{"product_id":"i-didn-t-know-how-to-say-it-briefly-so-i-turned-it-into-a-poem-story-poems-from-my-soul-from-my-body-and-from-my-steps-in-self-awareness","title":"I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO SAY IT BRIEFLY, SO I TURNED IT INTO A POEM: Story-poems, from my soul, from my body, and from my steps in self-awareness.","description":"I no longer benefit from staying silent.\nSo I finally undress myself in words…\nthe way I know best.\nSince I was a child, I lived with an unbreakable imagination and a burning need to create.\nEverything that happened to me —or to those I loved— touched me so deeply,\nthat I couldn’t help but observe its causes, its effects, its energy…\nhow it shaped me, dragged me, drowned me, or lifted me.\nI am a person of sharp intuition.\nAnd many times, I had to stay quiet.\nDoesn’t it happen to you too?\nThere are things that aren’t seen… and we don’t know how to explain them.\nThings we love or that hurt us,\nbut we don’t know how to put into words without fearing that the world we built around them might collapse.\nWe grew up not to disappoint.\nWe were taught that to love was to be quiet, to give in, to adapt, not to make others uncomfortable.\nAnd so I grew up… confusing sacrifice with love,\nboundaries with lack of love,\nchoice with selfishness.\nI stayed quiet for so long, I ended up denying myself.\nI hid.\nAnd my shadow took over.\nArt became my refuge.\nBut my feeling… my feeling has always been my greatest power.\nFeeling is not a weakness, it is a fire that ignites.\nWhen we feel, we inhabit our essence.\nAnd when we move from there, we truly live.\nBecause the most important part of us as human beings…\nis what can’t be seen.\nThat which arises from a moment,\nthat lights us up and moves us.\nThat which cannot be controlled by the mind.\nMy purpose with this book is to express in each poem not just a situation, an idea, or a feeling,\nbut to truly reflect a lesson that arises from every circumstance.\nI’ve always felt the urgent need to share my perspective on everything I live and observe,\nbut I didn’t always know how to say it in just a few words.\nAnd in this world where everything moves so fast,\nI wanted to do it in a more artistic, brief way…\na way that lets you travel easily through the words,\nbut leave with something much greater when you finish reading.\nThis book is that:\nA collection of steps.\nA constellation of moments in which I didn’t know how to say it briefly…\nso I turned it into a poem.\nEach text here holds a truth.\nA lesson. A decision. An awakening.\nBecause everything that ignites us —the good, the difficult, the confusing—\ncomes to shape us, to reveal a power, or to change our course.\nEach verse is my life.\nEach letter, my perspective.\nEach poem, my truth.\nWhich doesn’t have to be yours.\nBut if something within you lights up when you read me,\nthen maybe I’m not so alone in this feeling.\n— Alexandra Valentina Rosales Arvelo\nCatadora de Palabras\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0FG82H53C\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.B0FG82H53C.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rosales  Arvelo, Alexandra  Valentina\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43282836258877,"sku":"BVV.B0FG82H53C.A","price":15.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/i-didn-t-know-how-to-say-it-briefly-so-i-turned-it-into-a-poem-story-poems-from-my-soul-from-my-body-and-from-my-steps-in-self-awareness","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}