The Mirror Forgets By: Amanda Burton

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The World Keeps Moving By: Amanda Burton
Nothing stops when your world does. The sun climbs, the birds sing, the noise carries on. Yet in the spaces between those sounds, there’s a stillness only the grieving can hear. #poetryofgrief #poetry #embracevulnerability #unfiltered #griefpoetry
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Fragmented in the Moment By: Amanda Burton
This poem is for anyone who smiles through the noise, who stays even when their body is screaming. You’re not broken—you’re overwhelmed. Overstimulation isn’t a choice. Neither is the longing to stay. #poetry #mentalhealth #love #real #depression
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The Light Beneath the Grave by: Amanda Burton
Healing isn’t holy—it’s haunting. But even ghosts can find the light. #darkpoetry #poet #poetry #mentalhealthmatters #poetrycommunity
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Decor Steps Everyone Forgets ✨🏡
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A Language Built From Breaking By: Amanda Burton
I’m learning to listen to the ache instead of outrunning it. #poetry #embracevulnerability #mentalhealthawareness #unfiltered
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Mom, But Still Human By: Amanda Burton
Being a mom doesn’t erase the human underneath. Trying counts. Showing up counts. Even on the hard days. Even when you make mistakes. They won’t remember you yelling about a broken tv or grounding them for being disrespectful but they will remember forever that you’re their constant and that they c
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Trench-Walker By: Amanda Burton
Some battles are invisible—but every sunrise I choose to rise anyway. Strength isn’t about being unbroken. It’s about getting back up despite the forces trying to pull you down. #warrior #mentalhealthadvocate #embracevulnerability #emotions #keepgoing
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Not Apologizing for Surviving By: Amanda Burton
I stopped shrinking to fit the room. I stopped apologizing for the ways I’ve survived. This is me—loud, alive, and taking up every inch I’ve earned. #embracevulnerability #takeupspace #mentalhealthawareness #poetry #survivor
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The Smallness By: Amanda Burton
Respect isn’t domination—it’s mutual. #poetrycommunity #poet #respect #unfiltered
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Cycle Breaker By: Amanda Burton
For those stuck in the endless cycle and for those who have broken it…knowing who you are and revealing to that the world with the reality of knowing someone will judge you can be terrifying but living a lie and hiding behind a wall of fake is worse. YOU are valued. YOU are worth the truth. YOU des
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The Return of the Soul by: Amanda Burton
I didn’t rise from the ashes to be soft. I rose to be whole. #poetry #poetrycommunity #mentalhealthawareness #empowerment #healing
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The Becoming by: Amanda Burton
The art of becoming is written in scars and sunlight. Becoming isn’t about perfection. It’s about persistence. #poet #poetry #mentalhealthmatters #poetrycommunity #empowerment
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Weight of Becoming by: Amanda Burton
Becoming isn’t about shrinking to fit the world — it’s about growing into the space you were always meant to take up. #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity #empowerment #mentalhealthawareness
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When silence finally finds its roar. #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity #unfiltered #empowerment
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The Daughters Who Refuse to Bow By: Amanda Burton
For every daughter who refused to bend, refused to dim, refused to disappear—your strength rewrites the story. #poetry #empowerment #womenempowerment #unfiltered #standtogether
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The Static Inside By: Amanda Burton
Inside me, a storm hums in secret, a pulse of fire beneath fragile skin. Thoughts fracture into a thousand whispers, breath catches on invisible edges, and shadows twist where the light should be. #anxietysupport #mentalhealthmatters #poetry #creativewriting #dark
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Burning the Dark By: Amanda Burton
I stopped running from the dark—now I’m the one it has to reckon with. #darknesswithin #poetry #depressionsupport #empowerment #beyourself
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Functioning, But Too Much Anyway By: Amanda Burton
I whispered this one. Maybe because I’ve spent years trying to soften myself for other people. Anyone else ever feel like they’re “too much” for rooms they’re in? #functioningbut #embracevulnerability #unfiltered #mentalhealing #poetry
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Pulse of Me By: Amanda Burton
I rise. I roar. I own every shard of me. #powerfulandunique #poetry #empowerment #mentalhealthmatters
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Om Mani Padme Hum 🙏🙏
