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  • Find Reasons To Stay

    Find Reasons To Stay

    Find reasons to stay and stay relentless.

    Rest is still progress and rebirth is a journey.

    You will find your way.

    JACQUELINE LENTE POETRY

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    I lay under a sky painted with sweet dreams of us.

    Planets in my head,

    Galaxies in my eyes.

    The night whispers your name, you are always on my mind.

    JACQUELINE LENTE POETRY

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    Wisdom rises from failure.

    Dwell not on the past nor inflame the source.

    Correct your misconceptions.

    Transcend limitations.

    Move into the unknown.

    All the power lies within your true self and untroubled spirit.

    JACQUELINE LENTE POETRY

  • Two Strangers Part Two

    Two Strangers Part Two

    Two Strangers met
    And accidentally fell in as more than lovers

    We had different demons but matching wounds,
    And sad past tales to tell

    Two broken souls
    Trying to find some guidance home within each other

    Sadly,
    The echos of fear, ego, and past trauma were too great
    Destruction and self-sabotage got in the way
    We became lost

    From drowning in your gaze
    Skin to skin
    To drowning in your absence

    Another scar to add to the map
    Out in the cold again
    At war with my head again

    Two Strangers met
    And fell in as more than lovers
    But Love is war
    Life is chaos
    And two lovers became two strangers again.

    – Two Strangers Part Two

    JACQUELINE LENTE POETRY

  • Two Strangers

    Two Strangers

    You smell like rain and I want to be a part of your storm.

    Drown me in your gaze.
    Rearrange my mind.
    Hold me close,
    Skin to skin.

    Keep me warm from the cold of the outside world
    And the world inside my head.

    Our demons may be different,
    But we wear matching wounds.

    Tangled bones and a map of scars.
    Just trying to find some guidance home.

    – “Two Strangers”

    Jacqueline Lente Poetry

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    The sad truth is
    No one else can save you.

    You have to dust away the misery.

    Darker times behind, darker times ahead
    We are endlessly changing.

    Facing scattered dreams,
    Silent screams.

    Bleeding for a thousand reasons.

    Rebirth,
    The heart beats slow.

    Safe in quiet places
    Seeking my own comforts,
    My own means to stay alive.

    Jacqueline Lente Poetry

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    I’ve vanished in the silence.
    Buried everything in boxes, in the attic of my mind.

    Creaking thoughts
    Always trying to escape.

    My heart,
    A garden of lost things
    And empty spaces.

    – Jacqueline Lente Poetry
    – http://www.jacquelineannlente.wordpress.com

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    Creaking skeletal trees.
    Wolves with kerosene eyes.

    Ghosts crying in the walls
    While winter slowly creeps behind me.

    This internal battle is on the edge of dying dreams.

    Life plays the dark symphony
    The nights grow even longer, draped in the veils of wistful sorrow,
    And a small dying hope for better days.

    – Jacqueline Lente Poetry
    – http://www.jacquelineannlente.wordpress.com

  • Melancholia We Meet Again, My Oldest Friend

    Melancholia We Meet Again, My Oldest Friend

    In the space between endings
    Where the shadows settle

    Demons hide in the corners,
    Creeping aroung my delicate bones.

    My loneliest hour,
    Sadder than the skies crying out.

    The inevitable fall,
    The deepest inhale
    Before I drown in this violent storm of tangled memories and pain.

    Melancholia we meet again, my oldest friend.

    JACQUELINE LENTE POETRY

  • Serenity Is A Dream

    Serenity Is A Dream

    My mind is at war.
    My heart wants peace.

    One moment I am falling,
    Then floating the next,
    And falling again.
    On repeat.

    The demons creep around.
    Seeping into my bones.
    They have become my bestfriends
    When I am alone.

    Serenity is a dream far away from here.
    Reality is a prison.
    Constantly trying to escape,
    But never fully reaching the exit gates.

    – Jacqueline Ann Lente

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    There was a scarlett moon against a sapphire sky,
    And all the stars lit up in the shape of you

    I’m dancing with the ghost of your memories in the open air,
    And I remember

    As the moon sits in the sky,
    So too are the one’s we love who will never truly die.


    – Jacqueline Ann Lente

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    This bridge is the hardest to cross. The river of pain flowing underneath is overtaking, all consuming.

    Taken out to sea. Now it is just me and the crashing waves. I’m screaming storms and shouting thunder,
    All the while adrift in the rift of oblivion.

