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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Some days I have to go looking for myself. Thankfully, I’m usually just a tree branch away.

John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The old guard in my town told me that I should move if I don’t like it here. So I immediately took their advice and I started dancing. Now, I dance on the cracked sidewalks, where the weeds don’t ask permission to be flowers.

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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

our breath keeps our hearts from time traveling to the storms behind us or to the unwritten future. stay with me here in the present. there is so much wonder for you to witness. anchor yourself to the unfolding now with every single breath you take.

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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

don’t let anyone tell you that empathy is weakness. having a heart for those less fortunate is a perpetual genesis. it transforms the cold dark universe. it creates new hope. it allows for growth. its sews us together. it’s an unbreakable circle of kindness. empathy is everything we came here for.

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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

An open poem to the Wyoming Legislature that they will probably never read.

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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

(an open poem to closed hearts) when you hate someone else because they are different than you you are unknowingly hating on the very Architect of Creation itself

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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I wished on a falling star on New Year’s Eve that this 2025 is the year you become authentically yourself without a single hint of fear. Explore your heart. Find the beautiful weirdo inside of you and wake them up. This is the year of becoming who you’ve always been meant be.

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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hope tastes just like gingerbread

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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

on my day to give up, please just walk me outside so i can place my hands on a tree so i can feel the hum of creation again my love, on the days we can’t hold onto hope, we’ll at least be able to hold each other

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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I want my skin wrinkling and warping because of wonderment and not worry. As I age, I don’t want to be remembered for how effortlessly I fretted over things I can’t control. I want my legacy to be how I learned to let go of all my dead leaves. Let me grey with a grateful heart.

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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Subscribe to my little Substack. Come for the poetry - stay for the *cake! (*there is no cake) open.substack.com/pub/johnroed...

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John Roedel @johnroedel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Amazon’s AI review recap of my new book has entered the chat. At least I’m not floofy…

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