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Paper Poetry

We are living in the digital world, covered in the autonomous aspects & tracked motions of life. Yet, somehow we are losing some critical elements. Keyboards, touchpads, & speech-to-text are there, but we believe that handwritten words on paper is still meaningful to some poets.

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At the Edge

2 min readOct 17, 2026

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You don’t leap into the unknown
with a running start.
You sit first.
Right here, where the known ground
meets the dark —
the edge is a threshold,
not a cliff.

Inside the plane, you learn to fly.
Inside the boat, you sail.
You can’t explore from outside,
with your feet still on solid ground
and your heart still doubting.

So sit at the border.
Let your eyes adjust to the shadows.
Take one step.
Wait.
Feel your ground shift beneath you,
and feel how it holds.

Then take another.

The comfort zone grows not from leaping,
but from living at its edge —
slowly, steadily,
expanding the circle of safety
with each small breath,
each quiet step.

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I am an all-rounder in the sense that I am an Acupuncturist, psychologist, homeopath, philosopher, and poet.

Paper Poetry
Paper Poetry

Published in Paper Poetry

We are living in the digital world, covered in the autonomous aspects & tracked motions of life. Yet, somehow we are losing some critical elements. Keyboards, touchpads, & speech-to-text are there, but we believe that handwritten words on paper is still meaningful to some poets.