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Category: The Messenger Project

validated

Today I live and stand in my own story.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, choice, hope, Life, Love, Poetry, recovery

dandan

best friend.
stood up.

forgiveness, friendship, hurt, loss, reconciliation, recovery, redemption

consensual adults

Bravo to those privileged enough to get it perfectly the first go ’round.

brokeback, church, closeted, Homosexuality, married, parents, pastor, regret, therapy

I Need Permission

I wasn’t as brave as you were to face it head on.

brave, church, Gay marriage, hero, Homosexuality, Love, pastor

just baggage

Laughter – just baggage

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, baggage, blog, Poetry, profanity, upbringing

Go Straight

deliverance comes with obedience

bee, gay, hell, hitler youth, Homosexuality, make believe, march, straight

means to an end

trust the poem just to say what it wants.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, creative, destination, hay(na)ku, journey, means to an end, Poetry, process, prompt, trust

closer to poetry

editing is god.
– and good.

edit, editing, learning, Life, Poetry, process, Prose, puzzle, trust

playing around

good for your brain like music.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, capitalization, Poetry, punctuation, spacing

The Messenger Project

A plan was hatched. A true “chicken or the egg?” scenario, if you think about it.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, collaboration, erasure, Poetry

the natural

Mary Oliver is my girl. always my muse.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, mary oliver, Poetry, pure, unassuming

emboldened

about the practice
 of doing.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, Patience, Poetry, Purpose, simplicity

#NaPoWriMo – breast effort

…. done is better than perfect.

beginner, beginnings, imperfect, learning, perfect, Poetry, practice, refine
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