Non-Fiction Prose Seeking Friendly Advice
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Non-poetic writing including diary extracts, journal entries, letters, essays and art
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
28th Mar 2025 1:30am
28th Mar 2025 1:30am
No Longer Afraid To Be Me
Due to religious trauma, this has been complicated.
But now, I'm free.
No more church.
No more pretending to be a commercial version to avoid seeming sinful.
Shadow work has taught me to embrace it all.
Dark side and all.
It will never be wrong to be me again.
But now, I'm free.
No more church.
No more pretending to be a commercial version to avoid seeming sinful.
Shadow work has taught me to embrace it all.
Dark side and all.
It will never be wrong to be me again.
#PersonalGrowth
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
27th Mar 2025 6:10pm
27th Mar 2025 6:10pm
Lack of Women Friends
Spent much of my morning looking at Instagram, seeing other influencers and their brands and of course, comparing their bodies to each other and to my own. That no longer comes from a place of shame anymore. But pure curiosity.
I thought of an influencer that I haven't thought of in a while. Her name is Alyssa Lynch. She was featured in the lyric video Closer by Chainsmokers many years ago. If there was a person who would make the perfect role for Diana Rose, my character, it would be her. Tan skin, dark chocolate hair, mesmerizing eyes, skinny figure.
Just makes me...
I thought of an influencer that I haven't thought of in a while. Her name is Alyssa Lynch. She was featured in the lyric video Closer by Chainsmokers many years ago. If there was a person who would make the perfect role for Diana Rose, my character, it would be her. Tan skin, dark chocolate hair, mesmerizing eyes, skinny figure.
Just makes me...
#friendship
#women
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Poetryman
Poem Published
27th Mar 2025 5:39pm
27th Mar 2025 5:39pm
If anyone cares
I have my email posted in my profile, but I will post it here too al9ng with my youtube page. Feel free to say hello or listen to my poems.
Thanks jj Poetryman.
It has been a great pleasure to have shared my poems with all of you poets here on DUP for the past 14 years. It saddens me not only to lose that opportunity but also to read yours. And to know no longer share special friendships across the miles, like Jade Pandora who we lost to illness. One of the great friendships of my life, we had many hours long phone conversations before she passed. Now I will no longer be...
Thanks jj Poetryman.
It has been a great pleasure to have shared my poems with all of you poets here on DUP for the past 14 years. It saddens me not only to lose that opportunity but also to read yours. And to know no longer share special friendships across the miles, like Jade Pandora who we lost to illness. One of the great friendships of my life, we had many hours long phone conversations before she passed. Now I will no longer be...
#friendship
#LifeAsAWriter
#love
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
27th Mar 2025 2:02am
27th Mar 2025 2:02am
Chronic Fatigue
On top of trying to have a healthy lifestyle, I also have chronic fatigue.
It's a condition that exercise can worsen the symptoms. Many people with chronic fatigue are perfectionists and have had trauma. It's like the brain is so exhausted from having to survive such a harsh environment that the brain shuts down.
I need more sleep than the average person. I have to sleep during the day, and this is not just due to my medication. It's due to the fact that I've always been this way since I was a kid. Always had to sleep and nap and everything else.
It doesn't...
It's a condition that exercise can worsen the symptoms. Many people with chronic fatigue are perfectionists and have had trauma. It's like the brain is so exhausted from having to survive such a harsh environment that the brain shuts down.
I need more sleep than the average person. I have to sleep during the day, and this is not just due to my medication. It's due to the fact that I've always been this way since I was a kid. Always had to sleep and nap and everything else.
It doesn't...
#illness
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
27th Mar 2025 1:40am
27th Mar 2025 1:40am
Staying Healthy While Managing My Perfectionism
I haven't talked about this in a while. Honestly, it's always in the back of my mind.
As someone like me who's not going to live as long as someone without trauma, mental health issues, and so on, I'm honestly obsessed with my health. I have an orthorexia type brain. Can't say anything about anorexia because I don't starve myself at all yet I do have an obsession with thinness.
Naturally, when I eat a piece of cake (when I never do otherwise) or brownies at times or french toast, I feel that pang of guilt and shame. And it is intense.
I was bullied by a fat...
As someone like me who's not going to live as long as someone without trauma, mental health issues, and so on, I'm honestly obsessed with my health. I have an orthorexia type brain. Can't say anything about anorexia because I don't starve myself at all yet I do have an obsession with thinness.
Naturally, when I eat a piece of cake (when I never do otherwise) or brownies at times or french toast, I feel that pang of guilt and shame. And it is intense.
I was bullied by a fat...
#EatingDisorder
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
25th Mar 2025 10:40pm
25th Mar 2025 10:40pm
Lazy People Doing More For The Environment
Funny comment I saw on that one Office clip about the character who says if he got a million dollars, he'd gladly do nothing. I think that's how many people feel when working in an office. They know they're working until they're nearly die. They want the escape button.
There was a comment in this thread, I think, that said the lazy people are doing more for the world than the motivated people. And one person asked why. And another answered with this (I'm paraphrasing): "Think about it. The motivated people are tearing down entire ecosystems to build shopping malls, and the...
