The Real Us

We share real-life stories and #poems about #kindness, self-discovery, #healing, and #courage. Read them (and write for us) at

[The Real Us @TheRealUsLove]

#scars #healing #healingjourney #journey #wisdom #inspirationalquote

[Gus Parera 🇺🇸 @GusParera]

@CityofMiamiFire Here is a list of Miami fire Stations accepting donations. Thank you #BahamasStrong

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

And now, I am
Just a story
You tell people
To explain why
You built those
Walls around you.
It's been years since
I smelled your skin.
Years I've spent
Tearing my own
Walls down.
Years I've spent
Missing you.
You are always
Welcome back.
And I will always
Be sorry.

#poetry

[Todd Rokholm @MyPrompts]

simple words;

a straight blade
through an armor
of ribs,
into the heart's
waiting flesh.

I am small
and lost.

I am sad
and lonely.

there.

hush now.

[Poets House @poetshouse]

In the citrus light of winter, I stole oranges
from your trees; through your white sand, tore
bike tracks ragged as rope burns. In you, I was a primal thing.

Jessica Jacobs
Blue Horse Press

[The Real Us @TheRealUsLove]

...These were the things that helped me grow <3

#poems #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poetryheals #inspirationalpoetry

[Alexandra Meehan @LexMeehan]

Writing poetry seduces my melancholy.

[Alexandra Meehan @LexMeehan]

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
—Amy Winehouse

[Novelicious @noveliciouss]

#Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning.
O'Brien
#amwriting #books
#Art Peter Kemp

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

This #10wordstory is part of a longer story that's been moving through my heart for the past 12 years, breaking it, healing it, teaching it. I regret nothing. I'd go through the fire again, if only to become the woman I am today.

#poetrycommunity #poetry #mpy #vss #micropoetry

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

You don't need permission
To be yourself.
You are already made of stardust
Why not be a star?

#writingcommunity #poems #poetrycommunity #poetry #bardbits #mythoughts #poem #poets #poetryheals #poetryisnotdead #inspirationalpoetry #mpy #vss #micropoetry

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

Who was I fooling,
Telling my heart to quiet its
Beautiful song
So I could march in the
Parade of conformity?
My biggest fool was me.

#writingcommunity #poems #poetrycommunity #poetry #bardbits #mythoughts #poem #poets #wisdom #personalgrowthjourney #saturdaythoughts

[The Real Us @TheRealUsLove]

Read "The Man Who Taught Me About Generosity (A Eulogy)" by @rbeneteau on The Real Us: https://t.co/Wo7XTTHiYM

#inspiringtruestory #inspiration #dailyinspiration #inspire #inspirationalstory #relationships #bethechange

[Ron Lim @ronwritings]

I want to write a lot.
or run a lot.
do something a lot.
be addicted to something.
be consumed by it.
and maybe that’s where
I find myself.

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

I want to sing like the birds sing.
Not worrying about who hears.
Or what they think.

Rumi

[The Real Us @TheRealUsLove]

Do you agree?

#quote #quotes #inspiration #dailyinspiration #inspire #IQRTG #wisdom #lifelessons #motivational

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea

—Emily Dickinson, born #OTD in 1830
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