Poems by {S.M.M.}

I just wanted to hop on here to say thank you!

I owe so much to this community and the love my poems received (and still receive!) here. I started writing poetry 10 years ago when I was just 13 and began sharing it on this blog pretty early on. At the time, I was writing to process my feelings and then sharing my work here in the hopes that I wasn’t alone in what I was feeling.

In the last two years I’ve started trying to get my poetry out there, and have so far had them published in two magazines and a book! I know for a fact that if I hadn’t had the years of encouragement and positivity here when sharing my very early work, I never would’ve felt brave enough to take my writing seriously and send it out to journals and competitions.

Sometimes you have to get what you wished for to realise it’s not what you needed

Not everything you want is good for you

You can’t rush healing

Healing in itself is relative and there is no date by which you’re meant to be over something

Not all pain is created equal