Morgana

Joined January 2022

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the courier
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here is the poem's full text, though a contrapuntal poem is meant to be formatted in columns, as pictured above. The poem can be read vertically as 2 stand-alone poems, vertically as a complete poem, or horizontally as one complete poem.
By Morganaabout a year ago in Poets
A Hypnotherapist's Struggle to Define Her Work, or, What Even is Hypnotherapy?. Top Story - October 2024.
A little over one year ago, I began training as a hypnotherapist. Now, it's my full-time gig, and I fucking love it. In my runner-up essay for Vocal's #200 Challenge, Vocal Made Me a Poet, one of my resolutions was to write and share about this powerful, anciently rooted, and woefully misunderstood method of change work. I wrote:
By Morganaabout a year ago in Psyche
Summer Love
Summer wept at two o'clock each day evening Sun warmed the world dry it took September to see You were the fog at dusk curling back to clouds
By Morganaabout a year ago in Poets
reclaiming my wildness one sunspot at a time. Top Story - July 2024.
new freckles peek through my breasts' white flesh blossoming like dandelions on this chemical-free lawn (i fired pest control, too)
By Morganaabout a year ago in Poets
realizing idealizing
laid one hundred seventy days dazed bankside gazing at dim clouds and hazy pines rippled on the lake face and not once raised
By Morganaabout a year ago in Poets
Now It’s Still Fresh. Runner-up in Breakup Nonet Challenge .
Someday you’ll be timeworn memories: nostalgia stuffed in black bins, stale holiday decor in my mind’s basement. I’ll retrieve
By Morgana2 years ago in Poets
Too good to be
We were never born to become Gods. To live mortally is to trek fully the range of dual expression; I would have dissolved existence
By Morgana2 years ago in Poets
animus. Top Story - July 2024.
fission me and this disowned half would show you: salmon glide downstream . that every river yields at one easy bend go slow
By Morgana2 years ago in Poets
Vocal Made Me a Poet. Runner-Up in #200 Challenge.
I joined Vocal in desperation. It had been nearly a decade since I had written anything but marketing copy, and I had just baffled myself by first turning down a CMO position at another company, then giving an agonizing three month's notice to my boss, anyway. I couldn't stay miserable in my career anymore, and I ached to create something, anything meaningful to me.
By Morgana2 years ago in Confessions
haunted
this beautiful life lies, haunted sometimes by prophecy a dream told me, once… ready? i will die when i’m thirty-eight—
By Morgana2 years ago in Poets
The Witching Hour
At 3:02 AM I google nihilism (again), you might as well know, because, crises of faith are getting really fucking old. I can't
By Morgana2 years ago in Poets
consumption metta. Runner-Up in Tattoo This Line Challenge. Top Story - December 2023.
at once you emerge from a mother's womb know the cosmic feast is a karmic debt may you be devoured, may you be consumed .
By Morgana2 years ago in Poets