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Poet, marketer, lover of birds and bugs. Slow, but steady. She/Her. ✨ I believe in whimsy, nonsense, love, hope, and revelry. Not an expert, just opinionated. #poetry #tech #marketing #ux #userresearch #philosophy #mentalhealth #books #womenintech #fedi22 #mindfulness #nature #ethics #hiking #tattoos #art #coffee #minimalism #selfcare #travel #intersectionalfeminism #ecophilosophy #socialpsychology #digitalnomad

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egb, to philosophy
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"This points to the distinctive nature of philosophical reflection: it is less about observing the shadows that are projected onto the wall of the cave and more about becoming attuned to the background context in which the shadows are situated. To see our cave is to notice the unstated assumptions, conventions and habits that shape our observations and day-to-day interactions with the world."

https://psyche.co/ideas/philosophical-reflection-often-begins-with-a-disruptive-mood

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egb, to poetry
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30/30!! Here's my final poem for NaPoWriMo.

@poetry @writingcommunity #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #poets #poetrylovers #writers #amwriting #writerslift #poems

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egb,
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@poetry @writingcommunity Every time I do this challenge, I learn so much about myself I feel like a whole new person. It’s as much about poems as it is about processing, grieving, accepting, celebrating, resting, learning, questioning, answering, feeling, befriending, and letting go.

egb,
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@poetry @writingcommunity A few things I learned this year:

  1. Some poems are for the eye, others for the ear

  2. It's possible to create new, complete, surprising poems, even when revisiting the same topics and themes over and over

  3. Writing with peers and learning from mentors (both formal and informal) makes a huge difference

egb,
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@poetry @writingcommunity I also noticed I was more drawn to lyricism and expressiveness this year, whereas last year I was more interested in storytelling, fantasy, and surrealism. I don't really have any insight as to why that is, it's just something I noticed. I think it's interesting how one's voice kind of expands and contracts over time.

Anyway, I'm going to need to take a bit of social media break now. This is truly the highlight of my year but it is exhausting!

egb, to poetry
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Played with form again today for my #NaPoWriMo poem.

I'm not 100% sure which version I like better, but I'm leaning toward the one with 2 clean columns — what do you think @poets ?

Can't believe we're already at day 29/30!

#poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #writers #writingcommunity #poets #creativity #art #amwriting #writerslift

Mondays, slow growers, and drama queens Today, my tradescantia groans and rolls out her pot, bargains for effort though she's failed before (in dreams you feel so certain you’re awake) But one crispy leaf does not a dead plant make (even if you curl up, if you suffocate) My tradescantia keeps reaching, creeping, inching along, learning (are you insane right now? or are you just dancing?) How to love and to lead (how to love is to lead, how to lead is to love by example) Her petiole peering through morning fog at blue sky that might ~ burn (from somewhere backstage in your subconscious) Until it’s over, my tradescantia seems to say (dementophobia will have you paying such close attention to your mind) And it’s not over til the final leaf drops (don’t you understand a little more now?)

egb, to poetry
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Playing catch-up today! Today’s prompt was to write a sijo, yesterday’s was to write a sonnet. I’m not really happy with how the sonnet turned out (sonnets in general are one of my least favorite forms), but the sijo form is new to me and I really enjoyed it!

#poetry @poets #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #truecrime #poetsofmastodon #poetrycafe #poetrymonth @writing

Irish goodbye Please don't blame me when I avert my eyes Half-asleep inside melancholy dreams Just a few deep breaths from the exit sign Creeping as I come, trampled as I seem In the leaving there's a certain romance Melody of footsteps undiscovered Echoed in that verse-Ecclesiastes 1:2-but the earth remains forever How needing just dissolves for a SIM card And lonely is mistaken for a life I took the numbers straight, like a coward My labors left to die in my device The joy I've found in self-destruction mode Is no secret—at least, the neighbors know...

egb, to poetry
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Just a short poem for today!

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egb,
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@poets @poetry (it’s also a true story)

egb, to poetry
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Today’s prompt was to answer the Proust Questionnaire. Decided to follow the prompt exactly w/ one-line (reasonably lyrical) answers for each question & minimal editing after the fact. The result could maybe use a bit of shuffling/revising to be considered an actual poem, but I think it flows well & even makes a bit of surprising sense as-is.

http://elizabethburnam.com/2024/04/25/answers-2/

#poetry #proust #questionnaire #questions #answers #poems #poetrylovers @poets

egb, to poetry
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Today's NaPoWriMo poem - off prompt!