    But sometimes you have to hold your own hand and sail through the breakdowns.
    As the storms break and the sea calms,
    I see the stars bright reflection bouncing off the water,
    I hear the sweet lullabies of the world laced into the night sky.

    And I know I have to ride the waves and weather the storms to make the journey back to shore.

    – Jacqueline Ann Lente

    – http://www.jacquelineannlente.wordpress.com

    Featured image taken by Jacqueline Ann Lente

  • Do you need time?

    Do you need time?

    Daily Prompt:

    Do I need time? Always.

    Doesn’t everybody need time? It feels like in this world today, time is constantly running out. There is so much to do and to make to live, but never enough time to do it.

    Even if you have a schedule or a routine. There is always something to add to it. We are always asking for more time.

    More time to ourselves, more time to relax, more time to take a break off work, more time to spend with our loved ones, more time to get everything done that we need too.

    The list is endless.

    Time is also endless, it continues on. Yet it seems as it is just disappearing before our eyes.

    Years are flying by faster than ever before, but so much chaos and change has come and gone inbetween them. We always reminisce of days past, seemingly the good old days. When time didn’t feel like it was running away.

    Anything can happen in a day, week, month, year or in the blink of an eye. Time is prescious, it is the present, past and future all in one. So I suggest taking your time with things as much as you can, take a moment to take everything in and experience life to the fullest.

    Cause only time will tell what happens next.

  • The Delicate Dance of Healing

    The Delicate Dance of Healing

    I started loving me again, in the delicate dance of healing.


    I was forged from rage, channelling chaos. Now I am no longer shy of my authentic self. But I no longer want to be an acquaintance of chaos.


    I welcome the sweet sound of letting things go. The rush of relief, the complete silence in the aftermath.

    The slow crawl things try to make back inside my head. But no more!


    I grew tired of apologising for things that break me. I don’t want to be tangled in the cobwebs of my past anymore.


    I am content with solitary sunsets.

    Ill wear the sun like golden pearls, while I explore the world.

    And I look forward to tasting all the delightful what-ifs of the unknown.

    – “The Delicate Dance of Healing” – Jacqueline Ann Lente

  • What historical event fascinates you the most?

    What historical event fascinates you the most?

    DAILY WRITING PROMPT:

    What historical event fascinates me the most?

    The Holocaust – World War Two, Nazi Germany – 30th Jan 1933 – 8th May 1945.

    Let’s start with a bit of background information.

    The Holocaust is the deliberate and state-sanctioned genocide of six million Jewish people and an estimated five million murders of prisoners of war from Romany, people who were Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, the mentally ill and other victims that were deemed not of pure aryan race. The genocide was carried out by Hitler and his reign over Nazi Germany just before and at the height of World War Two.

    These systematic murders would take place via mass shootings and sending prisoners to concerntration camps to either be executed by gas, amongst other things or made to do forced labour. The concerntration camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor and Chlelmno. Towards the end of the war and due to Nazi Germany failing to win, these camps would turn into extermination camps. The Nazis tried to get rid of as much evidence of the camps as they could, which also meant killing as many prisoners as they could at a quick rate.

    Prisoner’s were also subjected to forced manual labour, starvation, illness, torture, being experimented on for medical research, extremely poor living conditions and most highly death by execution or by the gas chambers.

    The Holocaust fascinates me because it is such an extreme atrocity against human life. Such an unimaginable event that sadly happened and was allowed to happen in our history. This extremely tragic event makes me question what human beings are capable of? It makes me question how a human or human beings can do something so evil to other human beings? And how was it allowed to happen by the people in power and supported by the community and country? And largely, will it happen again in history? Maybe not in my time, maybe it will many many years later. However it’s not the first time in history the genocide of a population and groups of people has happened. The Armenian Genocide 1915-1916, Bosnia and Herzegovina Genocide 1992-1995, Cambodian Genocide 1975-1979 and East Timor Genocide 1975 are just a few to name from the list in history.

    The Holocaust brings up all of these questions and makes you deep dive into the human psyche, the history of nations and shows you what makes people do the things they do, even if it is the most extreme and inhumane act they could carry out.

    On the other side, are the stories of the persecuted and the survivors of the Holocaust.

    The stories of the survivors are so compelling. It shows the true strength of what someone can endure and survive. It is so important to listen to their stories to understand the true history of what happened and to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

    The Holocaust teaches us a lot about life, humanity and history. From all sides, we can learn a lot from it happening, especially to make sure it doesn’t happen again. I am also truly touched by the survivors and their stories and history and the history of their fellow fallen. I pay my respects to them all and for what they endured for the life we all live today.