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Day 23 - celestial truths Old souls in young bodies do not fear death; they know that someday the sun will swallow up the earth and that time has never ...

"Music Haven" is a really lovely poem! Music is such an important part of my life so I enjoyed reading a poem that focuses on that :) The last stanza ...

Ooo your latest poem, Cracks, is really interesting! I love how you set it up, especially with the last line being a repeat of the first but flipped. I can ...

Your last two poems, We All Perish and Friendship, are my favorite so far! We All Perish is a bit dark, but I love the contrast that you have in ...

#25, joy is no virtue, was a super interesting read! I can't remember the last time I actively tried to write a sonnet, so without knowing anything about how they're ...

Day 22 - earth day The first time I saw the ocean was when I was eight, a memory I’d like to forever commemorate. I remember tasting the saltiness in ...

Day 21 - my childhood home These walls never felt so thin and claustrophobic, they never used to be like that. These sheets once felt like home, but now are ...

Day 20 - nonverbal gestures Our love was simple. It looked like the elderly woman at our sacred bus stop quickly fixing her husband’s tie before work and it looked ...

Day 19 - freckled skin and chocolate chips You counted the cracks in my heart just like freckles on my skin; some were bigger than others, others existed that I ...

April 17th - This is the poem that actually inspired the poem I wrote today! I really liked it and felt that it added to the inspiration I was already ...

Day 18 - afternoon rainstorms Today the clouds were heavy and a dark gray, a seemingly immovable force against you, normally an unstoppable object. How wonderful, you thought, it would ...

Day 17 - my parents are not two lovebirds “how did you and dad meet?” i’d ask my mom, my young and growing mind seeking answers to questions that would ...

You're doing great Jay, keep it up! I really like when you wrote this in "part i: about time": "when i sit, think, and try to remember the significance of ...

Day 16 - a wandering mind The lights flickering remind me of my attention span. There one second, gone the next. I wish somebody would replace that old bulb, God ...

Day 15 - halfway point I feel like I’m in a limbo of sorts, somewhere in between being able to breathe and feeling like I’m drowning. Always okay, but never ...