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• Listen to Me Read My Newest Poem, “Heat Rises”

  Friday night for a poetry reading. This is a recent poem I wrote in time for spring in Boston. When I first posted this reading today, I revised the poem after hearing it (and that is a good writing tip—this one is complete.) I recorded this poem while in the car waiting for a seat…

  03/24/2023 6:54 pm

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• “Heat Rises”

  by Jade Nicole Beals Heat rises, and I seem to forget this. I place on the sunglasses that match this skirt and top outfit. Breezing in through the hallway, this sweetness must be the springtime flowers a-blossoming. I step outside the door, and the cold air grasps my bare thigh in Boston. I go right…

  03/24/2023 6:38 pm

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• A Day of Full Body Relaxation, Begin with Poetry

  

  morning sencha tea in forget-me-not antique mug 🤗, writing by hand a new piece in my new Celtic journal I’d found at a bookstore in February, and papers if I want to continue revising a poem. It is such a simple rich green design with a pleasant texture that my hands love to touch, and…

  03/09/2023 8:25 am

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• Best Bath Tips for Relaxation and Favorite Spa Fruit (with photos)

  

  For the new year…treat yourself extra good, especially if you are, for example, an artist, and no one but you may let you know it is time for your vacation…now 🙂 I recommend no phone in the bath though, this was an exception. 🙂 Cucumber slices for eyes, a few moments, eat a few, let…

  12/30/2022 2:41 pm

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• A Poetry Reading: Poems I Wrote and Read Aloud

  

  For relaxation and winding down before bed or anytime, or just to listen to poetry spoken, I have read aloud a couple of prose poems I wrote over the span of a few months. “Acknowledgment” “As If I Had Been The Harp Then and the Hidden Music” “Dhakeeyun” 🙂 Enjoy, 💕—Jade

  12/16/2022 1:32 pm

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• Christina Rossetti, A Classic Poet Not Often Heard, Celebrates a Birthday

  

  A poet whose writings meant a lot to me this year is Christina Rossetti. Born in London the same year as Emily Dickinson in 1830, she was of British and Italian heritage, wrote just a few questioning, romantic, sassy poems, along with her better known childrens’ rhyme in a book called Goblin Market, and was…

  12/12/2022 9:00 am

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• Writing My First Novel, A Glimpse of Thoughts on a Special Object Unnamed

  Home now. 🙂 Words written by hand tonight in my notebook for this novel, not typed up yet, just a free write that will be rephrased as part of an active scene to be written, which involve two main characters, and how they each feel or react to this same interesting object. I also wrote…

  12/09/2022 8:43 pm

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• “Resonance”

  by Jade Nicole Beals How do I word this: I want to enjoy a dessert that has not yet existed. I want to kiss as a practice. If you wish to. How did I find this video again? I practice the dance; I must try it again. I go to the mall to buy a…

  12/02/2022 10:55 pm

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• “The Law”

  November 21, 2022 A new poem in a style of summary or hypothetical; you may notice the style (somewhat inspired by the allegorical humor of artist and poet Kahlil Gibran). This poem was inspired but the subject of “law” and is about a real incident in the recent past recalled of leaving a book of…

  11/21/2022 7:08 am

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• candy

  last night I picked out candy vanilla and strawberry softly chewy ice cream cones in glitter I could taste Jade

  11/14/2022 10:23 pm

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• Re: Body and Mind

  …If your mind is boring you, enter the physical body and atmosphere: put on an outfit you feel like wearing, adjust the clothes comfortably, moisturize, tie a soft hair tie around your hair, notice it didn’t come as a finished ring, and position the tie around your hair, tightly and loosely, comb loose strands with…

  11/11/2022 7:27 pm

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• Indoors, Mostly Forget the Sky for Now, Pt. 1

  October 29, 2022, 8 pm night For tonight, let’s be indoors…Close and roll down the blinds, open partway, the stars are lit just a little, lamplights for relaxation and silent reading. I raced you to the chair: I think I got there first, am very fast. I like how you have better jokes. 😉 last…

  10/29/2022 7:36 pm

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• A Poem in the Making, Verse Three

  

  I have my two dictionaries, thesaurus, my poetry notebook and pen ready to continue my poem in the making I began yesterday. Monday. Verse Three. Again. How your lips cover mine in quick, full kisses: Seal this. In silence, only this redolence I come away with on the fibers of my homespun autumn dress.

  10/24/2022 10:12 am

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• Stanza by Stanza: A Poem in the Making, Verse Two

  This is my poem in the making. 🙂 When I reach the last stanza, I will revise it as much as I’d like and then post it all as one complete poem with a title… But I will also stop the “live verse by verse” midway and compose the second half of the poem off…

  10/23/2022 7:40 pm

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• Just Because

  … 2. One line poem in a minute or less: How do I word this: I want to enjoy a dessert that has not yet existed; I want to kiss as a practice. 😘 (The post’s title is an implied last line of this poem’s first line I’d not known I was going to write,…

  10/23/2022 4:48 pm

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• “Sincerity”

  AUGUST 8, 2022 The theme to write on was ‘flying and falling’ with 800 words max…This one is under 500 words, prose poetry in style. Sincerity by Jade Nicole Beals “Did you get new hips?” Colbert said to me. My face appearing non-phased, I said, “No, Why do you ask?” I had just begun to…

  08/08/2022 4:24 pm

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• On Marriage: Memories, Reflection, A Question

  October 20, 2020. New revision and additions, January 7, 2023. (Full length essay) 2009 It is May. I am at home at my desk in a green-painted bedroom, my cat, Sugar is resting on my bed, and my mom is downstairs doing something. I think my sister isn’t home. I receive a message online and…

  10/20/2020 12:49 pm

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