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Birthing a “Book-Womb”
Noticing and releasing harshness as I self-publish my first poetry book on Gentleness
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I am deeply grateful that my family and I are still safe, healthy, and still able to feel and create joy in 2020. And I’m extra grateful to have deepened my passion for writing through the Medium platform when I started writing more frequently in August this year.
One unexpected gift from writing on Medium is in writing poetry. Whenever I felt too stressed to arrange my thoughts properly in prose, I chose to express myself through simple poems instead. It is so beautiful to occasionally write poems that emerge with so much love and wisdom that didn’t come from the “usual me”.
As I wrote more poetry, I thought about using it as a vehicle to transmit the energy of Gentleness. It felt easier for readers to connect with this energy simply through experiencing each short poem that requires less analytical thinking. The timing was great for people to purchase it as a Christmas gift too!
And so I got to work, collecting all the previous poems I’ve written on Medium, revising each stanza, adding more flow and thought into each one, weaving them all into a story.