Compassion without wisdom may burn too hot— a fire that gives, but forgets to see. Wisdom without compassion may grow too cold— a mirror that reflects, but does not feel. But when they meet, something sacred awakens. Compassion feels the pain. Wisdom knows its cause. Together, they do not
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Across the Miles By: Amanda Burton
Some connections defy time and distance… yet still ache for what could have been. #love #poetry #poet #embracevulnerability #unfiltered
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🔥 For every woman both past and present who rose from silence to song! #poetry #creativewriting #poet #empowerment
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Signed, Stamped, Not Mine. By: Amanda Burton
They said it could never happen here… so why does it feel like it already has? If it doesn’t affect you, you’re lucky. Not right. #unfiltered #womensrights #speak #mybodymyrules #gilead
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When Sunrise Meets Sunset By: Amanda Burton
Even opposites find eternity in a single moment of light. #poetry #love #poet
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The Internet never forgets … 🥴🥴🥴 # #nickiminaj # #cardib
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What You Called Soft By: Amanda Burton
You didn’t love me. You loved how small I made myself for you. This is what “too much” looks like when it finally stops asking permission. #embracevulnerability #unfiltered #relationship #woman #nomore
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Part 1 of my new poetry series “Functioning, But…” More coming soon! #poetrywriter #embracevulnerability #Functioningbut #mentalhealthawareness
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Even in the lonely, even in the dark, someone else feels it too! You’re never alone! #embracevulnerability #alwaysforward #poetry #notalone
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Player Forgets About The Buzzer
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The skincare step everyone forgets…
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Tucked into the hills, where clouds touch the mountains and time forgets to hurry. This peaceful little cottage by the loch is all about the quiet moments and soft light. #artwork #art #watercolor #watercolorpainting #scotland
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Jamin forgets where he is!
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Functioning, But On Trial By: Amanda Burton
Some of us don’t need a courtroom. Our mind already holds the trial. Every word replayed. Every mistake submitted as evidence. Every insecurity cross-examined. And somehow we end up being the prosecutor, the jury, and the one standing guilty. I wrote this for anyone who looks like th
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The golden snitch never forgets its first catcher
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The Smallest Thanks By: Amanda Burton
This season asks us to name what we’re thankful for, but the blessings that matter most aren’t always the ones we can see. For many of us, the holidays feel heavier than we admit — and it’s the quiet, genuine kindness from others that shifts the weight. A gentle word, a moment of grace, a softness
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“(James 1:22-25) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But
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When bro forgets to cancel the trade💀
Imagine losing your best shiny and bro starts singing this melody 💀 #sunstone #kingsrock #metalcoat #dragonscale #sinnohstone #unovastone #gimmighoulcoins #superincubator #raidpass #remoteraidpass
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The Quiet Things by K.Ashley
“I have learned to love the quiet things- the hush of morning light. The way a book holds is breath between pages. the silence after a storm. lt is in these moments I find myself again not in the noise of the world. but in the spaces it forgets to fill.” #animalcrossing #poetry #pottery
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Letter to the Girl I Used to Be By: Amanda Burton
A letter to the girl I used to be—the one who carried storms in silence and still found a way to hope. She held every broken piece without knowing she was building the version of me who stands here now. This poem is my way of reaching back to her, gently, finally telling her she wasn’t fragile… she
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The Moonlit Path to Nowhere
Sometimes we walk paths not to arrive, but to remember who we are. #poetry #poet #storytelling
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Glass-Heart Girl By: Amanda Burton
Her past left pieces all over the floor, but when the light finally reached them, they didn’t look like ruins— they looked like power she grew through pain. #writefromtheheart #poetry #embracevulnerability #heart #empowerment
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Crowned, Anyway By: Amanda Burton
It’s my birthday, and I feel good — but that goodness was fought for. I’ve wrestled the dark quietly and often, and today I choose candles, laughter, and my crown anyway. 👑 #birthday #poetry #embracevulnerability #depression #darkfeminine
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