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egb, to poetry
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Sometimes I feel like I’m supposed to be embarrassed posting poems with very basic rhymes like this but rhyme is truly what got me into poetry in the first place and it only seems childish if you’ve read too much Dr Seuss and not enough Robert Frost so just let me have this

#NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #poetrylovers #rhyme #mindfulness #poems @poets #amwriting

egb, to Writers
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My response to the NaPoWriMo prompt today!

https://elizabethburnam.com/2024/04/22/1087/

@poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #poets #writers #psychology #politeness #poems #amwriting #NationalPoetryMonth

egb, to poets
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I haven’t been feeling 100% the past few days so I’ve been slacking with writing but I didn’t want to fall behind with NaPoWriMo bc it’s truly the greatest joy in my life so here’s 2 for today!

#nationalpoetrymonth #writingchallenge #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #writerslift @poets #amwriting

swamps, fevers & threatening storms cloud cover brings a cold wind thru the zipper and I can still almost hear the chanting crowd of your heartbeat beneath my ear in our troubles I can give you no consolationswamps, fevers & threatening storms cloud cover brings a cold wind thru the zipper and I can still almost hear the chanting crowd of your heartbeat beneath my ear in our troubles I can give you no consolation

egb, to poetry
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Just a short poem for today (off-prompt). Whew, what an exhausting week!

#napowrimo #poetry #seattle #trees #compassion #poems @poets #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poets

egb, to Writers
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I really enjoyed the style I tried yesterday (with spacial elements, to be read in multiple directions), so I did that again today and paired it with yesterday's NaPo prompt of naming the poem after a song.

Does anyone happen to know if there's a name for this style of poetry, with lots of spacial elements? Would appreciate it if you could let me know, I'd love to do more research on it.

@poets #writers #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #writerslift #napowrimo

egb, to poetry
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Today’s prompt was to write a poem that starts with lots of concrete sensory details and then ends with something abstract, after “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” by James Wright — it ended up being a super fun exercise in noticing!

#poetry @poets #writers #poetrylovers #LiteraryCommunity #poems #spring #seattle

egb, to science
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Today I stumbled upon the phrase "Eppur si muove" ("and yet it moves"), tenuously attributed to Galileo after being forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the Sun to avoid being punished by the church.

The impact and rhythm of the phrase really inspired me, so I wrote a poem about it.

I absolutely adore this one!

@poets #poetrylovers #galileo #poetrycommunity #science #NationalPoetryMonth #writerslift #poem #religion #astronomy #quotes

egb, to writing
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I’m not quite done with it yet but “Several short sentences about writing” by Verlyn Klinkenborg is already one of the best books about writing I’ve ever read.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #writing #books #BookLovers #writers @writing #verlynklinkenborg #bookrecommendations #reading

egb,
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@bookstodon @writing (one of those books where every few pages you’ll find an idea that’s so simple and true and soul-rattling to hear it perfectly articulated that you have to just put it down and take a walk to decompress)

egb, to poetry
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Today's Poetry Unbound newsletter was about bumping into friends: "The unexpected encounter — that is, I think, what writing can be, when we allow it to be."

It made me think about all the people I've briefly connected with on my travels, how sometimes you make eye contact with a complete stranger and feel certain you've met them, known them, loved them before.

Took that idea and ran with it today — really happy with this poem!

#poetry #writers #reincarnation @poets #nationalpoetrymonth

egb,
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@poets This is the aforementioned newsletter, for anyone interested: https://poetryunbound.substack.com/

egb, to poetry
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Sometimes when I get , I think it’s bc I’m trying too hard to write a pretty poem that cheers people up & makes the world seem bright & beautiful & worth suffering through the Human Condition™.

This has several lines I jotted down over the past week & then ignored bc I didn’t want to write something messy. Today I remembered it’s ok to be messy sometimes! So I just wrote what I needed to write, & I feel much better now.

https://elizabethburnam.com/2024/04/12/an-ugly-poem

egb, to poetry
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Couldn't let the solar eclipse go by today without writing a zodiac poem.

This one was so much fun to write!

https://elizabethburnam.com/2024/04/08/how-todays-solar-eclipse-will-affect-your-zodiac-sign/

#poetry #horoscope #solareclipse #solareclipse24 #poems #nationalpoetrymonth #napowrimo @poets

egb, to poetry
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Today's National Poetry Month prompt was to write a postcard-style "wish you were here" poem, so I wrote a letter to a friend who died last August.

https://elizabethburnam.com/2024/04/07/parking-in-the-city/

#poetry #poetrycommunity #napowrimo #napowrimo2024 #poets @poetry #NationalPoetryMonth

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