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Season 5 of Elle moves to Europe

Hello my fellow bloggers and blog-lovers. This week marks two years of living in Germany. While I haven’t posted much on here since I’ve been here, I have been keeping myself busy. After my summer of backpacking and researching literature from each country I visited, I moved to Germany to start a master’s program in…

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{nonnative novelty} poem x e.l. jayne

because if I were in a different city, everything would feel so much different…  even if all other variables remained the same,  the same isolated days, leaving quaint cafes with clothes reeking of coffee, after a day’s worth of writing in my dilapidated diary, walking home under the same despondent streetlights, consuming far too few…

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{lavender rain} poem x e.l. jayne

{lavender rain} raindrops land on my exposed skin, beside the misty city skyline,  and tri-colored reflection of tail lights,  just like the rain we are created from the environment around us, of generations past, and our journey is just as purposeful as it is accidental. –e.l. jayne

{untitled poem xiii} x e.l. jayne

i hurry up and finish my civilian duties for the day so i can sit on this barren hardwood floor,  drink red wine,  and compose poetry, which is, in fact, my greatest contribution as a civilian. –e.l. jayne

‘moments of distraction from worse things…’

What I write, knowing that it’s bad, might also offer a few moments of distraction from worse things to another sad or wounded soul. That is enough, or rather, it isn’t but it nonetheless helps in some way, and that’s how it is with life. Fernando Pessoa

Happy birthday to me!

25 laps around the sun. A quarter of a century. Time for more fun! This year I’m choosing to focus on the good. There is so much love + light to be grateful for in this life. I couldn’t ask for a better support system to surround me, I live in a beautiful city with…

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