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Malik Jones

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Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · 10d

Days be like that sometimes 🫠
*shrugs*
But not all of them 😊

Stay creative #poetry #poetrylovers #indielit

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · 17d

🌸 Technically weeds, but I think forget-me-nots are my favorite flower (just above night sky petunias). When they started blooming along my walk to the bus stop as a kid, it meant school was almost out.

(As You Were pg.3)
#poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #indielit

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Sep 11

☕ I would never actually add cream...
I like my hearts like I like my coffee.🖤
(As You Were pg.18/19)
#poem #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚀 ☄️Anywhere but here
#poem #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Sep 7

🖤Prompt: "What the earth knows about me"
Doesn't he look cute? (sad)

Thanks to The Page Gallery for hosting their Shared Ground Poetry Competition! It was an excellent excuse to skip a prose editing session and pick up the quill (drafting pencil) for a night

#poetry #poetrylovers #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Sep 5

🍯 🐝 The sweetest words are bitter
As promised, yet another Full Poem Friday
(As You Were pg.12) #poem #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Sep 1

🐝 🍯 A honeycomb curse 🍯 🐝
Watch this space for the full poem on Friday...
(Hex, As You Were pg.12) #poem #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Aug 29

A full poem? On a Friday? Insanity.
#poetry #poem #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Aug 25

The opiate for the poet.
#poetry #poem #writing
(Buying Flowers For My Ghosts, As You Were pg.1)

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Aug 22

⚛️ Quantum quantum quantum this Full Poem Friday
(As You Were pg.26) #poem #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Aug 18

Helpless.
(Butcher Bird, As You Were pg.28) #poem #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Aug 15

🕶️ An unnatural phenomenon
Don't call it Instapoetry, this is Full-Poem-Friday
(As You Were, pg.11)

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Aug 11

🫀 💛 Least favorite organ ngl
(Heart of Gold, As You Were pg.31) #poem #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Aug 8

🖤 🌍 We must look so silly from afar
Stay tuned for more Full-Poem-Fridays
(As You Were, pg.36) #poetry #poem #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Aug 4

☕ To start my day with you
(As You Were, pg.18) #poem #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Aug 1

📜 🪶 It's FPF time again
(As You Were, pg. 52) #poem #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Aug 1

🫡"Hurry up and wait."
*hurries*
*pulls out a book of poetry*
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #WritingCommunity

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Jul 28

🐺 🖤 Inside you there is one wolf, it is lonely.
(As You Were, pg.39) #poem #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Jul 25

🪶 📜 Another Full-Poem-Friday🪶 📜
(As You Were, pg. 18) #poetry #poem #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Jul 21

🌍 🐍
(Offworlder, As You Were pg.36) #poetry #poem #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Jul 18

🪶 Full-Poem-Friday🪶
(As You Were, pg. 14) #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Jul 14

🌹🖤 Words like roses🖤 🌹
(As You Were, pg. 39) #poetry #writing

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Jul 11

Growing up is overrated
Growing apart is overburdening #poetry

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Jul 9

☠️ Does Polly want a cracker?☠️

Malik Jones @malikjonespoetry.bsky.social · Jul 7

I swear I'm not the Grinch...
(poem - Black Hole Shadow) #poetry