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  • Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Pop Culture

    Thank You For The Paper Planes

    September 12, 2017September 17, 2023
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    I returned to the poetry circuit last week. Yes, I have been performing here and there but only where I’ve been pulled in. 2017 has hit me with so many things, I’ve needed to stop and regain my breath. I wrote a new piece and read it right off my…

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  • achievement confident free freedom
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Politics & Feminism

    Thank You For The Ghosts

    August 28, 2017September 17, 2023
    2 Comments

    I met people I had ghosted. I was contacted by those who ghosted me. Maybe all ghosts bear gifts.

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  • Body & Sex | Pop Culture

    I Wear: Bold Words Deserve Bold Lips

    August 17, 2017April 14, 2024
    3 Comments

    An I Wear post at long last! After I was liberated from my nude makeup modesty constraints a few years ago, I swung out to the other extreme to reclaim what has always been mine – a love of BOLD, BRIGHT, DRAMATIC, WHO CARES ABOUT THE RULES dressing and makeup.I…

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  • Scoop Marks in the Sand at 'Rocknest'
    Poetry

    Markers

    August 11, 2017September 17, 2023
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    A smile that leaves you wounded, you say
    What about the mark you left inside my mind that
    shades every expression & tints each sparkle?

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  • Green saree zodiac feminist
    Politics & Feminism

    The Zodiac Signs As Feminist Women

    August 11, 2017March 30, 2025
    2 Comments

    What would the feminists of each zodiac sign be like? From Leo divas to Capricorn businesswomen.

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  • City

    A Story That Wrote Me

    August 9, 2017April 2, 2023
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    This has been a year of such drastic changes and shifts that my whole outlook has been the here and now – surviving these. But I am a creature of nostalgia and the past doesn’t impede me. It teaches me, it nurtures me and it gives me fodder for the…

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  • plastic bag texture
    Poetry

    LEAK

    August 5, 2017September 17, 2023
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    In between your precise words
    and your regimented actions
    you spilt me one look
    that drowned it all.

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  • Gears and cogs machinery
    Digital World | WorkSpace

    Why Marketers Need To Consider Marketing Automation

    August 4, 2017April 14, 2024
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    Marketing Automation might conjure up an image of a gigantic machine that addresses all pressing marketing issues. It’s not.

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  • A knotted rope
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Knotted

    August 3, 2017September 17, 2023
    2 Comments

    A poem about being knotted in love –

    “You had me tied up in knots
    turning over your every word
    twisting each smile,
    into shapes of affection”

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  • river on rocks and mountain forest
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    The Nature Of The Current

    August 2, 2017April 2, 2023
    2 Comments

    The nicest thing to happen was that I felt like myself in my own skin. The nature of the current is home.

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  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

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