So This Is How It Is (A Poem To Remind You Of Your Divinity)

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse

so, this is how it is. you get picked last for the team left out of the plans excluded from the circle. the rejection letter arrives in the mail she picks the other girl the door you were about to walk through gets slammed hard in your face and you are left outside in...

Blessed Be

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Gratitude + Attention, Poetry + Verse

Blessed be your longing. Your endless ache. Your sharp crystal shatter. Your sea glass heart. Blessed be the long, slow slide into desire. The swift plunging wound to the heart. The bleeding out onto the kitchen floor. Blessed be the fierce of want and the howl of...

easy

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse

am I too much for you? no, I’m not easy. don’t come to me for simple. you want that you’d best look somewhere else, dear i’ve got currents beneath my surface that will feel like ruthless riptides if you come too close without being ready to ride my waves i don’t do...

for all of this i honor you. {a new years poem}

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse

For you, and for the lifetimes you’ve lived in one short year: For the endings, and the beginnings and all the spaces in between. For last year’s words and this years voice and for everything that must remain unsaid. For boldly speaking your truth and for all that you...

you are still here: a poem to remind you

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse

{Because there are times that the very force of your reality – the relentless pace, the depths of what has been won and lost and seen and done and of all that relies on you, the pressing weight that you feel when you first wake up in the morning and...