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Erin Stinson's avatar

I hope you’re having a gentle start to the new year, poetry pals. <3

I began my alternate resolutions as a list and immediately went rogue. Would love your feedback as I’d really like to polish this one up.

How To Survive 2025

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Stand in more moonbeams. Notice how much light exists in the dark. If you cannot see it, watch the sky as it melts away to reveal the dawn. It always does. Count on it. Drink in the sunrise you waited for, even if you have to skim away foggy layers to get to the good stuff. Rejoice. You have been brought through another inky voyage. And now: rise. Put on stretchier pants so you can leap freely into the day and discover where you are headed. Because today is a worthy venture, even for a Chicken Little. If the dome over your head falls, take heart, it takes with it every shadow too. Open those eyes of yours, let them slurp up every refracted ray of hope. Dance in your labour as one who won’t relent in seeing everything, one day, made bright and new. Become a moonbeam in someone else’s night.

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Angela Joy's avatar

I shared mine as note as don’t think I can work out the ‘strikethrough’ feature as a comment:

https://substack.com/@angedisbury/note/c-85391007?r=2qii2&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

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