Shownotes
She will always be an unfinished poem.
Unfinished in the way she lives -
where passion collides with fear,
and potential and failure reside in the same home. There is this great risk,
a constant edge of falling apart
no matter what she pursues.
That’s her way through the world.
I wonder if she chooses this incompletion
or if fate carved it into her life
before she ever had a say.
And I wonder -
if I finish something she couldn’t,
would that mean her fate isn’t mine after all?
- Nur Houda Or
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I’m filling the next chapter of One Poem Only and would love to include your work. Send me the poem you wrote and want the world to hear. New this round: if you’d like to read your own poem on the podcast, you can. No need for a perfect studio recording—just a clear audio file recorded in a quiet space. If you choose this option, you’ll submit your poem and an audio file of you reading it. Submissions close Thursday, July 30. I’ll respond by August 12. Whether I read your poem or you read it yourself, I’d love to hear what you’re ready to share.
