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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · May 30

Octavia Butler wrote this in her journal in 1988.
It wasn’t a wish — it was a plan.
Every line a spell. Almost all of it manifested.

(Writers, read this out loud. Then write your own.) ↓

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 11m

Our Poet of the Week is the critically-acclaimed confessional poet @richardsiken , whom we had the honor of interviewing — this thoughtful conversation between Karan and Richard is up NOW on onlypoems.com 💙

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 2h

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

—Leonard Cohen

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 21h

poetry prompt of the week: i've heard some of you are capable of loving in moderation. where it doesn't consume you completely. it's readable, without saying a word. can you imagine a first date where you could read their devotions in the slight of their hand or exhales? take us on your first date.

ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 1d

aha where all my writers at, this one's for you to feel seen! (and me too ߹𖥦߹ )

ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 3d

a reminder for those who hesitate to write or publish their most personal and vulnerable work: you ain't gotta explain shit to nobody if you don't want to. don't let the opinions of others keep you from expressing yourself through your creative ventures.

ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 4d

nth reason to love Albert Camus

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 4d

ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 5d

doing this new thing called "lingering way too fucking long in every doorway possible to give hints that i am — in fact, Yearning — and don't want anyone to ask quite yet but want others to Know That I Yearn"

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 6d

refer to this image for how writing and life is going this delightfully dreary october <3

ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

—Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 7d

poetry prompt of the week: love and grief — both of their hands littered with cuts and bruises, bandaged and wrapped up by the other, surprising to most, are intertwined. can you create a scene between their dynamic?

ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 8d

“Any day now I’m going to wake up angry enough to haunt you.”

Regina Avendaño

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 8d

fuck an "offline" status for work communication,,, where is my "emotionally a forgotten porcelain doll in the knick knack section of the thrift store rn"

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 10d

if i had a therapist they'd be hearing about this but my tattered-to-hell notebook WILL certainly get word of this

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 12d

you could consider me a lover. maybe. something very tender, certainly. something akin to a bruise.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 13d

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 13d

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 13d

professional make-stuff-upper, romanticizer, daydreamer, overqualified-for-a-straight-jacket-based-on-my-journal-alone-r, grocery list writer and shopper, and —

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 14d

poetry prompt of the week: you are the beast that you worship. detail the ritual and conditions it takes to summon yourself.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 15d

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 17d

My first ever grown chillies!!! What should I do with these? (Didn’t realize we’d have so many!)

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 17d

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