When One of Us Shines

She Will Not Be Quiet: A (mostly daily, mostly unedited) writing practice

GORGEOUS IMAGE BY SHELL FISCHER.

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Day #219 of (mostly unedited, mostly daily) writing/sharing.

Note: I won’t be posting my daily poems here from 10/17/25—10/24 (as I am going on vacation & will mostly be taking a screen break). I’ll see you back here on 10/27. xo

Thank you, Shell. You can find Shell at www.mindfulvalley.com

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When One of Us Shines

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I stand beneath the stars 
this morning, sliver of moon too, 
sky so clear and sure of herself, I feel 
my certainty too. It’s astonishing, really, 
to think the moon would be invisible 
without the sun’s generous light, 
how the stars, too, would be invisible 
without the dark of night.  
When one of us shines, 
the other does too, like this—
like the sun, like the moon. 

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