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Skipping Rope to the Story of my Life
Happy Poetry Wednesday!! Here’s this week’s poem, as promised, it matches the theme of the month (Women’s History Month) and the first phase: growing up as a girl! I hope you like this simple verses (they are dear to me!)
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Beautiful girls (Women’s History Month celebration)
When I was a toddler my mother watched me stand in front of a mirror and repeat, over and over again, that I was beautiful. She decided on that day, she would start telling me I was also smart, to build up my confidence. But no one ever saw me as smart, I was always…
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Healing Through Writing
I’m not really sure how to start this post, I wish it could be something as simple as “write what you feel” and be done with the pain, but it’s not. After I came back to Brazil from my short days in Germany, I wrote a novel telling the world everything that had happened…
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The Snake, the Prince and the Aftershock
Bitter Cocoa Butter Kisses is made primarily out of three characters: a lovely narrator, her Prince Charming and the evil Witch- I mean, Snake. It’s a cautionary tale of why you should never put three Aries so close to each other. It goes like one would expect, at first; girl moves in with aunt, falls…
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Little Black Girl
“Once upon a time there was a little girl with a big black afro. She was the oldest out of four siblings, and lived happily with her mother and father in a typically untypical Christian home. This little girl could have never imagined when she tied her bed sheets around her waist to play with…
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Diary of a Madwoman – Feb 9th, 2022
São Paulo, Brazil I feel weird, like something shifted very quickly and I wasn’t expecting it. I couldn’t sleep last night for stupid reasons, and now I find myself not wanting to sleep again. I wish I could go back to before today and live forever on February 8th, not because it was a particularly…
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Bitter Cocoa Butter Kisses & and my experience writing it
In November 2020 I decided to try something new. I’ve been obsessing over this poem “An Open Letter to My Depression” by Tonia Ingram ever since I saw it when I was seventeen or so, that’s how I found Button Poetry. Back then I thought I was completely incapable of writing poetry, I knew almost…
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Alice’s little healthy habits
This post will be a little different; I want to list a few habits that help me get through difficult days. I want to tell you, dear reader, all of my feel-good secrets with links to apps, videos, a few movies that always make me reflect about my actions, past and future, and made…
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The Golden Rule
Last week I wrote about how I learned to respect myself, this week I wanted to talk about how I learn to love myself, since those two are so closely related, but first I need to explain how these two, although very similar, are actually quite distinct. When we talk about respect there are many…
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The Road to Self-Respect
A baby is born knowing how to ask for their mother’s milk; they cry, no one needs to teach them that, it’s called instinct. However, we are not born knowing how to respect ourselves, as many other behaviors, we must learn it from our parents, family members and caretakers in general, and some do.…