Mezmur

Joined October 2018

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Rooted in Christian faith yet unafraid of human fragility, Mezmur writes as both survivor and worshipper. Her work invites readers to breathe again, to see that even in the deepest silence, Love remains.

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Porcelain Elephants. Top Story - February 2023.
This story was originally published 2 years ago. In Memory of T.M. The ashes arrived in a beautiful hand-carved wooden box. When I saw it, it was displayed next to a little porcelain figurine of a mother and son elephant.
By Mezmur4 days ago in Confessions
An Honest Question
There's an ache that comes over me in the quiet. Sometimes it hits in the middle of the day, when my toddler is sleeping and the others are in their bedrooms, playing or reading. Sometimes it happens in the moments before I open my eyes in the morning, but most times it happens at night. This ache urges me to reach out for a fix of something. Validation. Importance. Success.
By Mezmur18 days ago in Confessions
Tablecloths. Content Warning.
Some smells are etched in the mind like sweat mingled with IHOP pancake mix, or the ick after the kiss when I spat out some corn
By Mezmur20 days ago in Poets
Echoes . Top Story - September 2025.
The echoes sometimes come, when sleep won’t claim the eyes, at 1 AM when thoughts are drifting somewhere far. Songs ringing through his ear,
By Mezmur20 days ago in Poets
Spam Calls. Top Story - November 2025.
In the first year I picked up every spam call in hopes it might be you I'd say hello, and if there was any hesitation on the other line I would wait
By Mezmurabout a month ago in Poets
Mariposa . Top Story - January 2026.
A green cocoon hung from my grandfather’s bicycle. I watched, wide-eyed, as he whispered to me about what was happening in there.
By Mezmur2 months ago in Poets
The Fall
I can only imagine being the first man and woman on earth—Adam, laying his eyes on the perfect woman as the perfect man. Powerful. Gorgeous. Both. Intelligent. Adam, a wordsmith… God brought him each creature of the field and bird to be named, and whatever he named them, was their name. God trusted him with a big task, and Adam delivered. But for him there was no helper. No mate.
By Mezmur3 months ago in History
Astray
Is there a soft spot in your mind? That thought you avoid Because it makes you feel Something gentle Or kind?
By Mezmur3 months ago in Poets
Creation
At your command, light came into being Spoken syllables became substance, Sentences became species, and statements became stars.
By Mezmur4 months ago in Poets
I Forget That I'm Free
I forget that I’m free— That I don’t have to return to the shackles that bind me. That I can leave the open cell that held me.
By Mezmur4 months ago in Poets
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For Dani and everyone else who's ever felt like they had no voice. So maybe I romanticize my life. Maybe my head is full of dreams and my heart is full of the frustrating feeling that I’ll never arrive.
By Mezmur4 months ago in Poets
Mezmur
Before I opened my eyes, the word was in my mind— but I did not know its meaning. Mezmur. In the Ethiopian tongue it means:
By Mezmur5 months ago in Poets

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Porcelain Elephants. Top Story - February 2023.

An Honest Question

Tablecloths. Content Warning.

Echoes . Top Story - September 2025.

Spam Calls. Top Story - November 2025.

Mariposa . Top Story - January 2026.

The Fall

Astray

Creation

I Forget That I'm Free

Backspace

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