within blood & tea is an art project/emotional blog by the Sentimental Hummingbird, weaving poetry and creative works into life’s simplest and most intricate moments. It embraces both the light and the darkness, honoring the fragments of connection and truth that make the journey worthwhile. Even in heaviness, meaning can be found in the smallest glimmers of beauty.
within blood & tea
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poetry
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journal excerpts
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personal essays
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the stains between the fridge and the garage wall
personal essay
… It’s like, I can feel hands around my neck. I mistake them for the Universe but they’re really my own… And I’ve been waiting for someone to save me, but what if the only one who can do that is me? …
i’m scared to journal
journal excerpt
I’m scared to journal because it’s hard to keep up with what my mind has to say. I’m thinking of 7+ things to say next before I’m even finished with the sentence I’m currently writing...
set me free
poetry
i carry wounds deep within filled with salt and rotten to the core.
there is no saving me, i often think…
dying forbidden fruit
poetry
i find myself quietly laying on the forest floor.
there's a fog to my vision and my hands are numb…
this summer killed me
poetry
this summer killed me over and over again.
a shrieking sun of self sabotage and wreckage;
burning, circling above…
you’re still alive
poetry
glowing lights in abondoned places
reignite what you thought you lost…
suffocate me
poetry
i fall amongst a bed of clouds and say to them:
“suffocate me, then bring my life back;
back to my eyes and the stars in my chest…