HeyJaredGrowing Through It
poems, essays and writing tips for creatives who are chasing big dreams (and a meaningful life)
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The Sound of Your Absence (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedLast night, I learned you are no longer with us. This morning, I'm writing poetry because it's the only way I know how to greet the grief that's now in the room. Outside, the birds are acting as if it's simply another day. I want to tell them to stop singing, that the world is missing its music. I want to reach for my phone and call you, like I have a million times before, like I wish you would have, like you used to. I know
Read this when you don’t know what to write about (opens the original)
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Meet me in The Garden this August: reflections from a fellow writer (opens the original)
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Paper Birds & Pumpkins (opens the original)
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They say bad things happen in threes, so why does it feel like everyday is another tally mark I can’t erase? My mom is sick with an incurable disease, my dad fell forward in a parking lot becausethe world would not stop spinning, and there is a lump in my left breast—the same as the one I’ve been carrying in my throat ever since headlinesstarted sounding like an obituary. There are lights going out on children,and entire cities caught in a fiery rage, and a white house that does not know it is m
What if you noticed the life you're already living? (opens the original)
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