Jedidiah Jenkins

Jedidiah Jenkins

Poems I’ve Never Shared

Few things expose the heart like a poem.

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The Shaker by Jedidiah Jenkins
Feb 19, 2026
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I’ve been writing poetry since high school. Distilling emotion, experience, carnality, anything into tight words is a (difficult) joy. I hope to publish a book of my poems someday… but I’m giving some of them to you first. I hope you read these today, and it inspires you to write one poem this week. Even if you’ve never written a poem before. Pick a moment, pick a feeling, and write a short poem about it. Then you’ll have that little artifact, forever.

I wrote this one on Valentine’s Day. A little love poem. ;)

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