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Kimberly Vanderhorst

@kymburlee.bsky.social

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AuDHD author of poetry, prose, and magic. Thinks you’re lovely and wants to tell you so. Book in link. 📖 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 she/her/hers https://linktr.ee/kimberlyvanderhorst

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · Mar 10

I am made fragile
by the beauty of the stars
by their sharp edges
and fierce burning
a glass heart cracking
beneath the weight
of the sky

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 1d

Dawww. 🥰

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 1d

What a lovely thing to say. Thank you so much. ☺️

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you. ☺️

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 2d

and when the waves came
they knew her well
and welcomed her
as their own

she
who also rose and fell
with the tug of lunar tides
and other darker forces

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 3d

she lives
in the land
of the still waters
where the sky kneels
to press kisses against
the face of the earth
birthing a new
horizon

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much. 🥰

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you so much. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 5d

oh, love
do not seize this day
open your hands—invite her
into the tender realm
of your holding

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly. ☺️

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 5d

she is
the path
through the deep, dark wood
the one that carries you homeward
when you’ve forgotten how
to be anything but lost

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 5d

her breath
bruises the air
in hues of plum
and azure aching

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 6d

she wakes to a world
of shades and shadows

a consequence
of light

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you. 🥰

There’s so much potential magic in vessels, for good or ill. The holding of things. ❤️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 6d

she is
an unfit container
for all they want her to hold

she has
shaped herself
into this flat aspect

a table
when all they want
is a bowl

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you. ☺️

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 7d

she forges folds
into her paper heart
crafting crisp creases
with fingers aching
to crumple

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, lovely. 🥹

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 8d

☺️❤️🫶

Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 8d

it’s a strange thing
to fall in love
with a poem

to yearn
after stanzas
and s y l l a b l e s

to smile as a simile
to hold a metaphor
like a dire breath

#poetry

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 9d

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