poems

🪷Enlightenment is to healing

Enlightenment is to healing what flowers are to blooms-- same vibrance under different names, like air in different rooms-- and just like flowers, both…

Apr 1 • Anna Eplin

🪷Mind-fog Message

soothing my anxiety when my mind feels foggy

Mar 31 • Anna Eplin

🪷The Voice in Your Mind

If the voice in your mind is strict and unkind, that's not a voice of wisdom. It's a scared, hurt child alone in the wild who needs help and compassion.

Mar 27 • Anna Eplin

🪷To Build a Bridge

People who hold an opposite view politically from yours aren't evil, of course.

Mar 25 • Anna Eplin

🪷 You don't scold a daffodil

You don’t scold a daffodil for not blooming on command. It will open when it's ready: this you understand-- and yet you scold a child for not jumping to…

Mar 24 • Anna Eplin

🪷 You're Doing Great

You feel like a mess and a screw-up, I know, but listen: what you are is real. Real people have complex feelings and needs, and real life is a messy…

Mar 23 • Anna Eplin

🪷People Beyond Your Group

reflections following an encounter with extreme prejudice

Mar 20 • Anna Eplin

🪷To question all that you believe

a note to my younger self--and anyone else who needs to hear it

Mar 17 • Anna Eplin

🪷 What Is Yours to Bear

It's not just what you think

Mar 16 • Anna Eplin

🪷 Uncertainty Lets Truth Steer

Explorative musings

Mar 12 • Anna Eplin

🪷 Push Your Boundaries

A litany for women and other high-achievers

Mar 10 • Anna Eplin

🪷 The True Queen

an autobiographical story-sonnet

Mar 7 • Anna Eplin

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