The Next Line

Jeremy Limn
3 min readMay 22, 2024

I am often surprised that I can write another line. I have always felt that my life could end at any moment, and I do not fear death I welcome it to be honest. But over the years I have felt that when a poem comes to me that it is luck, and I take advantage of that luck.

My writing began many moons ago when, I was studying to be come a pastor. It was from the bible that I gained an experience that you could call divine. It began with me jotting down my thoughts in a tidy little journal that I took to my pilgrimages to Uluru. At that time I always was emotionally inexperienced meaning that my emotional instability came from my unwillingness to share what was going within myself.

Getting back to my biblical experience as it is more relevant to me as a writer, poet, and philosopher. Reading the book of Isaiah and the psalms of King David elevated my connection to the universe, and nature itself.

After my separation from the church and my inevitable path to existential nihilism poetry became more relevant, I kept on getting lines and lines idea after idea, and I just couldn’t stop writing poetry at the beginning in one month I wrote 500 poems, and I even challenged myself to do more it was death, or writing I had no other choice this time I was going to tackle it.

I was going to be a big soccer player when, I was younger I played soccer for the…

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Jeremy Limn

Writerholic, poet, copywriter, Brand Orientated Thinker, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Advocate, Wiradjuri Man.