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I cry more now in freedom than I ever did in pain.
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#vsspic #rootandripple #poetry
Now he sleeps,
where once he bled.
In dreams,
they rest side by side,
not fallen,
but free.
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A vintage pink car sits parked in front of an old roadside motel. The trunk is open. A person stands in the doorway of one of the motel rooms. Tall trees rise behind the building, with soft morning or late-afternoon sunlight casting lens flares across the scene.
#vsspic #rootandripple #poetry
Some things we carried longer than we needed.
We stopped once, unpacked a little,
rested where we could.
It was never meant to be home.
Not to erase.
Not to hold.
Simply to witness.
What was.
What stayed.
What quietly moved on.
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A photo taken through a darkened window, possibly on a moving train. The sky is heavy and gray, with thick clouds blocking much of the light. In the distance stands a tall metal transmission tower, carrying power lines across the landscape. The scene feels stormy, yet quiet, as though rain is coming.
#vsspic #rootandripple #poetry
The skies grew heavy,
suffocating light from above.
A tower of metal,
unmoved,
delivering light and warmth.
Its purpose unphased
by the world around it.
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#rootandripple #poetry #vsspoem
An illusion of burning.
Of inhaling ash.
Even here, I can love.
Even now, I can breathe.
Even still, I am whole.
Not from delusion,
but from clarity of being.
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#poetry #prompt #writingprompt #vsspoem #rootandripple
I've never done one of these before, but I wanted to create a little space for anyone who feels like sharing, as you have all offered me. Here's your prompt:
Failure consumed me,
but beneath it...
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#rootandripple #poetry #vsspoem #growth
Through clouded sheets,
we dream of futures
and grieve for pasts,
spinning quiet stories of failure
as if stillness meant defeat.
We tend our masks,
oblivious to the garden
already thriving beneath them.
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#rootandripple #poetry #micropoetry #vsspoem
For anyone who was told what they should be, and chose something freer instead.
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You carved my dream
and called it truth,
left only pity
in my chest.
I forged my own,
flew higher than high,
and felt proud
that I had left.
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#rootandripple #poetry #micropoetry #vsspoem
I sat down with my dreams to play.
And watched their whispers fade away.
I tried to grab them, bold and defiant,
But in the end, I caught only silence.
I ache to know what they might’ve said.
But some truths bloom in quiet instead.
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#rootandripple #micropoetry #poetry #vsspoem
Forcing the bloom
tears the petal.
Starving the shadow
shatters the light.
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#rootandripple #poetry #micropoetry #vsspoem
Everybody knows that shadows scream,
but only in rooms we carry inside.
They throw chairs.
They stomp down hallways.
They break the same lamp over and over again,
but nobody flinches.
Nobody looks up.
Because the noise?
It never makes it past the skin
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A person standing with their back to the camera, fingers crossed behind their back in a subtle gesture. The wall in front of them is covered in colorful posters.
#vsspic #poetry #micropoetry #rootandripple #writingprompt
Another promise made,
knowing full-well it couldn't be kept.
The thought of letting someone down,
somehow feels heavier than the fall itself.
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#rootandripple #micropoetry #writingcommunity #softrevolution
I'm not here to fix the world.
Just to love it,
even when it forgets itself.
To soften where I could have hardened.
To share quietly,
not to be followed,
but so someone else might remember too.
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Close-up of aquatic plants in mid-growth, nestled beside driftwood on a sandy substrate. New leaves unfurl upward while older stems soften and bend. A quiet scene of slow, natural development—nothing staged, only witnessed.
#rootandripple #micropoetry #poetry #stillness #slowgrowth
The Forest never asked to be explained.
Only watched.
Only felt.
And maybe that's enough.
To let the roots grow
without needing
to name them.
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#rootandripple #micropoetry #return
They’ve never known the wild.
Born in glass.
Fed by breath.
Still, they graze, hide, hunt.
Not because they were taught,
because they remembered.
And maybe that’s true for us too.
Maybe the wild in us
was never gone.
Just waiting
for the right forest
to return.
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#rootandripple #micropoetry #poetry #emotionalrest
Real medicine doesn’t always come in bottles.
Sometimes it’s a forest someone else grew,
just in time for you to rest beneath it.
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#rootandripple #micropoetry #poetry #awakening #slowliving
I thought awakening would roar.
But it came in silence.
In laughter between takes.
In roots I didn't know were growing.
The Dance didn't begin.
I just finally noticed I was in it.
www.youtube.com/shorts/kBCaS...
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#rootandripple #growth #selfcompassion #micropoetry
There was no mistake.
Only the version of me that wasn’t ready yet.
Even the detour was part of the arrival.
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#rootandripple #micropoetry #shadowwork #healing #poetry
I don't fight the dark anymore.
I sit beside it.
Not to fix.
Not to win.
But to love the parts of me
I once left behind.
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The past is complete.
The future is unwritten.
Both whisper your name, but only the present holds your hand.
You don’t belong to either.
You belong to the moment.
You exist in a breath with no past or future to worry over.
#rootandripple #poetry #presence
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A softly lit aquarium scene with floating red root floaters near the surface. The background is shaded, with visible leaf litter and subtle motion in the water. Gentle, earthy light filters through, capturing the stillness of a balanced, self-sustaining ecosystem.
Two weeks. No food. Some personal panic.
And the forest kept breathing.
Not because I sustained it,
but because I stopped getting in the way.
Maybe life doesn’t depend on us as much as we think.
Maybe we’ve just been afraid to trust what already knows how to grow.
#rootandripple #lettinggo
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Sometimes we think we’re drowning.
But what we’re really doing is remembering how to breathe.
This is a quiet moment beneath the surface.
#RootAndRipple #healing #stillness #selfreflection
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Sometimes we grieve things that never happened.
A life we imagined, a moment that never came.
Here is a reflection on letting go of what we thought might come.
#rootandripple #grief #healing #lettinggo #selfreflection #emotionalhealth
youtube.com/shorts/lPQ1W...
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I used to run from fear.
But this time, I walked beside it.
A story about listening instead of fleeing. About finding breath in the unknown.
This is Walking With Fear, as a friend.
#rootandripple #fear #mindfulness #selfgrowth #storytelling #mentalhealth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_oh...
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I didn’t fight the ice cream.
Didn’t earn it. Didn’t regret it.
My meal was enough. My body was calm.
There was no war to win.
Just peace… and a cone.
#MindfulEating #HealingWithFood #RootAndRipple #WinWithoutWar #SatisfiedNotStuffed
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Sometimes what we think is gone...
is just returning in new form.
"The Illusion of Loss, the Reality of Return."
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Thank you for being here.
#grief #healing #mindfulness #transformation #rootandripple
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Some truths don't arrive by force.
They settle, like roots in still water.
Root and Ripple is my audible journal through a living ecosystem.
A forest in a glass box. A mirror in growth. A practice in presence.
New ripples released twice a week.
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