All this time I knew I needed some really good therapy and I found it —in poetry.
JEN HOLLY
JEN HOLLY
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Jen Holly42 quotes“All this time I knew I needed some really good therapy and I found it —in poetry.”
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Friendships exist in the fluctuations between acceptance and rejection.
Jen HollyJen Holly I want to be loved so I try to be you then I realize what I see in you is in the mirror looking back at me.
Jen HollyJen Holly I remind myself what I desire in another is myself undiscovered.
Jen HollyJen Holly Release the things that no longer serve you like the petals of a flower. It will seed your life with new growth and you will bloom again.
Jen HollyJen Holly I am both mud and lotus but, my love you only see the mud.
Jen HollyJen Holly Our lives are now changed forced anew we start again it’s all we can do.
Jen HollyJen Holly Through poems, I speak the language of my soul and the emotions of my body onto paper.
Jen HollyJen Holly Being an empath is a gift – at the same time, you also carry the weight of the world.
Jen HollyJen Holly My love you are, magic in the mountains moonlight on the meadow mantras at midnight, and molecules of my heart.
Jen HollyJen Holly The fabric of your life is a beautiful tapestry of contrast.
Jen HollyJen Holly Finding my way back to myself one day at a time.
Jen HollyJen Holly How can you be so unconditional when I speak of my dreams but yet so conditional in your love for me.
Jen HollyJen Holly Harmony soothes us in the abyss when our mind untangles chaos.
Jen HollyJen Holly Even my tears fall for you.
Jen HollyJen Holly How do I find my way back to myself? I’ve been away for so long.
Jen HollyJen Holly There came that day in mid-July I never saw it coming I don’t know why house empty and you gone you imprinted my heart with that Leonard Cohen song.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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