Tag: Inspiration

  • How to Write a Gratitude Letter to a Beloved Partner and Will my lover like one? How to appreciate without smothering


    (For the Living, the Departed, and the One You’re Calling In This Thanksgiving)

    In a world overflowing with fleeting texts and hurried conversations, a gratitude letter is a gift of presence. It is a moment of pause. A soulful acknowledgment of love. A devotion in ink.

    As we approach Thanksgiving, a season rooted in reflection, appreciation, and communal warmth, writing a gratitude letter to your beloved can become a transformative ritual. Whether your love is beside you, in spirit beyond this world, or still on their way into your life… this letter is a sacred offering.

    My tip for your letter being welcomed? Write it in their language. Let us discuss this.

    Below, you’ll find structure, inspiration, and gentle instructions for creating a gratitude letter tailored to where your heart is right now.

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    Why a Gratitude Letter?

    Because love deserves language.
    Because feelings deserve form.
    Because gratitude deepens connection.

    Gratitude doesn’t have to be emotional. The idea is finding the things we are truly grateful for, not being demanding or manipulating through false gratitude.

    A gratitude letter:

    strengthens intimacy

    softens vulnerabilities

    heals emotional distance

    honors memory

    invites future love into existence


    It is prayer and poetry combined.

    it creates more of what you appreciate.

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    How to Begin

    Before you write… Create a moment.

    Light a candle
    Pour tea or wine
    Sit somewhere comfortable
    Slow your breathing

    And ask yourself:

    What have they given me, emotionally, spiritually, and experientially, that changed me for the better? Then feel good about what you find.

    You’re ready.

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    Structure of a Gratitude Letter

    You can follow this simple flow:

    1. Opening & Address
    Speak to them by name or with a term of endearment.

    2. Acknowledgment of Presence
    Where are you in life, emotionally? Where are they in relation to you?

    3. Thank you for…
    List specific things. Not generic. Specific.

    4. Memory or Moment
    Recall a detail or shared experience.

    5. The way they changed you:
    Describe the shift in your heart or your worldview.

    6. What you wish for them
    Blessings, intentions, love but only mention things you know they would appreciate.

    7. Closing sentiment
    Something personal.

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    If Your Partner is With You Now

    Write to them directly.

    Focus on:

    small kindnesses

    humor shared

    resilience

    growth together

    the mundane beauty

    the extraordinary tenderness


    Example starters:

    Thank you for the way you look at me when I’m tired…

    Thank you for choosing me, again and again…

    I love how safe I feel with you…


    Tell them what you appreciate that you rarely say.

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    If Your Beloved Has Passed Away ☆ sorry for your loss, and may you feel their presence through your gratitude. 🙏

    This is sacred ground.

    Writing to a departed love is a form of grief alchemy.

    You can:

    thank them for the life you shared

    reflect on lessons that remain alive in you

    acknowledge the pain of their absence

    celebrate the eternal nature of your connection

    express what you never got to say


    Example starters:

    I miss how your laughter filled the room…

    Your love made me braver…

    Thank you for the years that shaped me…

    I carry you in every sunrise and every quiet night…


    This letter becomes: honor + remembrance + healing. This is a ritual and may assist in healing. You will cry, focus on healing. You may place this letter in your Union Altar.

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    If You’re Writing to a Future Partner

    This is manifestation work.

    A gratitude letter for the partner who has not yet arrived is one of the most powerful tools for intentional love.

    Write as if they already exist. As if they are already on their way.

    Thank them as though they are already loving you beautifully.

    Example starters:

    Thank you for choosing me with your heart wide open…

    Thank you for the laughter we will share…

    Thank you for being the partner I prayed for…

    Thank you for cherishing my soul…


    This creates:

    energetic alignment

    emotional clarity

    subconscious preparation

    spiritual invitation


    A love letter as spellwork.

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    For Thanksgiving

    Here are prompts you can include:

    Write about…

    the love you have received this year

    the lessons love taught you

    how love expanded you

    how you have grown in giving love

    what you are grateful love will bring next


    Add a blessing, like: May warmth find us always.
    May love light the way forward.
    May gratitude multiply what we cherish.

