Magma Star
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Geologist and poet, author of 5 poetry collections.
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Episode 2: Kimberlite
âI was a diamond that didnât yet know it was the hardest material in the world. I thought my purpose was to be the âgood daughterâ and the âloyal girlfriend,â never suspecting that the tectonic plates of my life were just about to crack.â
By Magma Starabout 19 hours ago in Poets
The Architecture of Silence: An Engineerâs Blueprint for Peace in the Heart of Paris
In a world suffering from chronic noise, silence is often perceived as an emptinessâa lack of something. But for me, as an engineer who spent years studying the atomic structure of minerals, silence is something entirely different: it is the densest form of existence. It is not the absence of sound; it is a perfectly balanced vacuum. It is that specific, protected space where external chaotic pressure equalizes with internal strength, allowing the crystals of our soul to grow without fractures or flaws in their lattice.
By Magma Star14 days ago in Journal
Sediments of Joy
Sometimes all it takes is a second, a single flash on the screen, for the whole world we once knew to crash back into our present. Recently, while flipping through channels, I came across an image of that old, foot-operated air pump from the 1970s. Do you remember it? It was orange, made of ribbed plastic, somewhat unsightly, but in our childish eyes, it was the key that unlocked the summer. That specific soundâpfff-tack, pfff-tackâas we inflated beach mattresses on the hot sand, still rings in my ears.
By Magma Star16 days ago in Journal
