None to hesitate burst in your form. Next, a hunting eagle. As you absorb, you grow. Great little birdie lands before me as an everything I just can't contemplate. He is mountain. He is fire. He is dragon. Man and woman and a sun combined with moonlight and an ocean. Every tree blend to one empty erupting of volcanoes, flashing lightning, a hurricane and all things together spun vibration high as tears. I cry now, knowing time together has to be done
Laura L (she/her)
@LoloflowΒ Β·Β 1:30
Oh, my God. This is such queen energy. I'm just in awe. That was everything. You're spitting so much truth, and it is just so incredibly beautiful. When we are given a divine partnership and we let it grow us and evolve us and bring us home to our divinity, and releasing it is not easy, but allowing the divine plan to play out how it needs to is the ultimate freedom. And you just captured that so beautifully
DawnMaria Bradley
@Pixiepoet4lifeΒ Β·Β 1:15
And everything that I love and everything that I worship about God is here. Thank you for including me in this and sharing this with me. It is so beautiful. Renee, as are you, my friend. And your way of expressing is so unique. I just love it. And I love you, him
But it is how it is presented, the perspectives of it. And it's wild. And this was wild and free, like I said. And it's so bright. It's so bright, right? And beautiful. Wow. Just wow. Thank you so much for sharing this. And it is an epically, beautiful, amazing piece of art. My God, we're all better off for it being here. Thank you
Renee Slay
@Renee_SlayΒ Β·Β 3:57
So I sat down and I said, I'm going to write a poem, because I was just so sad in my heart for my son, and I was going to write about his bird. And I don't think that it was just me writing this. And I know you'll know what I'm talking about. I think this was this was divine. This was my helpers. This was my guides
Renee Slay
@Renee_SlayΒ Β·Β 2:25
I love you too, lady. I am so, so glad that you love this piece. This piece is important. I sat down last night to write about my son's Bird, and him passing, and something happened. Something happened like this came out. And this is not what I was writing. What I was writing in my head just was completely different. And this took on a life of its own
Renee Slay
@Renee_SlayΒ Β·Β 4:30
You. I love the way you describe things and I love the response that you have to this. And it tells me something for sure because my backstory behind this, which is I'm just kind of in my response as letting people know, is that after my son's favorite pet, a bird passed away last well, yesterday morning he found it. And when I got home from work, we had went and buried it out by the river in the dark and cried
And after some time I knew that this was my person here. And I really feel like through poetry and even through swell in this community, I am finding these people and I'm building this tribe, and I'm realizing that it might not be people who will be my neighbors, who will live in the same place, but will feel me, that will know me. And I'm so happy about that and what you said. And this poem, in and of itself, it really solidified
I had a feeling that it would do just what it did, which is you just illustrated so well what I imagine that transition to be like. And the kind of hope that I hold on to that that is the freedom that my child, that my kiddo is now free of trying to maneuver themselves into boxes that just couldn't contain her and is now free
Laura L (she/her)
@LoloflowΒ Β·Β 1:14
Oh, the great mystery. Right. Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. And that saying the crack is where the light gets in. I think all poets have some experience with that. And I find especially in grief, it's like a portal. And when you relax and open yourself up to whatever needs to come out, then you just create some incredible magic and that other people need and want as well. It's all so incredibly woven together, isn't it?
Renee Slay
@Renee_SlayΒ Β·Β 4:42
And it's funny that the people that I am drawn to the most, their writing style, end up being these people. Like what you're saying that you vibe with the most that are like you. And maybe they're not your neighbors, but my neighbors aren't like me. Before coming to Swell, I was at a spot. And for all of my life, I have questioned being different. I've known that I'm different, that I'm not especially where I'm at
Renee Slay
@Renee_SlayΒ Β·Β 4:46
But everything like everything you look at. Imagine that all coming together, coming home. I love knowing that people that have your heart exist, and I love knowing that we were supposed to have this conversation and that there's more to come. I resonate with you completely, and I love you. And you're supported and lifted up by guides that you don't see and a god that is everything. And really think about that word, man. Everything. That is love. How beautiful
