Oran Bailey
@thesinginglights.bsky.social
Aspiring diletantte: novelist, poet, essayist
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Hello Bluesky! I'm looking to connect with #WritingCommunity #Writers #Poets
I'm a poet who is aiming for what the Birmingham School of artists aimed for "a quest for the essential, the quiddity of what is observed". The purest essences of us as people. Lofty, true. Achieved? Not even close. (1/3)
I'm a poet who is aiming for what the Birmingham School of artists aimed for "a quest for the essential, the quiddity of what is observed". The purest essences of us as people. Lofty, true. Achieved? Not even close. (1/3)
thesinginglights.wordpress.com/2022/02/16/t...
Day 3 of posting poems to connect with #WritingCommunity
This was one of the earliest pieces I had done even though it's last and had many minor tweaks. The echoes of this were around 2016/17 where this photo was taken in Brighton.
#sonnets #poems
Day 3 of posting poems to connect with #WritingCommunity
This was one of the earliest pieces I had done even though it's last and had many minor tweaks. The echoes of this were around 2016/17 where this photo was taken in Brighton.
#sonnets #poems
Kings of the Deep – A Sonnet
Previous poem The sky was bruised because of winter’s kiss,hid lives fitted for the depths of the sea:A place where I am alone and in bliss(it is only in death when I am freed.) The wheel has turne…
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January 15, 2026 at 9:35 AM
thesinginglights.wordpress.com/2022/02/16/t...
Day 3 of posting poems to connect with #WritingCommunity
This was one of the earliest pieces I had done even though it's last and had many minor tweaks. The echoes of this were around 2016/17 where this photo was taken in Brighton.
#sonnets #poems
Day 3 of posting poems to connect with #WritingCommunity
This was one of the earliest pieces I had done even though it's last and had many minor tweaks. The echoes of this were around 2016/17 where this photo was taken in Brighton.
#sonnets #poems
thesinginglights.wordpress.com/2020/09/09/1...
Day 2 of posting poems to connect with #WritingCommunity #Poets #poetry
During my research, I found that inequality in the regions is actually as much cultural as it is economic and the latter feeds into the former.
Day 2 of posting poems to connect with #WritingCommunity #Poets #poetry
During my research, I found that inequality in the regions is actually as much cultural as it is economic and the latter feeds into the former.
14.) A Weary Wave, Live From The Central Throne
“Newton” The greatest that rise must now also fade.Ambition, unfettered, whose pace now slows;chained now, this city of a thousand trades—a place where only unemployment grows. My ink b…
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January 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
thesinginglights.wordpress.com/2020/09/09/1...
Day 2 of posting poems to connect with #WritingCommunity #Poets #poetry
During my research, I found that inequality in the regions is actually as much cultural as it is economic and the latter feeds into the former.
Day 2 of posting poems to connect with #WritingCommunity #Poets #poetry
During my research, I found that inequality in the regions is actually as much cultural as it is economic and the latter feeds into the former.
Hello Bluesky! I'm looking to connect with #WritingCommunity #Writers #Poets
I'm a poet who is aiming for what the Birmingham School of artists aimed for "a quest for the essential, the quiddity of what is observed". The purest essences of us as people. Lofty, true. Achieved? Not even close. (1/3)
I'm a poet who is aiming for what the Birmingham School of artists aimed for "a quest for the essential, the quiddity of what is observed". The purest essences of us as people. Lofty, true. Achieved? Not even close. (1/3)
January 13, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Hello Bluesky! I'm looking to connect with #WritingCommunity #Writers #Poets
I'm a poet who is aiming for what the Birmingham School of artists aimed for "a quest for the essential, the quiddity of what is observed". The purest essences of us as people. Lofty, true. Achieved? Not even close. (1/3)
I'm a poet who is aiming for what the Birmingham School of artists aimed for "a quest for the essential, the quiddity of what is observed". The purest essences of us as people. Lofty, true. Achieved? Not even close. (1/3)