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anxiety, Coping mechanisms, creative writing, creativity, life, mindfulness, spilled ink, spilled thoughts, spilled words, thoughts, writeitout, Writing
My mind is shattered, fractured, broken, scattered.
Crumpled and ground down to fragments of dust, blown in the breeze.
It’s empty and bursting, simultaneously blank and erupting.
It drowns my head, parched and hungry, grasping, clutching.
There are no coherent thoughts, no connection of words.
Just screams and nothing.
Life is draining, it’s taking and paining. I stumble, I reach, I breathe.
Try to pause, try to collect those pieces, try to keep it together.
Try to think, with the scattered pieces, just try…
When there’s nothing else. Use the screaming… and then at least there’s no more nothing.
©️Juliette Turrell, May 2021
Juliette Turrell 
I can fully relate to this: I’ve had days like these as Van Morrison would say; what a way to end the poem:’When there’s nothing else — use the screaming’ !!!
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Indeed! I’ve always been an advocate of #writingitout, pain is never lost on a poet! Although the first time I said that it was emotional pain I was referring too 😅not the growing teen children pain or the constant plantar pain causing my brain warpage 🤣 Life, it’s full of chapters and the tale always twists before the happy ending ☺️
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indeed it does; pain is a valid thing to write about; some made it their poetic vocation : think Sylvia Plath —
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I neglected to ask you what ‘Kintsugi’ means? it sounds Japanese —
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Ah! Well, Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. It takes broken pieces and makes them whole again and more beautiful. ☺️
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it’s a beautiful metaphor for your poem; it enriches it 🙂
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Good to see you writing again 👍
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Thanks, it’s something
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Wow, amazing piece!!
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Thank you 😊
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