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a free verse exploration of the Dark Night of the Soul.

Feb 10 • shan walker

A change is gonna come...maybe?

A self-deprecating, yet, highly introspective poem.

Nov 5, 2025 • shan walker

roots - a poem.

you chose to put down roots where grief had already been firmly planted.

Aug 5, 2025 • shan walker

why i am a romantic. - a poem.

(besides my venus being exhalted in pisces.)

Jul 4, 2025 • shan walker

alchemy - a poem.

i don’t just want to connect; i want to converge.

Jun 9, 2025 • shan walker

attn: lovergirls. - a sharply honest essay.

my reasonably biased observation of the phenomenon that is the 'anxious to avoidant attachment pipeline' in many millennial + gen z women.

May 19, 2025 • shan walker

a free-verse exploration on my sacred affinity for nature and the pull of reconnecting with her.

Apr 25, 2025 • shan walker

mid-life...are we there, yet? - an introspective mini-essay.

I'm in the throes of 'pre' mid-life, and I'm not afraid; I'm all in.

Apr 15, 2025 • shan walker

about a breakup - a poem.

i wish you so well.

Mar 19, 2025 • shan walker

Shan, The Dreamer.

Shan, The Dreamer.

A philosophical (at-times esoteric) amalgamation of the threads of my soul, expressed through my writing.

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