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    End With a Ritual

    After you finish the letter:

    fold it carefully

    press it to your heart

    whisper a blessing

    store it in a special place
    or
    read it aloud to your partner
    or
    leave it under your pillow


    Our words become altars.

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    A gratitude letter is more than written appreciation.

    It is: a mirror of the heart,
    a celebration of love,
    a bridge between worlds, past, present, and future.

    May this Thanksgiving bring you warmth, memory, and beautiful expectation.
    May love find you wherever you are.

    Thank you for reading,

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    Talk again soon,

    Eve

  • Shadow Work. Part I – Beneath the Shadow: The Poem as Portal

    Dear Lovestar,

    This poem came through me during a time when my own heart was being pulled between light and darkness, between the self I thought I was and the self I had yet to meet.

    “Deep beneath my shadow,
    There’s no light to show
    The darkness I hide there,
    And secrets I don’t know.”

    When I wrote those words, I didn’t realize I was describing what Carl Jung called the Shadow, that hidden realm of our psyche that holds everything we repress, deny, or refuse to see in ourselves. In modern spirituality, we often speak of “shadow work,” but it’s not just a trend, it’s sacred psychology. Jung said the shadow is not evil; it’s the part of us that longs for integration, love, and wholeness.

    For twin flames, this becomes even more personal. Your shadow is mirrored by your counterpart. What you reject in yourself will often appear in them. That’s why shadow work is union work, it’s how we prepare for divine connection.

    When I say, “I shine a light into myself,” it’s a call to self-awareness. We can’t manifest light without acknowledging what’s hidden beneath it. We must meet the parts of ourselves that ache to be loved.

    This first part is your invitation: Don’t run from your darkness, hold it. The light you seek in your twin flame, in the divine, already burns in the very shadow you fear to face.

    I am collecting all my Carl Jung research into ebooks and soon you will see my collection of already published Carl Jung psychology for inner healing stuff.

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    Part 2 and 3 coming next.

    Talk soon,

    Eve

  • To be human is to judge. Poetic Journal

    Siren Chants poem, journal below.

    Dear lovestar,

    I cycle back to beloved activities, so I land now again at the feet of journaling and please forgive me for staying away for so long.

    I used my voice recorder to record a huge recording and using the awesome tech of speech to text, I present to you, my new journal page for more conformation of my crazy, I created this as a huge spoken word poem type of creation.

    Journal Entry ~ To Be Human is to Judge

    Today I sat with myself and all the noise in my head.
    I keep circling the same question:

    To be human is to judge.
    How do I know?
    How do I know what’s underneath what I feel?
    How do I know when I’m facing the real problem… or when I’m completely wrong?
    When am I mistaken, when is my mind a wreck, when did I misunderstand something crucial?
    And how do I know if what I feel is truly mine or something borrowed from others, leaking into me?

    I don’t know what it was, but I felt something and let it win.

    I exist in this mess of thoughts, in this strange chaos where nothing feels solid.
    At my best, I’m still a mess.
    I wonder: do I need a doctor, do I need rest, do I need a psychiatrist or simply a bed?
    How will I know for real when what’s coming is death when every other day feels like dying already?

    For now, this is how I live.
    I’m learning and growing, trying to crawl out of it somehow.
    I don’t choose to create from a sad state, but what else can I do except what I know?
    I learn as I go. I grow.

    The future feels like a puzzle I can’t solve.
    When it comes, it’s just another “now.”
    The present turns into the past, the future arrives as the present, and the tongue-twister never ends.
    So I judge the past with today’s awareness, knowing that in the future I’ll judge today just as harshly.
    Will I call my present mistakes failures later? Most likely.

    And it’s not just my fate: it’s humanity’s mess.
    Some of us make it, some of us never had the chance.
    Maybe judgment itself is the source of unease.
    Maybe acceptance of my human mess is the only way to relax.

    I try. I really do.
    But sometimes I break under the weight of my own expectations.
    Sometimes I lose my calm, collapse under pressure, and throw everything away.
    It makes me wonder if failure itself is proof that I’m human.

