RACHEL CHIDESTER is a native of Utah who gained interest in poetry as a teenager in high school while looking for her voice. Poetry Coach Chris Atkin got her into the competitive scene. After graduating from The New York Institute of Art and Design, Rachel joined Utah Poetry Slam, Rocky Mountain Poets, and Utah State Poetry Society to pursue her love of poetry and competition. She will be representing Utah while competing on a national stage in the Blackberry Peach National Prizes for Poetry: Spoken and Heard this coming October in Daytona Beach, Florida. (For more info, see https://www.nfsps.com/BBP3Guidelines.html)
Her first chatbook The Cost of Living in Utah is Good Poetry has been published and will be available at Amazon. Rachel is also a locally awarded Visual Artist & an awarded Civic Engagement Advocate. Welcome to our group.
HUMILITY by Rachel Chidester
Humility is the butterfly we catch as children
And crush its wings
In an effort to play.
But it's the only way
to metamorphose
into peaceful creatures.
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