Poetry by Jul
Performance: Poetry and Fleeting Thoughts named as #1 Best Seller in the following Amazon categories: Contemporary Poetry and Poetry Discussing Death
Named #1 New Release on Amazon in the following categories: Poetry, Women’s Poetry, Poetry about Love, Love and Erotica Poetry, Contemporary, Poetry Subjects and Themes, Poetry Discussing Death, Body Image, and Inspirational
Jul’s Poetry Debut
Performance: Poetry and Fleeting Thoughts
How do we not notice
that we are all characters in each others’ shows?
We bow every night
when we shut the door to our homes
“What a performance,”
our friends will clap and say
The world is getting too good at this
It’s become okay that we are all just inviting people to a play
Take your seats
as the princess steals the show
She will tell you a story
that most people don’t know
If alarms didn’t exist, I’m afraid I would never wake up.
Performance: Poetry and Fleeting Thoughts captures moments of despair, insecurity, and wisdom through poems, songs, and drawings. In her debut collection, Jul pulls back the curtain and invites the reader on her path of growth, sharing intimate experiences of grief, jealousy, anger, and heartbreak. Inside these pages, readers will delve into how we all put on a performance when we feel like we can’t act as our most authentic selves, highlighting the reality of healing, empowerment, and acceptance. Performance takes readers through a journey of raw emotions and growing pains that many of us face, and illustrates how, although vulnerability is difficult, it is ultimately the key to getting back up over and over again, and choosing yourself.
Julia Ruggiero, poetry pen name Jul, is a professional speaker, marketer, and the author of VulnerABLE: How to Notice the Power of Vulnerability Through Lettuce, Laundry, and Love. A graduate from John Carroll University with concentrations in integrated marketing, communications, and leadership development, her passions include learning and speaking about leadership, student entrepreneurship, and mental health awareness, as well as creating content on how humans can better connect and communicate in times of conflict and division.
