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Writer. Author. Poet
Hi, I’m Itunu, pronounced e-too-nu
I started writing again when I needed somewhere to put the things I couldn't say out loud, and somewhere between the poetry, prose, and the pages of my journal, I began finding my way back to myself.
Build to Bloom is a space for using words to reflect, heal, and make sense of the messy, beautiful work of being human.
If you're looking for somewhere to pause, feel, reflect, or simply find the words for what you've been carrying, you're in the right place.
For wherever you are, there's a page waiting for you.
Like a garden, becoming asks for many things: tenderness, patience, pruning, and the courage to begin again.
These poems are for anyone who has ever loved deeply, lost painfully, and discovered that even after everything, something inside them is still willing to try again.
Perhaps the miracle of becoming is that
after all the seasons that tried to undo you,
you are still here.
And the garden is you.
A friend once asked me how it feels to be in a creative slump. Although I tried to put my thoughts into words, I still struggled to articulate my feelings. A creative slump is a miserable place to be. Not only because you’re not doing what you’ve always loved to do, or perhaps what God has called you to, but because you’re imprisoned by thoughts that question your creative ability and leave you disabled in the process.