Kindle Notes & Highlights
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Sun and Moon: Beautifully written. A radiant beacon in the dark abyss especially the darkness after losing someone. The meter and rhythm added a beautiful melody both sad and uplifting. I love the imagery of becoming stars sitting high in the night sky, reuniting with loved ones.
When did flowers dull their colors, Their brilliance lost and gone? When did the painter deep inside us Lose her will to carry on?
Snow: Absolutely brilliant imagery for portraying how as adults we become jaded to the things that once was a marvel to our childhood selves.
Are
Another fantastic piece filled with raw emotion and sharp imagery. JL Willings offers sharp visuals driving to "The Heart" of the matter.
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Marrow: Hauntingly beautiful and expressive of a love that will never die.
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First Dates: I absolutely love this one for its pure honesty of how in this world of social media, trending technology/ fashion, and filters, we've lost the art of truly connecting with our fellow women/men
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Battle Storm: A powerful emotional poem. Great imagery!
safe.
Night Terror: A haunting piece that makes the hair on my neck stand. The panic creeps in until your heart thuds. Very powerful lines.
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Atsila Rising: A beautiful and powerful bardic piece. This story embodies the strength of women to overcome hardships, a great-grandmothers song of a great ancestress who struggled and overcame. Truly masterful!
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Firebird: I love the rythm and the scorching power emulating from this empowering poem.
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Stained Souls: Brilliant! I feel that this is the modern women's anthem. Masterful imagery, brilliant choice of words, provocative, emotive, and strong.
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Beast: JL Willings has laid herself wide open as a book in these pages. The Beast is another raw poem that tugs deep within my stomach with its beautiful images of being vibrant in all colors to try and chase away the beast.
Cloaked feet sunk into water, draped arms reached towards my own. Fate pulled me from the depths and cradled me against his bones.
Death Called On Me Today: I love this line. This entire poem is another hauntingly beautiful piece, yet still very open and raw.
You can love me without fear and trust me without wondering I'm not the type of girl to revel in your stumbling.
Mine: A striking heartfelt love poem.
I am Jess.
One of my favorite poems! "I Am Jess" is a powerful matriarchal piece giving the reader a closer look at JL Willings and the women of her family. This is a masterful and very empowering poem.
