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Kimmery Moss - Poet

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🌙 A poet in the wild!
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IT WAS NOT BORING!!!!!

Silly Goose Summer chronicles continue…
This was my best trick yet!

Massive, huge, loving gratitude to @poemsandpeonies for building us a whole poetry club of powerful woman weirdos where I met @manifestingbookmagic & @mjvcoast & @katie_jean_gilmour @_jessica.amos_ @artbyaliciam & @denim_dragonflies. My life is so big now.

We’ve all made a pact to never be boring again.
JOIN US.
🤘🏻😎🪩 by @kimmerywrites

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3 months ago

MY BOOK IS HERE!

Kaleidoscope Woman, the story of how I threw a wrench into my own life and used it as an invitation to whole and total self-acceptance.

I was never a bunch of jumbled parts… I was a kaleidoscope all along!

🩷 Link in Bio / Stories / or search “Kaleidoscope Woman by Kimmery Moss” on Amazon 🩷

@poemsandpeonies & @poemsandpowerpublishing by @kimmerywrites

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5 months ago

LAST NIGHT WAS THE BEST NIGHT EVER 😭🥰

I feel a happiness in my bones and I think I am going to let it sink in and stay here a long, long while!

I was incredibly nervous to throw myself a book celebration party but I am SO GLAD they encouraged me to. It was an actual dream come true!

Thank you to every single woman who was there, my best friends, women I raise my children beside, the ones who make art with me, who let me be me, who come to all my ridiculous parties, who cheer me on, who wanted me to sign their books, who cry with me when I’m crying, who laugh with me when I’m being a total weirdo, who help me set up and clean up and make me fresh baked goods and enormous cheese platters, who open their homes to me and my children, who hug me on the days I need it, my cul-de-sac women…

I love you so much!
Thank you for last night 🩷 I will carry it with me forever. by @kimmerywrites

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4 months ago

A BIG LIFE, like this.

I’m working on something big and exciting right now but I’m not ready to share yet. That’s how out of my comfort zone I push myself to be in! And that’s the key to why my life is so wonderful.

Fortune favors the brave, after all.

What’s something brave you’re working on?

Share one & cheer someone on while you’re down there in the comments!

Cameos from some very special humans who’ve cheered me on the whole way: @manifestingbookmagic, @poemsandpeonies, @mylibertybot, my mom, all my art mamas in class, everyone who bought and read my book, all my besties at my book launch, and all of you. SO MUCH LOVE! by @kimmerywrites

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13 hours ago

For the birth warriors, a poem:

Seven years ago I was in my third day of labor
I had no waters left to shield you from the crushing pain of living
But you wanted to live anyhow
Thank God, we wanted to live anyhow!
Drastic measures were made,
Through I was assured “this is all very routine”
My insides were opened to the elements
And by nightfall you were lifted into a sterile room
I could not lift my arms
You were whisked away
But thank God you wanted to live
So eventually I was wheeled to you and we met, two warriors holding each other after battle
I often wondered if my blood spilled all over the floor when they opened me
(But I was told there was gauze)
I often wondered what it felt like to leave my body and enter the bright white lights of a hospital wing
I often wondered if there had been some other way to meet you
But that wasn’t written on the script of life
Despite it all— we breathed!
I wasn’t dying on a bed somewhere in some cottage two hundred years ago while everyone made long glances at each other and silently wept
I was stitched and transfused and whatever the opposite of swelled was
And we were together at last.

Now—
These many thousand breaths later
I hold my younger self in my own arms and thank her
Because I’ll be waking you soon from that big queen bed you don’t quite fill yet
And we’ll be having cake for breakfast
and our smilies will reach the wooden planks of our ceiling
And if there was no ceiling they’d reach the sky, the sun, whatever atmosphere lives up there beyond it all!
All of this,
All of
this
because we were two women
too stubborn to give up

- @kimmerywrites

#birth #motherhood by @kimmerywrites

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a day ago

DO THIS WITH ME!!
It totally changed my life.