    Words are all I have to bear it.
    Confusion, too, is a strange comfort, it’s a place I can stand when I don’t know how to feel or what to say.
    Maybe I’ll always feel like I’m not enough, unworthy, unwell.
    But speaking helps. Writing helps.

    I don’t write this for anyone else, not for validation, not to be understood.
    Still, I know that sometimes my words carry the weight of feelings others have too.
    If you’ve ever felt alone in confusion, you’re not alone.
    If you’ve ever struggled with judgment, both of yourself and others, you’re not alone.

    Because to be human is to err.
    And to be human is to judge.

    The poem is extremely long, read the entire thing for free here:

    Or read this cool poem instead:

    I have new Sappho poems to share, and I updated my Sappho eBook.

    I’m still thinking,

    Eve

  • Life is Meaningless Without Love. Love poetry

    Tethered

    My home is you.
    My only release
    Is with you.
    My peace comes
    Through you.
    I seek refuge
    In your arms.
    I touch you and I relax.
    My touch a tether
    To my safe place
    Which is you.
    I’m grounded
    In your Love.

    Read this poem on X. Follow me on X, where I share many poems first.
    Very old poem… I used to not like it… see the original below
    I was ashamed to show this poem because I didn’t like it. It lived in my Pinterest. I only kept it because of the illustration. With my new skills, I can do a better illustration today. I could also write a better poem, but I kind of like this one now. Yes, my cursive is way better, also, edging on calligraphy.

    I would like to write a long thing today, but I can’t.

    Here is an update:

    I have been blogging about learning with my kids on my Home Education Situation blog, recently learning about Athena. Yes, it’s history 👏 🙌 👌

    Collaboration with my daughter Lilli
    Lilli’s Athena. She got an A+ by writing ATHENA in capital Greek letters. I was impressed.

    But also, I was rear-ended in traffic, and I’m injured, very stressed out, and I do not like to drive anymore 😕

    And I have a lot of stuff going on.

    I also figured a better way to teach my kids to multiply by skip counting. I will write about this on my learning blog.

    This was nice. Let’s do this again.

    If you can stand my poetry dumping, we can be friends, to be a part of this journal, comment, and let me know what poetry (and topics) you would like to read.

    Be blessed,

    Eve

  • Old poem week: Speaking on paper

    Dear Lovestar,

    Do you feel like me?

    “It’s not easy being me” speaks to the challenge of being a poet—someone who deeply values words, their meaning, and how they’re crafted. Writing allows you to take time, reflect, and carefully select the perfect words to express your thoughts and emotions. But when it comes to speaking, there’s less control, and that same level of precision can feel harder to achieve. 🌿✍️

    For poets, especially spiritual ones, words are not just communication—they are magic, spells, and art. So, while writing allows for the creation of something perfect and intentional, speaking feels raw, unfiltered, and sometimes harder to manage.

    The poem expresses how the poet’s true self shines on paper, where every word is chosen with care and meaning, but when it comes to speaking, it can feel more difficult to convey the same depth and beauty.

    And you, how is your communication most effective?

    With Love,

    Eve

  • Homeschool Plan: Learning Latin to inspire my children to learn Spanish/ languages

    Dear reader, First of all, this is absolutely not 100 percent of my homeschooling log. Additionally, my babies have awesome tutors, and I supplement their learning. Spanish is my first language. But I speak mostly English now. Dad speaks only English. Our children were not interested in learning Spanish, so I didn’t force them. Now, […]

    Homeschool Plan: Learning Latin to inspire my children to learn Spanish/ languages

    I am searching for Latin poetry since I don’t care about Roman texts. I feel their tears are not divine. I’m most interested in Sanskrit ancient divine texts…

    Eve, learning

  • Activities to include poetry in and my new poems

    My current favorite poem. My previous favorite was Interdimensional travel, which I just wrote into song form.

    Dear Lovestar,

    You know I’m a poetry fanatic. Today, I will give all (but including me) some ideas to include more poetry in our lives. I will be doing some of these.

