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Winter
It's cold out
it's snowing
falling slowly
steadily
reassuringly
it brings a sense of calm
the world has begun the process of renewing;
once the snow melts
it will be spring
life will return
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What I want
My favorite season has begun
stark white against the grayish brown of stick season
filling in the gaps between colorful fall and crisp winter
well, fall and winter are both crisp
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Yay snow!!!
SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW
ecstatic
excited
ready for winter
eating it from the sky
feeling your socks get soggy and wet and cold as you reach out your chilly arms
it's snow
I'm ready for it
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Judgement
The fear
well, more like terror
and self-consciousness
and discomfort
that comes with thinking that someone is looking at you
their eyes on you
it's truly horrible
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The rain
The rain scares me
intimidates me
loud and imposing and looming
often arriving with thunder
lightning
sometimes power outages
The rain comforts me
soft drizzles rinsing out the hardships
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Safe space
My virtual home
where I can make my words dance and no one can change the choreography
where I can be loved by other people like me
where I can realize that I'm not as alone in the world as I originally thought
Loves
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She cares
She cares
It’s like she felt the pain
In my heart
And understood it
All at once
She listens as
The words fall out of my mouth
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The True Price of Apathy and Nonchalance
TikTok’s “nonchalance” trend is taking over social media, and teens have adopted the word in the past year as the viral idea has been spreading in popularity since 2024. Nonchalant people project a low-effort presence, and they don’t talk much.
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Watching
We watch snow fall like
Watching deer lie like
Watching leaves change like
Watching birds fly like
Watching waves crash like
Watching stars shine
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That First Snow Feeling
the first snow
always elicits a sense
of wonder
in me
a feeling that
everything is new again
and that the world
is being reborn
entering a new phase
in its annual cycle
of growth
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Size-11 EB Garamond
My words don't come
in anything other
than my voice, and
my voice doesn't come
in size-12 Times New Roman;
It comes in butterfly wings and
cluttered poems and ideas that
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magnolias in may
For the longest time
I have thought magnolias were overrated,
But maybe I had thought that because I had never seen them
Now, they are my favorite flowers