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Tag: Poetry

Let’s talk FND

by Claudia on April 21, 2025

Imagine waking up tomorrow morning, and opening your mouth to say good morning to your partner, but not a sound comes out. Or it comes out in a language you’ve… [Continue Reading]

Life

by Claudia on March 16, 2025

None of us are immune; life is tough Even when you lift your face to the sun while waves lap gently around your ankles on a warm sandy shore. Even… [Continue Reading]

A little (big) love story

by Claudia on June 3, 2023June 3, 2023

Once upon a time there was a Welshman who loved to ride bikes, climb mountains and dive in the ocean. Steve had been through a lot; a life of service,… [Continue Reading]

the half empty or half full cup of ‘what ifs’

by Claudia on August 20, 2022

😞 What if tomorrow the sun disappears and everything goes black as black? What if your insides turn on you and slowly take you away? What if you choose wrong… [Continue Reading]

dance this chance

by Claudia on June 17, 2022

what a dance, this chance, these two butterflies floating and exploring tentatively side by side, fluttering in the sunshine between leaves and petals and floating on the breeze where the… [Continue Reading]

that heartless thing insomnia

by Claudia on October 6, 2021

both of them slept on my left, back when. and ever since then, at the end of each day when I flick the switch to turn on the dark, that… [Continue Reading]

Numbers

by Claudia on February 18, 2021

  Today 15 thousand people – and counting – became so hungry they starved and died. Today a thousand people – and counting – simply got sick from unclean water… [Continue Reading]

Sunshine Wine

by Claudia on February 18, 2021

The white-capped hills around me, silver in the sun, were exotic. Romantic even, to my eye. I heard the woolly sheep in the green fields become silent when they stopped… [Continue Reading]

fleeting

by Claudia on February 18, 2021

While the men sauntered home or rode rickety bikes from the maghrib prayers at the mosque around the corner, and on the mainland teenagers rode to a lookout, lit cigarettes… [Continue Reading]

Home

by Claudia on December 15, 2020

what is it about the ocean that fills my lungs and has my back and soothes my eyes and cushions my feet, and lifts my chin and eases my mind… [Continue Reading]

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