Words in Bloom Stories and Poems | 🌸 Carolyn Jones 🌸 | Substack

typewriter confessions

A poem - and some illustrated journal entries

Sep 22, 2024 • 🌸 Carolyn Jones 🌸

Memory Has No Respect For Chronology

A longer piece based on a recent poem

1 hr ago • 🌸 Carolyn Jones 🌸

Evidence of Existence

Jun 9 • 🌸 Carolyn Jones 🌸 and Duane Toops

Hope, Like a Sunflower

To you, on your 18th birthday - Keep reaching 🌻

Jun 2 • 🌸 Carolyn Jones 🌸

On Loving as Harbour Rather Than Tide

May 31 • 🌸 Carolyn Jones 🌸

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The Art of Never Arriving

The struggle is real!

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There comes a peculiar point in adulthood where your tolerance for nonsense simply dissolves.

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Love after a lifetime

A meditation on what happens after the fireworks fade; when love stops being performance and becomes something quieter, stranger, and far more enduring.

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The decay of memory

I think some forms of exhaustion have very little to do with sleep.

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The beauty of survival

Some people do not survive beautifully, some survive with their teeth clenched around the word ‘enough’.

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The Loneliness of Useful People

There’s a particular kind of loneliness reserved for the people who spent years making themselves endlessly available.

May 10 • 🌸 Carolyn Jones 🌸

Hitchhiker Heart (Edited - V3)

This week, I’m sharing another updated piece; one of my favourites, perhaps because it understands something I spent years trying not to name.

May 8 • 🌸 Carolyn Jones 🌸

I Don’t Know How to Do Nothing Without Feeling Like I’m Failing

I’m not naturally good at doing nothing.

May 5 • 🌸 Carolyn Jones 🌸