a poem about love’s pain — Younger me: there will be days when love is going to hurt, it’s going to trigger you & remind you of your past It’s going to make you never want relationships again because the way it hurts you will make it feel never worth it. You will think to yourself…

A poem — We are a lilac sunrise with an emphasis on impermanence five seconds too soon and we are dissipating twilight five seconds too late — Apollo’s exhaust fumes but that fragrant moment… when the blossom is ripe we are infinity birthed from starlight Both grave and ground of continuous death and rebirth ouroboroses…

The metaphor of Love’s sacrifice — God — who did you fall in love with that you would create a sky full of stars, an ocean of poetic movement, evergreens that always point back to you? For only a heart ignited with the passion of love could imagine sorbet sunrises, flames of a setting sun, into the veil of…

Endings are just new beginnings — When I was a little girl all I imagined doing was making a difference. I feel like I can hold my head up high knowing that I did. Three years ago, I created a prompt to help people feel seen and heard unaware of where that small seed would take…

Figuring out who I truly am — Finding me — I used to look outside myself to know who I was. I thought in order to change the world, it had to be in a B I G way & it meant that I had to give all of me away. But now I know that even the…

A poem about the waves of realization — Waves. You didn’t just come into my life. You crashed into me. Knocked me off my feet. Took my breath away. And just when I thought I couldn’t feel more alive — You pulled away, never to return again. How do you heal from that? Waves. For the longest time…

A poem about the power of “and” — You said, “Pour me out like a chalice for you will never be more human than the way you are when I touch you, more broken than by the time I am through with you, and more empty by the time I discard you — so save yourself now, before I end…

For the week of July 14th, 2023 — Guest writer, Julee Balko — Written by Julee Balko: The prompt word for Move Me’s Poetry Battle was: WONDER. And I can’t think of a better word to describe how I feel when I read and write poetry every week here with you all. …

For the week of July 7th, 2023 — The prompt word for Move Me’s Poetry Battle was: LUCID and let me tell ya, never have I had more insight and clarity. This week, I witnessed something powerful. On Wednesday evening, Threads launched as a new social media platform. …