    But first, my newest poem:

    "It Starts"

    It starts with a kiss
    Or the soft breeze
    Brings me a piece
    Of you.
    Or it starts with a look,
    Or a page in a book
    Reminds me of you.
    It starts with a thought.
    Sometimes mine,
    Sometimes yours
    Mostly both
    Simultaneously.
    It starts with a kiss
    And the progress is quick
    Until we're on our sheets
    Making Love.

    Eve Lovestar

    Activities to include poetry in

    **Homeschool**: I love homeschooling (my children also have tutors) and use poetry for their lessons. I studied a lot of poetry, and I want to at least introduce my children to this magic. My oldest daughter has a great writing tutor (Dr. Anthony Radice) who has a poetry study class, and I’m convincing her to take it. Currently, I’m creating a Cleopatra lesson that I’ve been working on for about one week. I’m designing it to be an inmersive experience rather than a normal class, so I’m creating 2 board games, and I have integrated visualization exercises throughout the lessons and now I’m writing a poem for Cleopatra. Cleopatra was cool. She liked poetry! It’s the least I could do for the most powerful woman in history.

    Exerpt of my children’s poem, Cleopatra
    Exerpt of Cleopatra. Work in progress


    **Leisure Time**: Relaxing on a hammock with a poetry book or even reading poetry online 😀 and some snacks 😋 😀 is the perfect evening of weekend activity. I read poetry every day. I write poetry most days.

    **Relaxation**: Weekends offer a break from the hustle and bustle of the workweek, making it an ideal time for leisurely pursuits such as reading poetry. Few things can be as relaxing. My tip is to save poems that are relaxing to you. Reminder that you can download most of my poems on my poetry collection, though this link totally free.

    http://www.mobileapp.app/to/duCowXa?ref=cl

    **Inspiration**: Whenever I find an inspirational poem, I save it. An inspiration poem is a great and very easy to use tool for inspiration.


    **Personal Rituals**: Some individuals may have personal rituals or routines that involve reading poetry on weekends, such as enjoying a cup of tea while delving into a collection of poems.

    **Spiritual Rituals**: Have you noticed how spells rhyme? It’s because there’s a secret power to rhyming and poetry. Including poetry and rhyming into our spiritual rituals makes sense.

    **Nature and Inspiration**: Outdoor activities and nature walks can inspire creativity and appreciation for poetry. I write poetry at the park. Reading good poetry at the park would be awesome, too.

    **Poetry in therapy**: Use poetry as a therapeutic tool for self-expression and reflection in counseling or support groups or personal reflections.

    **Journaling**: It not only looks good on your journal, remember, there’s a secret power in poetry. If you don’t write poetry, simply write on your journal favorite poems or excerpts of poetry that speak to you or make you feel a desired way.

    **Arts and Crafts**: Another use for poetry where it just makes sense. Practice your calligraphy, create artwork for your wall of a poem, dedication cards, use a printed poem as background for any art form, create mixed media art including a printed poem… the possibilities are endless. Please leave me a comment with additional ideas to include in this list.

    **Romance**: What are poets most know for? Being romantics. Poems can offer insight, advice, inspiration, or a new energy that could potentially enhance your love life. I use my poetry 💯 percent to manifest the dream union I have today. But even before I fell in love, I loved to indulge in the sweet energy of a romantic poem.

    **Learning a new language **: When you learn a new language, you study a lot of boring stuff. I’m suggesting you should study something fun like the poetry and/ or music I’m that language. It’ll be much more fun and it’ll help with learning about the culture, too.

    What did you think?

    Will you be using any of these tips?

    Did I miss anything?

    Thank you so much for reading, and if you have a topic for a future topic, please leave me a comment.

    With love and light,

    Eve

  • Sex. Don’t Fake Till You Make it. Do this instead…

    TRIGGER ALERT!!! This post could trigger sexual trauma and open unhealed wounds. I intend this brings you. healing. If you are aware of unhealed sexual trauma, don’t read this, instead message me through the Contact tool under Menu.

    “Fake it till you make it”

    Obviously, when we fake it, we are not being vulnerable, we’re not honestly showing our struggle, or we don’t know how to show our learning progress. Perhaps we feel embarrassed and  though we don’t talk about this, there’s a fake element to faking it.

