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TITLE: Where silence learns to speak
CATEGORY: creative writing
DESCRIPTION: An original poetry piece exploring silence, unspoken emotions and the beauty of finding expressions through words. Written with imagery, emotional depth and thoughtful story telling.
SAMPLE WORK:
Where silence learns to speak,
silence once lived beneath her skin,
where unspoken words grew rots within,
she wore her storms behind quiet eyes,
and tucked her truth beneath the skies.
Until one day the stillness broke,
and trembling lips founds words to speak.
For even the quiet hearts can bloom,
and even silence can make a room.
for stories waiting to be heard.
sometimes, healing begins
with a single word.
by Nazifah's_Pen.
“Where silence learns to speak” is a title doing the heavy lifting before the poem even starts.
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What ties it together: finding the human story inside the research, and writing it so people read to the end.
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We change them.
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Every thought holds more than its description.
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