Kimmy Higginbotham
This Poem Isn't About You
Written March 6, 2020 This Poem Isn't About You By: Kimmy Higginbotham I promise I will never tell you this thing that isn't your...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
When I Take a Wife - a poem 2019
When I Take a Wife By: Kimmy Higginbotham The wife that I'll take will be magic and cunning And known for much more than the fact that...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
Untitled Poem inspired by Mary Oliver 2019
Small helpless creature - my brother by chance Gets swallowed up whole by circumstance. I grieve and I mourn and I dress all in black. My...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
Inter-modal Shifting - Emobodying Envy 2020
"A vacuous hole attempting to fill itself with all... but there is always something missing. Something that someone else has. An...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
My Shamanic Journey
I start in a huge, green meadow - a forest surrounding - one large tree in the middle. White flower petals blowing in the breeze and tall...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 24, 2020
- 1 min
What Helps You Sleep at Night? - A prompt
I sleep best under warm blankets in a cold room. I sleep best with a body next to me. There's a song called "Weightless" that helps when...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
A Quarantine Sex Dream; or This Poem Isn't About You 2
I had a sex dream about you last night. Is that accurate? I dreamt I slept with you. I dreamt I lay with you, That I shared a bed with...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 24, 2020
- 1 min
What is the Work Worth Doing? - A prompt
What is the work worth doing? What is the fat worth chewing? Why is the damn cat mewing? Just ignore her. She just wants attention. But...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 24, 2020
- 1 min
How Much Does it take to Feel Like Yourself Again? - A prompt
How much of what currency will bring back my sense of safety? How much of what currency will revive my sense of self? How much of what...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
An origin story for West Virginia
Once upon a time there was a beautiful mountain. Her raiments were green grass and wildflowers; her hair a tangle of trees. She was...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
Drift Poetry
Inspired by Drift on April 26, 2020 Things I want for our “someday home”... A Magnolia tree. A pink one. Fragrantly sweet. One of the...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
When did you Grow Up? If you did... - a prompt
May 9, 2020 When did you grow up? If you did... My chest grew up long before my hands. Which, as it turns out, was a problem. Body,...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
What would you Fight to Protect - A prompt
May 8, 2020 What would you Fight to Protect? My family My friends My acquaintances My strangers My enemies Any living person Any living...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
What are you Grateful for? - A prompt
May 7, 2020 What are you Grateful for? To be alive in this beautiful world with the ability to fall in love. My strong support system. My...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
What do you Love? - A prompt
May 6, 2020 What do you love? Family first, and hoe. Home is with them, always. West Virginia, of course, my mountain mama who held me at...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
Communing with Nature Part 2
I am truly thankful that Cat assigned us to commune with nature. It has helped restore me in ways I cannot describe in words and now...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
Another thought for Poetry May 5
I fell asleep with my bare back Facing the open window Drinking in the cool moisture, Feeling the caress of the breeze Like a lover's...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
Poem from May 4, 2020
The air sounds like the ocean today. A heavy crashing, distant roar, and rush. And as a misty rain crawls In through my bedroom window To...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
Communing with Nature Part 1
More proof that I'm not who I once was not who I want to be. I dream of gardens and being connected to the Earth on an almost Druidic...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
A Day in the Sun
The sunshine gives me peace of mind And I realize I've never relaxed before I have nowhere to go, nowhere to be And, for once, I'm not...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- Mar 8, 2020
- 2 min
Reflections on "Calm" an ongoing study
Started March 6 2020. Added March 8 2020. Edited March 25, 2020. Edited March 30, 2020 I Calm to me is starry nights, fireside. Crackle....
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- Mar 8, 2020
- 2 min
Wife... Me
Written March 6 2020 Wife... Me By: Kimmy Higginbotham "I'll be a good wife", I say, and I believe it. I have plans, ideas - big ideas. I...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- Mar 8, 2020
- 1 min
What Makes a Family
Written March 4 2020 What Makes a Family By: Kimmy Higginbotham I used to have a window in my bedroom I fell asleep to slatted lines of...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- Mar 8, 2020
- 1 min
Counting starts at 1
Written March 3 2020 Counting Starts at 1 By: Kimmy Higginbotham Positive, Positive, Positive, A day, one day, three years ago We truly...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- Mar 8, 2020
- 1 min
Statements of Action
I give, I take, I want, I reject, I yield, I stand my ground I Give - Feb 26 2020 - feelings from within the mask A grabbing, groping,...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- Mar 8, 2020
- 1 min
This Poem Isn't About You
Written March 6, 2020 This Poem Isn't About You By: Kimmy Higginbotham I promise I will never tell you this thing that isn't your...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- Feb 27, 2020
- 2 min
When I Take a Wife - a poem 2019
When I Take a Wife By: Kimmy Higginbotham The wife that I'll take will be magic and cunning And known for much more than the fact that...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- Feb 27, 2020
- 1 min
Untitled Poem inspired by Mary Oliver 2019
Small helpless creature - my brother by chance Gets swallowed up whole by circumstance. I grieve and I mourn and I dress all in black. My...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- Feb 27, 2020
- 2 min
Inter-modal Shifting - Emobodying Envy 2020
"A vacuous hole attempting to fill itself with all... but there is always something missing. Something that someone else has. An...
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Kimmy Higginbotham
- Feb 3, 2020
- 3 min
My Shamanic Journey
I start in a huge, green meadow - a forest surrounding - one large tree in the middle. White flower petals blowing in the breeze and tall...
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