HeyJaredLaurel
Hi, I’m Laurel. A poet drawn to emotion, memory, and imagination. I’ve been writing since childhood — in diaries, in stolen moments, in silence. My poetry lives in the tension between the real and the remembered.
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I Speak for My Sisters (opens the original)
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This poem is a refusal to mistake silence for peace. It is written for every woman whose voice has been diminished, whose dignity has been treated as negotiable, and whose humanity has been overshadowed by entitlement. It is both a lament and a declaration- a reminder that words have the power to confront, memory has the power to preserve, and courage has the power to kindle what previous generations could only shelter. May we never confuse compassion with passivity, nor strength with cruelty.<a
War Stood Before Me (opens the original)
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This piece explores the quiet inheritance passed from one generation to the next. It reflects on the stories that shape us long before we understand their weight, stories of love, longing, regret, and hope that become woven into our identity. What begins as memory slowly unfolds into destiny, revealing how the lives of those before us often prepare us for encounters we never saw coming.At its heart, this poem is about the unseen threads that bind family, desire, and purpose together, reminding u
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