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The School of Life

By Erynn Crittenden
January 29, 2024
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Where are the souls that courageously yearn
To make the most out of this diverse life
Full of love and beauty, envy and strife
And find power in the lessons we learn
Sometimes too tangled for us to discern
Which of those feelings could cut like a knife
When played like the notes on Fate’s silver fife
While we seek to spread our knowledge in turn

But life is often the cruelest of schools
Teaching us lessons we never should know
Spinning us into emotional spools
Before surprising us with a strong blow
And though we often resemble the fools
We’ll look through the storm and seek the rainbow

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Erynn Crittenden

Erynn Crittenden has written poetry since she could hold a pen. This love prompted her to earn a BA in Creative Writing, where she learned how to experiment with syllables and styles. Since then, Erynn has self-published three poetry collections (By the Bones, Transfiguration, and Into the Western Sky) through Amazon. She also writes and publishes plenty of individual poems on her website, and her work has appeared in the Talon Literary Magazine, the Beautiful Poetry anthology by Silent Sparks Press, the #AmWriting anthology by the Wayne Foundation, and Life Blood: A Collection of Vampire Tales by Gary Hill. Erynn is also the creator and host of the Present Poetry Podcast, where she reads and celebrates a different poet every week. Find it and the rest of her works by visiting her website at LadyErynn.com.

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