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Elizabeth Wilder

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https://www.sheofthewild.com/books

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Fiction, Poetry, Suspense

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February 2022

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Elizabeth Wilder writes soul-stirring poetry to help you through life's hard times. She is the author of several poetry collections, including I Promise I Tried, as well as one novel and a guide to writing poetry of your own. In addition to her quirky little family and their too-many pets, Elizabeth is in love with moon-gazing, dancing wild, and drinking too much coffee. ...more

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Do not ration your oxygen

This poem is from my poetry Patreon, where you can read three brand new poems every week before they are published in a book, and it is about all that I am thinking about right now: release, redirection, and rediscovery.

I've been thinking a lot about what I expected my reality to be at this point in my life versus what it is.

Maybe my reality is that I cannot write books right now. Not fiction.

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	Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul by Beth Morey (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Wilder (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Promise I Tried: Poetry for Losing & Finding Yourself 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Balefire: Poetry for the End of the World 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything We Never Knew 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ordinary Miracles: Poems of Magic & Hope 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Start Writing Poetry Today: How to Overcome Fear & Write Poems from the Heart 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Shift (Silo, #2)

by Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)

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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

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There There

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“everything is something to be lost”
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“how could you leave before I knew how much I needed you, before I learned how you kept on breathing through the dark —”
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“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

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“I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.”
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“Only you can decide what breaks you, Cursebreaker. Only you.”
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“I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

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