Tag: inspirational poem

rose in water

When the Broken Becomes Beautiful [a poem]

Your hands once held the vessel wholeβ€”
smooth with years, unmarked by sorrow,
a simple offering of days.
But it slipped, and in a breath
was scatteredβ€”
pieces lying fragile and sharp
upon the ground of grief.

You gathered them, trembling,
yet could not restore what once had been.
And so the fragments remainedβ€”
not as they were,
but as something waiting to be remade.

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a red rose on the sand

The Becoming of Strength [a poem]

There descends a great hush after the breakingβ€”
when the earth lies colder than the heavens above,
and each breath is weighted with the sorrow of endings.
Behind you rest the shattered relics of what once was,
before you stretches a path draped in shadow,
and all seems surrendered to silence.

Yet even here, within the stillness of desolation,
strength begins its hidden labor.

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black and white minimalist flower art

When the Ashes Begin to Breathe [a poem]

There comes a hush after the burningβ€”
when the air is thick with endings,
and the earth is draped in a garment of gray.
What once was radiant has been unmade,
what once bore form has yielded to dust,
and all seems given over to silence.

Yet even here, in the stillness of surrender,
the hidden labor of renewal begins its quiet work.

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blue petaled flower

When Weight Becomes Wings [a poem]

In the beginning, it was only burdenβ€”
stone laid upon stone,
its shadow descending into the hollow of your shoulders,
pressing the hours into a slow and heavy hush.

You did not summon it,
yet it came, unbidden,
and you, without complaint or flourish,
took it upon your frameβ€”
step by unnumbered step,
through the measureless corridors of days.

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