love distant, love detached And strangely without weight, Was with me in the night When everyone had gone And the garland of pure light Stayed on, stayed on.

"Christmas Light" by May Sarton. Text as published in Collected Poems 1930-1993 (W. W. Norton, 1993).

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🧶🧦Socks 22 of 2026 - Some sunshine stripes I am a fan of yellow heels 😁 My basic vanilla recipe with Deep Shadow Heel #knitsky #bsnm #nightmarket

A pair of handknitted socks with blue stripes and yellow heels and toe

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

I bleed into the soil, yet all these flowers offer in return is the bite of thorns dragging across my skin, their tangled roots strangling the work I buried. Yet when they finally open, I look at the raised scars ... I touch them with joy, knowing no devotion spent is ever wasted #Poetry 💙📚👀

Unrequited By Sachi

I trench through frozen dirt and scorching heat, carving deep channels to lay the irrigation pipes, hauling water to ensure every stem survives. I bleed into the soil, yet all these flowers offer in return is the bite of thorns dragging across my skin, their tangled roots strangling the work I buried. Yet when they finally open, I look at the raised scars on my palms without regret. I touch them with joy, knowing no devotion spent is ever wasted And You, like the flower, wearing petals, I nearly died to grow, never once asking whose blood watered your roots I cheer for you with joy For I know no love spent is ever wasted

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🧶🧦 Socks 21 of 2026 - Basic Ribbed Socks by @kateatherley.bsky.social I love how snug the fit is. Used a self striping yarn with a solid to make it more unique. 😎 #knitsky #bsnm #nightmarket

A pair of handknitted socks with stripes on sock blockers

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

You need not die today. Stay here-through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring. - Gwendolyn Brooks #Poetry 💙📚👀

To the Young Who Want to Die

Sit down. Inhale. Exhale.

The gun will wait. The lake will wait.

The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait:

will wait a week: will wait through April.

You do not have to die this certain day.

Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is

just down the street; is most obliging neighbor;

can meet you any moment.

You need not die today.

Stay here-through pout or pain or peskyness.

Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow.

Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

In this immeasurable darkness, be the power that rounds your senses in their magic ring, the sense of their mysterious encounter. And if the earthly no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth: I'm flowing. To the flashing water say: I am. - Rilke #Poetry 💙📚👀

Silent friend of many distances, feel

by Rainer Maria Rilke

English version by Stephen Mitchell

Original Language German

Silent friend of many distances, feel how your breath enlarges all of space. Let your presence ring out like a bell into the night. What feeds upon your face

grows mighty from the nourishment thus offered. Move through transformation, out and in. What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine.

In this immeasurable darkness, be the power that rounds your senses in their magic ring, the sense of their mysterious encounter.

And if the earthly no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth: I'm flowing. To the flashing water say: I am.

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

What can poets do? They can write stars all over the sky while astronomers sleep. They can write roses all over the garden while May sleeps. ..... They can write hope all over the lingering time, while people sleep. - Szilágyi Domokos #Poetry 💙📚👀

WHAT CAN POETS DO?

What can poets do?

They can write stars all over the sky while astronomers sleep.

They can write roses all over the garden while May sleeps.

They can write sunshine all over the beach while sunshine sleeps.

Oh, they can umpteen times get round the dawdlers! They can write hope all over the lingering time, while people sleep.

Szilágyi Domokos

Translated by N. Ullrich Katalin

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

🧶 #knitsky I have started the decreases on this one. The green looks a bit darker in this one, but it is more of a neon green. I have adjusted price on this one. if anybody is interested, this is the link ko-fi.com/s/883f5beb89 #bsnm #nightmarket

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may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you .... and may you in your innocence sail through this to that - Lucille Clifton #Poetry 💙📚👀

blessing the boats BY LUCILLE CLIFTON

(at St. Mary's)

may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

I haven't casted on any new socks as I am working on a leaflette request. I couldn't let go of my original leaflette, so decided to make a new one. The most terrifying part is the blocking. I don't know if I have the health for that now. But doing this only for survival. 🧶 #knitsky

A green scarf with leaf motif on person's head

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Socks 20 of 2026 - Simply Sporty Shorties by This handmade Life. This one has ankle support with slip stitches, so it hugs that curve perfectly. Since I don't walk in socks, I am unable to comment on that part. 😬There are 3 more textures available in the same pattern. #knitsky 🧦🧶

A pair of handknitted Shorty socks in blue color with some texture on the foot

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Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness #Poetry 💙📚👀

Kindness

Naomi Shihab Nye, 1952

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

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Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. ... Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. - Alice Walker #Poetry 💙📚👀

Be Nobody's Darling by Alice Walker

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools.

Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said.

But be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.

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Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear in the ancient faith: what we need is here. And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye, clear. What we need is here. - Wendell Berry #Poetry 💙📚👀

WHAT WE NEED IS HERE

Wendell Berry

Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear in the ancient faith: what we need is here. And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye, clear. What we need is here.

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Fear not the pain. Let its weight fall back into the earth; for heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas. The trees you planted in childhood have grown too heavy. You cannot bring them along. Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold. - Rilke #Poetry 💙📚👀

Poem: You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing

by Rainer Maria Rilke

trans. by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

Part One, Sonnet IV

You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing that is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks as it divides and rejoins behind you. Blessed ones, whole ones, you where the heart begins: You are the bow that shoots the arrows and you are the target. Fear not the pain. Let its weight fall back into the earth; for heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas. The trees you planted in childhood have grown too heavy. You cannot bring them along.

Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

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All of my pain is a spider I've learned not to crush with the heel of my shoe . . . I ask questions about its life, its purpose as I walk careful out to the garden and rest it down on the earth. My pain-how happy it is to leave me whenever I treat it kind. - Andrea Gibson #Poetry 💙📚👀

Spider by Andrea Gibson

All of my pain is a spider I've learned not to crush with the heel of my shoe

but to guide with a page of my journal into an empty glass.

I ask questions about its life, its purpose as I walk careful

out to the garden and rest it down on the earth.

My pain-how happy it is to leave me whenever I treat it kind.

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Adding sunshine to my upside down world. I think I am the only one who takes photos in this style. 😂 #knitsky 🧶🧦

A foot perched up against the ceiling wearing a handknitted socks in yellow

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In a pre-minced world, where everyone searches for meaning in mediocrity, where we're too quick to dismiss the quiet scrape of a knife, ....... please bother with an existence that is slow-simmered, sticky-fingered, full of the big flavors and small inconveniences - Elise Powers #Poetry 💙📚👀

SMALL INCONVENIENCES

Anthony Bourdain once said

if you're too lazy to peel garlic,

you don't deserve to eat it, which I take to mean:

In a pre-minced world, where everyone searches for meaning in mediocrity, where we're too quick to dismiss the quiet scrape of a knife, the hiss of cloves in hot butter, a sliver of time golden at the edges, that make up a life.

please bother with an existence

that is slow-simmered, sticky-fingered,

full of the big flavors

and small inconveniences

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I am offering this poem to you, since I have nothing else to give. Keep it like a warm coat when winter comes to cover you, or like a pair of thick socks the cold cannot bite through, I love you, -BY JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA #Poetry 💙📚👀

I Am Offering this Poem

BY JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA

I am offering this poem to you, since I have nothing else to give. Keep it like a warm coat when winter comes to cover you, or like a pair of thick socks the cold cannot bite through,

I love you,

I have nothing else to give you, so it is a pot full of yellow corn to warm your belly in winter, it is a scarf for your head, to wear over your hair, to tie up around your face,

I love you,

Keep it, treasure this as you would if you were lost, needing direction, in the wilderness life becomes when mature; and in the corner of your drawer, tucked away like a cabin or hogan in dense trees, come knocking, and I will answer, give you directions, and let you warm yourself by this fire, rest by this fire, and make you feel safe

I love you,

It's all I have to give, and all anyone needs to live, and to go on living inside, when the world outside no longer cares if you live or die; remember,

I love you.

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Can you touch, My tears, with your hands? I didn't know that songs were this beautiful, Whereas words were this insufficient Before I had this trouble. There is a place, I know; It is possible to say everything; I am pretty close, I can feel; I can't tell. - Orhan Veli Kanik #Poetry 💙📚👀

If I cry, can you hear my voice, In my lines;

My tears, with your hands?

Can you touch, I didn't know that songs were this beautiful, Whereas words were this insufficient Before I had this trouble.

There is a place, I know; It is possible to say everything; I am pretty close, I can feel; I can't tell.

Orhan Veli Kanik

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It's been two years of officially selling my handmade things. I might have crossed 100 orders I think. We will never know because my book keeping is just like that. 😂 Also, missed so many of the wonderful reviews I have received.

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🧶🧦 Socks 19 of 2026 - It was finished a long time ago, but taking photos is hard.😬 I have listed it in my stores(both for India and International)Please do check if you are interested. #knitsky #bsnm #shopsmall ko-fi.com/s/6deb114d0f

A pair of handknitted socks with Sunflower motif on my feet

A pair of handknitted socks with Sunflower motif

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I want a word that means okay and not okay, more than that: a word that means devastated and stunned with joy. I want the word that says I feel it all all at once. The heart is not like a songbird singing only one note at a time,more like a Tuvan throat singer -Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer #Poetry 💙📚👀

For When People Ask

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

I want a word that means okay and not okay, more than that: a word that means devastated and stunned with joy.

I want the word that says I feel it all all at once.

The heart is not like a songbird singing only one note at a time, more like a Tuvan throat singer

able to sing both a drone and simultaneously two or three harmonics high above it-a sound, the Tuvans say, that gives the impression of wind swirling among rocks.

The heart understands swirl, how the churning of opposite feelings weaves through us like an insistent breeze leads us wordlessly deeper into ourselves, blesses us with paradox.

so we might walk more openly into this world so rife with devastation, this world so ripe with joy.

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I lay myself down on the welcoming ground, the earth's spine becoming mine. .... I take refuge in the quiet, and let my burdens go, one by one, until the earth and I both float in the same vast and holy silence. - Danna Faulds #Poetry 💙📚👀

Release

I lay myself down on the welcoming ground, the earth's spine becoming mine.

Peace seeps into heavy limbs and slows my heartbeat to the pace of nature.

I take refuge in the quiet, and let my burdens go, one by one, until the earth and I both float in the same vast and holy silence.

~~ Danna Faulds ~~

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