    Some would fake it to appear smarter, more able to learn or perform, to appear “better” than they feel they are. This, I believe, stems from feeling inadequate, insecure, or not enough. This is, in my humble opinion, putting on a false mask that makes you appear able to do what you’re faking while buying you time to learn at a slower pace.

    The point we miss is that we’re all different and learning is a process. It’s obviously not only ok but expected to not know what you’re learning on day 1. There’s studying and practicing before we’re successful in whatever we’re learning and this includes sex. We will not be a sex god or goddess on day 1! Nor should we be.

    In sex, what does it mean to fake it?

    We fake it when we pretend to be enjoying ourselves during sex. We might act as if we had an orgasm, making the noises and movements that we believe we would make if we were having a real orgasm. We might vocalize, some might scream or say they’re having an orgasm like we see on the movies.

    In pretending to be enjoying ourselves, our partner would falsely believe that they are more able than they are to basically get us off sexually. Typically, when our partner has an amazing time while we have sex, we feel great about ourselves and therefore our self esteem is heightened. When we fake it, our partner might think they’re able to give us an orgasm when in truth they’re unable to or we’re not able to have an orgasm ourselves regardless of their ability.

    Typically and sadly, women fake orgasms. Nowadays, it’s well known that only a small percentage of women can actually achieve an orgasmic reaction to vaginal sex only. Many of us need much more than just vaginal sex to achieve it, some of us have never had one. Some of us, lucky ones, will find a special person later on who will be so incredible that we will finally reach the desired outcome.

    When we fake it, we exaggerate these noises and movements and if we don’t know what an orgasm really feels like, we might look and/ or feel fake. Therefore many are aware that their partner can fake it or might doubt their partner’s overt reactions! Watch out because if you get caught faking it, this might cause your partner’s self esteem to drop as if they’re unable to bring you to the gates of heaven through that most elusive female orgasm and they might be able to give you one if they just knew what to give you and how.

    Why do we fake it?

    I believe that some people might not even realize they are faking it, some people might think that they’re meant to make a bunch of noise or do certain things that might indicate they’re having a great time. It doesn’t help that porn is readily available for free and even movies paint a picture about sex that’s unreal, unnatural, and fake. It also doesn’t help that we’re exposed to that perversion of lovemaking early on. We seem to forget that is acting and obviously not real, and if we imitate it, we might not meet our expectations and/ or our partner’s expectations.

    People imitate the actions of movie stars, who are clearly acting, and not having a real orgasm for several reasons. It might look sexy from the outside looking in but reminder!!! that’s not what sex is like. When we engage in sex, we’re in the inside experiencing, not on the outside looking in! When we experience, we are not making a show for outsiders who can’t feel the act and our partner can feel us so there’s no need to put on a show.

    There’s probably many different reasons why people fake it. Certainly, a reason is we want to please our partner. We might feel that our partner wants the hot porn star, yet, in faking an orgasm, we’re not giving our partner the choice to please us. In truth, if our partner wants some hot movie star, then perhaps this is not the article for you, or if you’re in a soulmate or twin flame relationship, then perhaps you’re out of alignment, I’ve been there too! Finally, if you have been faking it, your partner might think it’s hot because it looks like a movie, yet they might be deprived of giving you the real experience.

    I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never faked it! Ever. First of all, I don’t believe in giving a mediocre partner a sense that they are able to bring me to an orgasm! And you might guess that I have indeed had sex with a mediocre partner and it’s true, I’m in the process of forgiving myself. An orgasm is something that I’ve only been able to achieve with my beloved, the one I call my twin flame, my one true love. It’s not something a woman achieves with anyone.

    Don’t Fake it. Instead do this.

    Females rejoice! We really have it good in sex! We don’t have the pressure males have when it comes to having one massive orgasm where if they fail to have one, they’ll have the hated “blue balls”. The universe blessed us with the incredible ability to have multiple orgasms, even to enjoy orgasm after orgasm and feel like the sex act was one massive orgasm, we have the ability to orgasm from the beginning to the end of the sexual encounter. We’re the orgasm queens and goddesses on this planet. So first of all relax and have fun with this. It can be a project, a self growth goal, a quest even, or something like a new year resolution or goal.

