Waking Wildflowers

By Jess Lynn

Waking. Death. Birth. Rising.

 

In poetry and prose, Waking Wildflowers explores the journey of healing, from the discomfort of shedding your old skin to learning to be gentle with oneself.

Rooted in nature, hope, and desparation, Waking Wildflowers takes the reader through the tremulous seasons of waking up to wholeheartedness.

 

Waking Wildflowers is Jess Lynn's first collection of poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jess Lynn
• Release date: Jun 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9798988138716

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Waking Wildflowers

poems of becoming

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jess lynn

Waking Wildflowers

Copyright © 2023 by Jess Lynn

ISBN: 979-8-9881387-1-6

All rights reserved.

No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

Illustrations: AnnArt (Creative Market)

Cover Design: Jess Lynn

First Edition 2023

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To all the wildflowers who wondered if they would ever bloom

You will.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

Preface

Content Warning

WAKING

Every Story Begins

Let Me Grow

I Want to Be a Wildflower

Purple

The Longing

I Want a Life

I am No Longer Content

A Six Looks for Answers

To Be Gentle With Oneself (Part 1)

What is Good Enough?

Magic & Mayhem

Remember Who You Were

These I’ve Loved Since I was Little

Reflect Your Magic

Notes for Waking

It was Necessary for Me to Fall Apart

Wildflower Manifesto

DEATH

Sometimes Death Comes First

Absence

Scattered

Almost 40. 

It Hurts

Bloodletting in Plain Sight

Worry

On Trying (or, what is still to be learned)

On the Rigorous, Uphill Climb

Ignoble Exhaustion

How could I trust?

Modern Self-flagellation

I’m the One People Speak About

Old Skin

Hard Hope

Even If the Magic Doesn’t Come

Winter

A poem written while walking and listening

Unexpected

BIRTH

What is a Wildflower?

To Begin Again

Unhurried Welcoming

You Can Be Kind to Yourself

Insecurity

A thank You Note for Snowdrops

The Last Flower Crown

Hard Hope (reprise)

Remember to Delight

I Can Rest

Reminders for Being Alive

On Another Year’s End

The Grandmothers Speak

A New Kind of To Do List

A Note to My Body

Today We Get Back Up Again

Reframe

RISING

I Have Not Failed Before I’ve Started

To Be