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“…through various linguistic tools she seeks to highlight the significance of everyday existence.”
- excerpt from The Poet/Practitioner: A Paradigm for the Profession
the poet’s portal
the poet's portal is a blog subscription that uses poetic thought to explore and expand key concepts such as archetypes, emotions, and definitions. each post invites self-reflection and encourages readers to break free from self-imposed limitations. at its core, the portal is about expanding the concept of self because how we define our world is a reflection of our beliefs, and those beliefs shape our expression.
"i'm bitter over the languages i’ve lost.
knowing my world is filtered through this colonizer lense.
i read that english has a lot of nouns,
makes sense for a civilization obsessed with things.
i'm determined to reshape it, cultivate it as ours."
-excerpt from quantum leaps
upcoming posts
9/13
DEFINITIONS:
curiosity
9/23
ARCHETYPES:
the loner
10/7
DEFINITIONS:
creativity
10/22
EMOTIONS:
shame
11/16
DEFINITIONS:
love
11/28
ILLUSIONS:
restriction
12/12
DEFINITIONS:
trust
12/26
ARCHETYPES:
the trickster
1/9
DEFINITIONS:
beauty
emotion: shame
When shame becomes an internal voice, eventually it becomes hard to decipher the source. This develops into a humiliation ritual, one that is acted on in the mind and/or sought after in the physical. Needing evidence to support a lack of esteem, a reason to perpetuate the thoughts that exist. It becomes a trap of mental self harm, one where the actions now have to support internal beliefs. Shame is a reflection of self, a distortion of presence. Again, guilt and embarrassment can be gateways to shame, tools meant to belittle and manipulate.
Shame is a prison, a cage, an incubator of rejection. It’s separation from the whole, forced isolation.