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  Spring-Cleaning For The Soul
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    Spring-Cleaning For The Soul

    September 20, 2017August 28, 2023
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    I’m surrounded by question marks, in the shape of expensive gifts from you. I’ve discarded the funny, the cheesy, the lighthearted lines like you’ve done our laughs. But what about the Parisian box of songs? La vie en rose may as well be a life of thorns. I don’t like…

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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
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    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
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    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
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    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, 2017December 24, 2025
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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
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    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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  • 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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