Poetry, reflections, and the occasional rap-leaning verse — written to be felt.https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/a-love-sublime/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/a-love-sublime/Four lines — the smallest possible draft of a wedding vow.Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/a-sliver-of-light/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/a-sliver-of-light/On the storms that don't end on schedule — and the small beam that shows up anyway.Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/a-spiral/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/a-spiral/On the version of love that doubles as a wound — and the cycle it traps you in.Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/addicted-to-validation/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/addicted-to-validation/On needing to hear it from someone else — and the long road of learning to believe it from inside.Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/age-of-information/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/age-of-information/On the irony of knowing everything and understanding less — and the part each of us plays.Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/algorithmic-identity/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/algorithmic-identity/On being shaped by the feed — and the slow erosion of decency it's costing all of us.Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/all-of-us-need-love/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/all-of-us-need-love/On the variety of how we hold pain — and the one thing we all hold in common.Wed, 22 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/always-beginning-anew/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/always-beginning-anew/On the and-also of being human — that two true things can sit in the same chest at once.Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/anticipations-heavy/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/anticipations-heavy/On the strange thing that happens to writers when they're at peace — and the loss of control that comes when the words finally arrive.Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/are-we-really-listening/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/are-we-really-listening/A companion piece to *That Anger, That Pain* — about the small lies we trade and the harder act of actually hearing each other.Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/are-you-listening/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/are-you-listening/A haiku on the quiet wisdom of the body — and the cost of ignoring it.Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/awakening-from-suffering/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/awakening-from-suffering/On the slow climb out — and the small mercy of the lessons that arrive along the way.Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/be-kind-to-yourself/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/be-kind-to-yourself/Three lines for the days when the ego is doing too much talking.Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/beauty-abound/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/beauty-abound/Three lines for the days when the news won't quit — and the small, stubborn fact that the beauty is still there.Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/begin-anew/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/begin-anew/Four lines that are also four mornings — the small inventory of an okay day starting.Thu, 08 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/bond-impossible-to-break/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/bond-impossible-to-break/On the soulmate as fresh air — and the kind of love that arrives feeling like physics.Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/connect-with-my-dad/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/connect-with-my-dad/On finding the keys, finding the song, and finding — late but not too late — a way back to the person who taught you both.Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/consistently-inconsistent/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/consistently-inconsistent/On the loops we keep running — and the small commitment to keep coming back to the work.Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/cosmic-connection/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/cosmic-connection/On the love that arrives without an explanation — and the small wisdom of not asking too many questions.Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/courage-to-be-kind/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/courage-to-be-kind/On legacy, kindness, and a mother's wisdom — that what people remember isn't what you said or did, but how you made them feel.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/cynically-optimistic/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/cynically-optimistic/On forgiving without forgetting — and listening to the small voice underneath.Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/deal-with-fate/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/deal-with-fate/On the questions that visit at 3am — about choice, consequence, and whether the wrong choice is still ours.Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/delicate-soul/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/delicate-soul/On feeling everything at full volume — and the small ask to be handled accordingly.Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/depths-we-have/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/depths-we-have/Three lines, written in Florence — on the strange privilege of being moved by people who don't exist.Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/did-we-have-the-choice/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/did-we-have-the-choice/On the rabbit hole of cause and effect — and the unsettling question of whether we ever really chose any of it.Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/distant-lands/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/distant-lands/Three lines for the kind of peace that only the unfamiliar can offer.Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/divided-yet-interconnected/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/divided-yet-interconnected/On the strange paradox of being more reachable and more isolated than ever — and the slow hope of healing.Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/do-we-ever-choose/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/do-we-ever-choose/Three lines for the unanswerable — and the small permission to leave the question open.Thu, 04 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/drenched-in-sweat/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/drenched-in-sweat/On the dream that wakes you up at 3am — and the small choice of what to do with it.Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/dust-off-the-boots/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/dust-off-the-boots/On returning to the path you already know is good for you — even after the rabbit hole.Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/each-season/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/each-season/On the slow loops of growth — and the breath that lets the next one begin.Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/embrace-the-storm/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/embrace-the-storm/On loneliness, the universal weather underneath it, and the quiet permission to feel it all.Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/eu-ainda-choro/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/eu-ainda-choro/A bilingual haiku — three lines about the heart that holds love and tears in the same hand.Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/even-if-you-forget-my-name/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/even-if-you-forget-my-name/On legacy — and the difference between being remembered and being felt.Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/every-day-is-a-new-beginning/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/every-day-is-a-new-beginning/On the New Year that arrives every morning — and the quiet truth that the journey is already underway.Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/faith-is-hard-to-keep/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/faith-is-hard-to-keep/Three lines for the days when belief asks more of you than the day has.Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/feelings-need-nourishment/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/feelings-need-nourishment/Four lines on the forest inside us — and the quiet rhythm of acting and pausing.Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/footsteps-of-jesus/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/footsteps-of-jesus/Four lines about the gap between what people call themselves and what they actually do.Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/forms-like-a-nuke-bomb/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/forms-like-a-nuke-bomb/Five bars built on cadence — and a few proper nouns the right people will recognize.Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/frozen-in-time/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/frozen-in-time/On old photographs, forgotten lives, and the strange tenderness of remembering people you've outgrown.Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/glimpse-of-peace/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/glimpse-of-peace/On the dream that ends just as you understood it — and the strange residue it leaves.Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/good-days/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/good-days/Three lines for the days that don't ask anything of you — they just flow.Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/hello-old-friend/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/hello-old-friend/On the parts of yourself you'd thought were gone — and the small joy of finding them still in there.Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-believe-in-fate/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-believe-in-fate/On the paradox of free will and destiny — and the quiet hope that, if it's all written, the writing is kind.Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-dont-belong-anywhere/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-dont-belong-anywhere/Four lines on the strange ache of feeling close to many people and home in none of them.Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-had-a-good-day/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-had-a-good-day/On the parallel weather of a planet — joy and grief unfolding at the same time, and the small grace of remembering.Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-have-just-begun/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-have-just-begun/Three lines of beginner's mind — humility as a daily practice.Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-hope-i-can-be-proud/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-hope-i-can-be-proud/On the quiet wish to like the person you become — and to have made some good in someone else along the way.Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-keep-failing/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-keep-failing/On the quiet fear inside trying again — that one day the trying might run out.Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-knew-it-was-you/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-knew-it-was-you/A haiku on recognition — the moment you meet someone and feel certain you've already known them somewhere before.Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-like-your-weird/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-like-your-weird/On the particular kind of love that's specifically pointed at the parts of someone nobody else has bothered to notice.Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-met-a-man/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-met-a-man/On hidden talent, the beauty most people miss, and how easily the most important things in our lives go unrecognized.Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-think-thats-what-love-is/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-think-thats-what-love-is/On the small re-orientation when someone else's emotional weather becomes part of yours.Mon, 04 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-wish-i-could-see/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/i-wish-i-could-see/On the human ache to know — what's coming, what it all means, and whether knowing would change anything at all.Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/if-i-loved-myself-sooner/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/if-i-loved-myself-sooner/Four lines for the alternate timeline — and the small permission to wonder, without staying there.Sat, 08 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/if-the-world-was-ending/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/if-the-world-was-ending/Four lines that ask one question — and whoever you picture is the answer.Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/if-you-had-my-eyes/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/if-you-had-my-eyes/On the ugly the mirror shows you — and the small, stubborn fact that the mirror is wrong.Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/ill-see-you-later/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/ill-see-you-later/Three lines for the friendships that never quite closed and never quite stayed.Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/im-glad-you-did-what-you-had-to/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/im-glad-you-did-what-you-had-to/On the chapters of a life — and the only thing you can really say to the past version of yourself.Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/imagine-yourself-a-pilot/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/imagine-yourself-a-pilot/An extended metaphor on the storms that arrive mid-flight — and the only direction available.Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/in-your-corner/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/in-your-corner/A letter in verse to the people I love — even the ones I haven't talked to in awhile.Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/is-art-not-a-part-of-us/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/is-art-not-a-part-of-us/On the songs and stories woven into us — and the small, sacred work of meditating on what moves you.Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/it-doesnt-take-much/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/it-doesnt-take-much/On what kids still know that we forgot — and the small price of remembering.Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/its-friday/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/its-friday/A small scene in the rain — and the strange weight of meeting a stranger's eyes for one second.Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/its-my-mental/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/its-my-mental/Six lines about the gap between how much we're hurting and how much anyone can see of it.Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/ive-got-myself-to-lean-on/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/ive-got-myself-to-lean-on/On the gratitude that arrives only after you've come through enough to see what made you.Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/know-the-difference/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/know-the-difference/On the hard-earned skill of telling real love from the things that wear its name.Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/live-presently/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/live-presently/Three lines for the moment that's still happening — before it becomes the memory you wish you'd been more in.Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/look-into-my-eyes/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/look-into-my-eyes/On contradictions, self-doubt, and the long practice of becoming someone you'd be proud to be.Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/love-in-spring/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/love-in-spring/Four lines for the kind of love that arrives like a season.Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/love-supreme/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/love-supreme/On the long shadow of being told you weren't enough — and the small dream of believing in love anyway.Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/loving-so-deeply/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/loving-so-deeply/Three lines for the kind of love that arrives feeling like a return.Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/many-soulmates/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/many-soulmates/A four-line reframe on the word *soulmate* — and the quiet permission inside it.Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/maybe-somehow/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/maybe-somehow/On the half-finished things — and the small, stubborn root that says *maybe still.*Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/meu-amor/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/meu-amor/A coffee-shop morning, a map on the wall, and a quiet decision that the where doesn't matter as much as the who.Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/namaste/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/namaste/On change, looking inward, and the quiet honor in greeting yourself the way you would a friend.Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/nightmares-are-dreams/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/nightmares-are-dreams/On the hard feelings — and the small, weirdly hopeful reminder that nightmares end the same way dreams do.Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/not-a-war-i-intend-to-lose/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/not-a-war-i-intend-to-lose/On the persistent thoughts that won't leave — and the slow, stubborn work of refusing to let them win.Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/nothing-permanent/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/nothing-permanent/Three lines for the freedom that arrives only after you've stopped trying to hold things still.Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/nothing-really-matters/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/nothing-really-matters/On the strange paradox of meaninglessness — and the deep capacity we have to make meaning anyway.Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/off-my-chest/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/off-my-chest/Six lines on why some thoughts only fit through verse — and what to do when normal sentences won't hold them.Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/oh-oliver/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/oh-oliver/A small love letter to the dog who keeps walking into the room and rearranging the day.Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/olhando-no-mar/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/olhando-no-mar/A bilingual haiku — a love seen first in Portuguese, then in English.Sat, 02 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/once-im-in-the-zone/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/once-im-in-the-zone/A bar about flow — when the writing stops needing oxygen and starts breathing for you.Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/past-this-life/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/past-this-life/Three lines for the love that doesn't expire when the rest of it does.Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/perfectly-imperfect/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/perfectly-imperfect/On the if-onlys we live with — and the quiet permission to be exactly the messy version we are.Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/poor-girl-i-thought/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/poor-girl-i-thought/A small scene observed from a distance — and the quiet hope of being wrong about it.Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/presence-in-the-present/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/presence-in-the-present/On the fleeting bliss of full presence — when the past and future fall away, and there's only now.Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/presently-dreaming/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/presently-dreaming/Three lines that fold the future into the present — and find them already touching.Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/pull-of-the-universe/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/pull-of-the-universe/On waves, destiny, and the quiet strength of being pulled toward what's meant for you.Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/respect-connect/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/respect-connect/Five lines about the simplest version of what we're all trying to find.Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/rhymes-and-beats/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/rhymes-and-beats/Short and sharp — the kind of bar that doesn't ask for breath. Four lines, one shot.Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/romantic-at-heart/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/romantic-at-heart/On the wanderer's curse — going so far in your dreams that you miss the oasis right in front of you.Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/running-helps-me-breathe/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/running-helps-me-breathe/On the strange medicine of putting one foot in front of the other — and how the body teaches things the mind keeps forgetting.Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/running-is-my-self-reflection/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/running-is-my-self-reflection/On running as practice — the one we don't always cherish, and the only one we won't always have.Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/seldom-speaking/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/seldom-speaking/On the loud, isolated, contradictory present — and the small refusal of it.Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/she-moved-me/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/she-moved-me/On the people we'll never see again — and the way they keep teaching us how to be.Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/silence-is-my-solitude/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/silence-is-my-solitude/On the quiet that gets mistaken for sadness — and the small peace of being misread on purpose.Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/silence-is-the-killer/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/silence-is-the-killer/On the corporate gloss sold as substance — and the quiet that lets it pass.Sat, 19 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/simple-things/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/simple-things/On the regret that arrives only after the simple things are gone — and the chance, if we get it, to do them differently.Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/slaves-to-unchanging-identities/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/slaves-to-unchanging-identities/On the chains we build out of who we used to be — and the storm that might be the only way to wash them off.Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/some-days/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/some-days/A list poem about the texture of a normal life — and the small surprise of opening your eyes.Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/sometimes-i-like-him/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/sometimes-i-like-him/Seven lines on the moving target that is the self in the mirror.Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/speak-freely/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/speak-freely/On the conversation you wish you'd had — and the small lesson we keep failing to learn from it.Sun, 09 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/spiritual-downpour/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/spiritual-downpour/On a hard rain, a regret-cleansing, and the strange grace of joining the sky in crying.Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/spreading-peace/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/spreading-peace/Six bars on poetry, peace, and breathing through the noise.Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/stand-tall/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/stand-tall/On the high seas and the calm ones — and the small, durable lesson that holds across both.Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/still-scared-to-crumble/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/still-scared-to-crumble/Three lines for the 3am questions — and the small honesty of admitting we're still scared anyway.Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/swimming-in-someone-elses-seas/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/swimming-in-someone-elses-seas/On the cost of people-pleasing — and the slow work of learning to swim in the seas that are actually yours.Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/symbolic-bars/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/symbolic-bars/Six lines of self-deprecating rap — owning the bit, swinging anyway.Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/take-a-breath/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/take-a-breath/Small acts of care, written down as instructions — because how fast life moves is rarely how fast we notice.Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/take-care-of-yourself/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/take-care-of-yourself/On the strange survival posture of always defending — and the small invitation to let go of it.Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/take-your-time-kid/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/take-your-time-kid/On the conversation between the calm self and the anxious one — and the small mercy of letting the past stay there.Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/that-anger-that-pain/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/that-anger-that-pain/On the refrain underneath the noise — how much of what we call anger is really just a child asking where they went.Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/the-dam-is-breaking/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/the-dam-is-breaking/On the long sleep of being your own worst enemy — and the slow, patient breaking that comes after.Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/the-meaning-of-life/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/the-meaning-of-life/Three lines for the question philosophers have spent millennia not quite answering.Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/the-sight-of-trees/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/the-sight-of-trees/On the particular peace that arrives in a forest — and the wish to one day share it with someone.Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/the-sound-of-rain/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/the-sound-of-rain/On the strange way time stretches and compresses — and the storms that briefly make you forget there was anything else.Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/they-dont-even-know/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/they-dont-even-know/On the secondhand weight of someone else's pain — and how care quietly carries it.Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/time-is-a-vessel/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/time-is-a-vessel/On time as both gift and thief — and the small, repeated hope underneath.Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/to-my-dear-friend/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/to-my-dear-friend/A letter in verse to someone who isn't here anymore — and a promise about what gets carried forward.Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/trends-and-themes/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/trends-and-themes/On the patterns underneath the days — and the small practice of trying to embrace them carefully.Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/truly-being-free/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/truly-being-free/On the candle and the hourglass — and the long question of whether the time was used the way it deserved.Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/two-complete-strangers/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/two-complete-strangers/On the small encounters that have no follow-up — and the strange, brief proof that the world is connected anyway.Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/two-souls/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/two-souls/On the love that arrives feeling like discovery — and the promise to be the one who shows up.Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/two-years-in/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/two-years-in/On two years of daily meditation — what it changed, what it didn't, and the quiet practice of accepting what comes.Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/under-water/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/under-water/Four lines on the particular peace of being submerged — and the small relief of returning.Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/until-i-cant/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/until-i-cant/Three lines of plain commitment — and a quiet acknowledgment that for some, the option isn't there.Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/until-i-met-you/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/until-i-met-you/Three lines. The whole shape of meeting someone who rewrites what you thought you knew.Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/walking-by-the-sea/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/walking-by-the-sea/On the particular peace of being alone with the ocean — and how solitude, on the right day, can feel like company.Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/warm-tea-and-yoga/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/warm-tea-and-yoga/Three lines for the small rituals that quietly do the heavy lifting.Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/warms-my-soul/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/warms-my-soul/On the writing that arrives without warning — and the only honest reason to keep doing it.Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/we-carry-a-torch/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/we-carry-a-torch/Written on a bridge in Florence, watching the Arno pass below — a meditation on what we carry forward and what we leave behind.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/we-only-get-one-shot/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/we-only-get-one-shot/On the boy who fell in the woods and the man who can't quite see the sky the same way anymore.Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/were-not-so-different/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/were-not-so-different/On the small, brave act of being honest with a stranger — and the recognition that comes back.Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/weve-become-one/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/weve-become-one/On the sand, the stars, and the small dissolution of the self that the right beach can deliver.Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/what-it-means-to-be-human/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/what-it-means-to-be-human/On the small, unselfish gestures — and the quiet realization of what they're actually for.Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/when-to-change-your-route/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/when-to-change-your-route/On the comfortable rut that's slowly becoming a tomb — and the awareness that lets you climb out.Sat, 22 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/where-time-stands-still/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/where-time-stands-still/A small ask of the world — to sweep us off our feet again, to a place where love can begin.Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/where-we-need-to-go/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/where-we-need-to-go/On wanting someone you love to grow with you — and the hard math when the paces don't match.Tue, 12 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/why-now-why-me/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/why-now-why-me/On finally meeting someone who actually means it — and the strange suspicion that follows.Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/without-you-by-my-side/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/without-you-by-my-side/Four short stanzas for the love that turns the impossible possible — and the absence that turns everything to nothing.Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/writer-who-doesnt-write/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/writer-who-doesnt-write/On the gift you keep promising to give yourself time for — and the slow ache of never quite getting there.Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/writing-helps-calm-me/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/writing-helps-calm-me/Three lines about the medicine you can't get anywhere else.Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/you-get-what-you-need/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/you-get-what-you-need/Three lines of dad wisdom — the kind that takes years to land.Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/your-own-beat/https://rhymes-and-poetry.jakethomasc28.workers.dev/blog/your-own-beat/On the modern weight of being constantly watched — and the courage it still takes to march to your own beat.Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT