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WildAlaskaBibliophile

Valentines | Ted Kooser

#Valentinecardswap cards went out today! 📮💌 @thebookhippie

merelybookish Pretty! 4h

KadaGul @WildAlaskaBibliophile, I guess we got the same Memo 📝 🤣. I mailed mine out today 4h

kspenmoll So pretty! 4h

TheBookHippie WOWIE!!!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 3h

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LiseWorks

Valentines | Ted Kooser

#ValentineCardSwap are ready to go. @TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie Yay!!!!! 3d

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shortsarahrose

An American Sunrise | Joy Harjo

Probably my last #AuldLangSpine book this month (though others are on my TBR for later). This collection is proving to be beautiful, comforting, and timely all at the same time.

Enjoying a dirty chai latter and my usual egg and cheese on a cheddar chive biscuit before going over to care for my neighbor‘s cats.

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GatheringBooks

The Hurting Kind | Ada Limon

#PoetryMatters Day 7: #Voracious

TheSpineView

dabbe 🖤🤍🩶 4w

TheSpineView 🤩🤩🤩 4w

lil1inblue 🩵🐳🩵 4w

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BarbaraJean

The Hurting Kind | Ada Limon

“I like to call things as they are. Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn‘t know then that it wasn‘t even love that I was interested in, but my own suffering. I thought suffering kept things interesting. How funny that I called it love and the whole time it was pain.“

—from “Calling Things What They Are“

BarbaraJean Full poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/162174/calling-things-what-they-are

This is today's poem from my poetry advent calendar—paired with a mug of vanilla chai from my tea advent calendar. 2mo

Caryl I‘ve been reading Ada Limón‘s poetry this year. I love her! This is one of my favorites from her collection

The Hurting Kind

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BarbaraJean @Caryl She has been on my list to read for a while! I've read a few of her poems in other places (anthologies, etc.), but I need to prioritize reading one of her collections! 2mo

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