☀️SUNREI POETRY☀️

I was too river-lipped, they'd say... eroding the rocks and dams that dared to stop these flowing truths that weren't meant to live out...

the world I want to help build is a softer, brighter, & kinder one, and I choose to do that via poetry This poem is inspired by a collage...

being one's true self is an act of courage but not one without challenge I'm "out and proud" online and amongst my closest loved ones,...

more acceptance, less striving for absolute perfection at all times Pine-lined path for miles. I think I'll stay a while and just be,...

self-minimizing and putting myself in harm's way for those who harm me are no longer my specialties Content Note: references to abuse...

there's nothing quite like tasting the light after seemingly eternal winter... Agnes from "Despicable Me" holding a yellow swirl...

hiding from the things that go bump in the night in your mind doesn’t make them any less monster Amorphous shadows hiding beneath creaky...

the title of this poem speaks for itself I often feel younger for my age, and in part, it has to do with my outlook on life, but it also...

they tried to turn me into a misanthrope, and they failed... miserably I wasn’t born a misanthrope. No, this aversion to humanity was a...

a short self-love poem for love day My red blood cells carry oxygen with a care I craved from a mother who carried too many burdens to...

Long-lost lionheart, how do I forward-step when magma’s mere meters away, lava inching closer to my soles by the day? Inner roars and...

self-protection isn't protective when it's a prison... My cocoon was made of moth-wings, but after enough asteroid-hits I mistook for...

a poem about wearing myself down trying to be someone "more palatable" when I should be building myself up by simply being me Chihiro...

a prose piece about shifting our focus away from "doing" to "being" There is no thing (okay, maybe a few) more exacting than simply being...

a call for salaam, shalom, peace! 🇵🇸 hands holding up a dove 10 ounces. Roughly the size of a large fist in the air rising up against...

a poem about shrinking as a means of survival but later discovering that being seen no longer needs to be a threat; it is the key to...