Instructions above ⬆️
xoxo, K by @kimmerywrites

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6 days ago

Ok the craziest thing happened last night as I was filling my bath…

I watched @poet.s.souther read her poem and immediately sat down on the bathroom floor and wrote an after poem. Like, nothing else on earth mattered except writing this poem. And I am obsessed with it! I love being inspired by my friends. Here’s what I wrote:

I want you to make art out of me
(After Sarah Souther)

I want you to throw a big man-sized axe into the wheel of consumption and stop it cold
Usher everyone back into the tall grass
Choose a palette of earth tones and California poppies and crushed pomegranate seeds
I want you to use a dense weed for a paint brush
I know you’ve seen the smoldering line in me
and I want you to get it just right
Maybe paint isn’t your thing—
Make me into a sculpture and don’t smooth out my rough edges
Build the four post bed of me with a draped chiffon canopy
Better yet get your hands all dirty making me into some ceramic masterpiece
You already know me to be a vessel of God’s own sweet syrup
I am waiting to walk past a gallery and see myself there
Some chalky textured thing with white space because you weren’t sure how to fill me in correctly
Make me a pastel or an abstract resin piece
Sing me into a melody I can dance to
Hell, make me a door!
Anything but a table top
Anything but a blank sheet of paper
Put words all over it if you must
There’s nothing more an artist wants than to become a piece of art
Hang me on our bedroom wall so I can wake myself with myself every damn morning
Immortalize me for millennia
Have all the tourist coming to see long after I’m ash
Oh I want you to make art out of me.

- @kimmerywrites

Follow along for more poetry & art 🩷🤘🏻 by @kimmerywrites

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7 days ago

Happy birthday, baby! 🥹

*instagram has alerted me that posts over 3 minutes long will NOT be shown to new audiences. Ok. Sooo…
Did I cut the poem short? ABSOLUTELY NOT.
It’s a work of art, just like my daughter.

I won’t cut a single word.

Maybe this one isn’t for the whole wild world, it’s for her, and for all the mamas who also gave birth to a force of nature in the form of a girl.

Cheers to that! 💪🏼💥🩷 by @kimmerywrites

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11 days ago

Time to break the mold & set her free!

POEM: There is a piece of God in me and I’ve covered her with plaster

Haven’t let her be a moving thing
(Maybe if she was a statue she’d be untainted by my messy movements)
I grabbed something resembling a chisel and bit by bit
Set her free
Was it her ears first? Her beating heart?
Oh, that’s right, I uncovered her big blue eyes
Saw the world for what it was
Saw my own fleshy bits for what they were
Something like a god wrapped in gold wrapped in starlight
A chasm made whole by my own doing
What it feels like to wake to sunlight and no devices
The first and last bite of the double smash burger with secret sauce
The warmth of a child who wakes you for nothing but comfort
A safe space, after all that searching
I told my son thank you for being my kid and he laughed
“That doesn’t make sense, Mommy”
But I knew he had a choice, even if he’s made himself forget
“I just love that you’re my kid”
The night pulls on me while they all sleep
And I ponder the conversations of blue whales and the consequences of my own allowances
I am but one humongous energy body in a sea of humans, half awake
I swore I would stop shaking them but I can’t help myself
There is a kernel of God in me,
Bit by bit breaking the old mold.

- @kimmerywrites
💥🩷✨ by @kimmerywrites

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13 days ago

OK THE LAST CLIP HAS ME LAUGHING SO HARD!!!

I’ve made a decision to commit to being my weirdest self.
Maybe that’s what all the healing was for: being a kid again.

I HEARBY PROMISE TO BE NOT BORING FOREVER!!!

Cheers to that.
Who’s with me? by @kimmerywrites

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15 days ago

I’ll let the prompts speak for themselves 😍

Write some poetry & tag us so we can read your beautiful words! 💋

Xoxo, K and all the wild women poets of this new era by @kimmerywrites

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18 days ago

Something about me:
I LOVE A PLAN.

My plans used to be very serious.
15 steps, annotated, dated, etc etc.

Now my plans look more like this:
Prioritizing art, whimsy, books, nature, expansion and peace. One of my biggest goals is a daily 1-song dance party every morning. My best friend and I have decided to be accountability partners on this! 😆

I think we’re awesome.

What’s your October looking like?

Ps come to art class! Mondays 7:30pm 🎨 by @kimmerywrites

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18 days ago