There was a comment in this thread, I think, that said the lazy people are doing more for the world than the motivated people. And one person asked why. And another answered with this (I'm paraphrasing): "Think about it. The motivated people are tearing down entire ecosystems to build shopping malls, and the...
#responsibility
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
25th Mar 2025 10:23pm
25th Mar 2025 10:23pm
Moderate
"Moderate is an ideological for people who are against radical or extreme political and religious views. A moderate is seen as someone having a general view of things instead of an extreme one. In American politics, a moderate is someone who has a centre position on the left–right political spectrum."
According to this definition, I would be considered moderate.
Was thinking about this earlier on my walk this afternoon. I remember reading in my government college class several years ago, the differences between Republicans and Democrats in what they believe....
According to this definition, I would be considered moderate.
Was thinking about this earlier on my walk this afternoon. I remember reading in my government college class several years ago, the differences between Republicans and Democrats in what they believe....
#politics
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
25th Mar 2025 2:25am
25th Mar 2025 2:25am
Depressed Mind Vs Schizophrenic One
Gonna post something like this on Instagram when I actually find my phone my sister lost. Will be quite funny.
Depressed brain: I don't wanna get up and do anything.
Schizophrenic brain: Let's buy a mask at Party City and drive around like a madman wearing it.
Whew. Schizoaffective disorder is the best of both worlds. Depressive bipolar brain plus schizophrenia.
I'm gonna forever relate to all the crazy characters hahahaha.
Depressed brain: I don't wanna get up and do anything.
Schizophrenic brain: Let's buy a mask at Party City and drive around like a madman wearing it.
Whew. Schizoaffective disorder is the best of both worlds. Depressive bipolar brain plus schizophrenia.
I'm gonna forever relate to all the crazy characters hahahaha.
#MentalHealth
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
23rd Mar 2025 4:20am
23rd Mar 2025 4:20am
My Room
My room is purple, just like how Diana describes it in my story, Free. There isn't much to it. No posters on the walls. White dressers, white desk, white nightstand that hasn't been next to my bed in years.
Nowadays, the sheet on my bed has Sonic The Hedgehog on it. And Knuckles and Tails. I have a red pillow case I never gave back to Mike. And a few stuffed animals: Sleeping Mew, Mew Awake, Mewtwo, and Meowth. And a few other random ones. I've thrown a lot of my stuffed animals from the past in 2017 away. Bad memories maybe.
Mostly clean room minus the dust. Not much...
Nowadays, the sheet on my bed has Sonic The Hedgehog on it. And Knuckles and Tails. I have a red pillow case I never gave back to Mike. And a few stuffed animals: Sleeping Mew, Mew Awake, Mewtwo, and Meowth. And a few other random ones. I've thrown a lot of my stuffed animals from the past in 2017 away. Bad memories maybe.
Mostly clean room minus the dust. Not much...
#SelfReflection
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
23rd Mar 2025 3:44am
23rd Mar 2025 3:44am
Memory I Might Include In Memoir
I remember I used to talk with this guy I met on Okcupid. I think I picked him up from his house in some neighborhood perhaps in Magnolia. But I'm not sure. Like many others I have forgotten, I don't remember his name at all.
But I remember he told me this story of a schizophrenia woman he knew who was taking advantage of someone else. It didn't necessarily make me feel better about my own schizophrenic problems. But I'm glad he talked about it anyway.
But this is my dilemma. I don't blame anyone for leaving me if I exhibit toxic behaviors, and I don't blame myself for...
But I remember he told me this story of a schizophrenia woman he knew who was taking advantage of someone else. It didn't necessarily make me feel better about my own schizophrenic problems. But I'm glad he talked about it anyway.
But this is my dilemma. I don't blame anyone for leaving me if I exhibit toxic behaviors, and I don't blame myself for...
#fate
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
21st Mar 2025 1:16am
21st Mar 2025 1:16am
Love Deprivation Will Kill Me More Than Anything
I could be positive all I want to, love myself all I want to, but I know this loneliness is killing me. Not just emotionally but physically.
I know that I can't rely on people entirely, so it's easier to suffer in silence.
Even thinking about the expectations required for a friendship makes me want to go into a deep, deep sleep.
So many times, by so many people, I've been called selfish when all I've ever tried to do was be a wonderful lover and a wonderful friend.
I really can't respond to people's needs anymore. I can't be the understanding person...
I know that I can't rely on people entirely, so it's easier to suffer in silence.
Even thinking about the expectations required for a friendship makes me want to go into a deep, deep sleep.
So many times, by so many people, I've been called selfish when all I've ever tried to do was be a wonderful lover and a wonderful friend.
I really can't respond to people's needs anymore. I can't be the understanding person...
#dark
#loneliness
#sadness
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DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
19th Mar 2025 3:37pm
19th Mar 2025 3:37pm
The Fantasy Was Always Better Than The Reality
Ever since I was a little girl, I'd always imagine these beautiful fields of grass, towns, and majestic things all around. My world didn't make sense, yet it made perfect sense to me. This world, however, never did although it was supposed to make logical sense. I've been called a teenage idealist months ago on a forum. Somehow, that still makes me feel bad for being who I am, but I can't change it. I have no time to mull over it too much. Just have time to do what feeds my soul. And nothing feeds my soul, but the quiet, majestic things. My family did not feed my soul. People in general did...
#SelfReflection
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