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the shape of you
some things, I've decided,
are better left as fossils
crumpled, shaken things
you never would have said

Amber Byers
Oct 311 min read
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how could we have known?
the heat that came in waves
throughout our homes, our feet, our minds
sizzled like slugs
caught on the drying, moth-eaten rind

Amber Byers
Sep 291 min read
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where lost memories go
it's the place where lost memories go
to die
to be reborn
and maybe
circle back
around
and around
twice or thrice
until we forget
which side was up
where fact left off
and fiction gained
and truth became the thorn

Amber Byers
Sep 142 min read
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raindrops always sound like home
they say you're only lonesome when it rains
something about the gods weeping
but I don't think that's true

Amber Byers
Aug 142 min read
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"You are" Poems
These tiny poems are freeing because they don't have to make sense. What does it mean to be a gleam in a buffalo's eye? What does it mean to be yesterday? Or a Saturday? What if whatever you wrote made perfect sense and no sense at all?

Amber Byers
Apr 292 min read
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Now close your eyes and say good night; I’ll close the door real tight.
The keeper of the keys of time had watched over the kingdom longer than time itself. He walked the lands at night, checking every door. What

Amber Byers
Mar 301 min read
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Who We Are Now
I started writing this blog, Living a Life Imagined, over 7 years ago. I heard that's the amount of time it takes our bodies to regenerate n

Amber Byers
Sep 30, 20233 min read
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Living a Life Imagined: A blog about writing. About living. About daring to dream.
It's never too early and it's never too late to start following your dreams. It's always the perfect time.

Amber Byers
Feb 1, 20201 min read
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