    But even if we’re unable to ask about what we need (I totally understand) there’s really no need to act as if we’re having an orgasm we’re not having and the joke is on us if we make our partner believe we love something we don’t even like and then we get that treatment daily! Instead start little by little indicating what you do love, whether it’s a kiss, a touch, a sight that is delightful. There’s always something truly pleasing if you are in a committed relationship. Our partners respond to what we love by paying close attention to our response and giving us more of what they believe we love and this is why you should not fake it if you want a truly enjoyable and healthy sex life.

    So don’t fake it! If you can, speak up. If you can’t speak up, fantasize! It’s a simple way to manifest what you truly desire. Well, I came to realize after years of fantasizing, that fantasies are not private at all, fantasies are energy that gets shared, just like thoughts are. What you’re fantasizing about, those thoughts are interacting with your partner! Also because when you fantasize, you’re working yourself closer to the place you need to be to reach the desired orgasm. Personally, when I needed to warm up, I go to my special place (in my head) which is our first night together, the night I had my first orgasm, I call this my master fantasy.

    What to do instead of faking it. Tips and tricks.

    • Relax and have fun
    • Be honest and vulnerable
    • Don’t make them think you love something you don’t love
    • Fantasize about what you want in bed
    • Create a master fantasy (for me it’s my first night with my beloved)
    • Respond to what you love in the natural way your body responds
    • Don’t block the natural response: scream or moan if you feel you should, be quiet if that’s more natural. If you’re having a full on body response and start shaking uncontrollably, let that be, and if your body tenses up, then allow that too. If you can speak, say their name or the expression that comes most naturally, and if it’s not possible to say anything, don’t force it. There’s no one size fits all.
    • Don’t watch porn or movies about sex to learn. No judgement if you do or have but figure out your own personal response rather than imitating acting from a movie.
    • Take charge and do what you love most
    • Experiment! You might enjoy even some things you thought you didn’t like

    The spiritual significance of faking it

    My beloved is Scorpio and don’t fake it with Scorpio because not only is Scorpio more than able to “get you off” but they can feel you and when they figure out you have been faking it, they might feel betrayed. Don’t lie to Scorpio! They would question why you did it and they will wonder what else you have been faking. Additionally, they might feel as though you are fake or not trustworthy.

    Spiritually speaking, and for those of us who believe in manifestation, it is possible that we’re manifesting what we don’t love most by faking an orgasm. We might be mistakenly manifesting  not our highest and most rewarding sex life. Additionally, it feels that by faking it, we’re aligning to something that’s not our highest vibe. Perhaps, we have mistakenly calibrated to a lower vibe, perhaps we’ve even calibrated to some perverted porn vibe. And if any perverted vibes have entered our reality, it’s entirely possible that lower, even dark energies (even entities) are feeding off our sexual energy which feels to be our highest creation energy.

    This is nothing to be feared and probably most of us have at some point picked up lower sex vibes. We could have picked up some lower sex vibes from friends, past lovers, abuse, trauma, karma, ancestral energy, curses, or by choosing/ accepting this energy by mistake. I understand, for some, this is crazy superstition but if you read this blog, does that resonate?

    Is it making love if I fake it?

    When we make love we are vulnerable and share ourselves completely with a willing and loving partner. This is the opposite of faking it. Sex can be faked but lovemaking is the real thing.

    If you’re lucky enough to have sex with your twin flame, don’t fake it.

    If you are lucky enough to have sex with your twin flame, don’t fake it! It is a great honor to actually engage in this way with your twin and don’t taint the energy with fake vibes! This might sound harsh but if you’re interested in having an honest relationship with your twin, then please engage with complete honesty. It could be considered running (and us twins don’t like that) from ourselves…

    Respectfully and never in judgement,

    with Love and light,

    Eve

  • Poem about writer’s block

    Hey friend, remember me?

    I took a long, long, long break post giving birth which was a phenomenal experience. My baby girl is 4 months now.

    Well, here is a little poem I whipped up 😍

    Writer’s block poem by Eve Lovestar

    Miraquill is the app where I share my poems.

    Here is what I said about this poem on Miraquill: