For once, I want eight great days all lined up in a row ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 📖 This poem is from the section about depression in my mental health poetry book 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrybook

Poetry prompt: Write a poem about an object covered in dust. #poets #poetryprompt #poetryprompts

Poetry prompt: Write about a time when you experienced a strong emotion that came and went very suddenly. #poets #poetryprompt #poetryprompts

A #poem for anyone who needs a reset

Poetry prompt: Pick a word that has 2 different meanings and incorporate both into a poem. #poetryprompts #poetry #poetryprompt

Poetry prompt: Write a poem about someone you haven’t talked to in years. #poetry #poetryprompt #poetryprompts

Poetry prompt: Use the following words in a poem: fate, marble, flood. #poetry #poetryprompt #poetryprompts

A #poem about rumination

Poetry prompt: Write a poem about a mundane task like folding laundry, washing dishes, paying bills, etc. #poetry #poetryprompts #poetryprompt

Poetry prompt: Write a poem about meeting your childhood best friend. #poet #poetry #poetryprompt

Poetry prompt: Write about drowning in something other than water. #poets #poetry #poet

For the ones who dream of running away ✈️🌍⁣ #lovepoem #poetry #lovepoetry

This is one of my favorite shorter #poems from my book "Grey Matters." When I write about mental illness, I like to focus on things that are difficult to put into words. For this poem, it’s the feeling of numbness. ⁣ ⁣ Have you ever felt this way?

a #poem about what anxiety feels like

a #poem about loving someone you can’t be with

a #poem about the importance of acknowledging how far you’ve come

a #poem about outgrowing someone

a #poem about the feelings of guilt that can come with depression

a #poem about a doomed relationship

a #poem for anyone who struggles with setting boundaries

A #poem for hopeless romantics

a #poem about allowing yourself to take up space

If you’ve outgrown your old self, this #poem is for you ❤️‍🩹⁣

a #poem about celebrating small victories

Feminine rage, but make it 🧙‍♀️🐦‍⬛🌱🦷 I really like ambiguous endings 🖤 #poetry #poem #newpoem

📚: Tidal Pools and Other Small Infinities by Kristen Costello #poetry #poem #poems

first new poem I’ve written in over a year #poetry #poem #poems

Is this progress? 🤔 #poem

Wondering if I should leap #poetry #poems #poem

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Today, I’ve become a butterfly uprising – black and orange, pink and white, a flutter of fervor a flurry of flight. -Cracking Cocoons #poems #poetry #poem

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I’m not angry, just tired #poetry #poem #poems

I watered all the flowers except for me and wondered why I wilted. - Pouring #poem #micropoetry #poems

From Billy Collins's book, The Apple That Astonished Paris: bookshop.org/a/862/978155... #poem #poetry #billycollins #books

“I’m rendered sightless by sun” #poetry #poems #poem

I don’t regret you, but I wish I did #poetry #poem #poems

The Wanderers #poetry #lovepoem #poem

"In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be."

A poem about consumerism and anxiety that I wrote around the time of Omnicron #poetry #anxiety #poem

Hi! I’d love to create a starter pack to connect poets and poetry lovers. Please let me know if you’d like to join— I need at least 7 people to make one. #poets #poetry #writtenword #poetsky #writers

A poem about celebrating small victories from “Grey Matters,” my mental health poetry book #poem #mentalhealth #poetrybook

My first starter pack for Indie Poets! Please pass this along and reach out if you'd like to be included 😊 #poetry #indiepoets #poets #poet go.bsky.app/Laz8hex

I seemed to have misplaced my sense of purpose for a couple years – but it’s okay, I came across it the other day when I was cleaning out my purse. A part of me always knew where it was – I just needed to find the courage to brush off my dust and begin again. -Lost and Found #poem #poetry

Aren't you

From Mary Oliver

Poem for today. From @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's book, Good Bones: bookshop.org/a/862/978194... #poetry #books #maggiesmith #writing

Another day, another daze. Eyes forward, eyes open without sight. I am driftwood – rootless, random. Ruthless routine. Nothing. Feels. Appealing. -Numb #poetry #poem #sadpoetry

I am melting but I’ve decided not to step away from the sun. I was forced into this mold by rough, red hands, but it’s time to let my wax liquefy so I can reform into the shape I choose. -Icarus #poetry #poem #poems

Today, I’ve become a butterfly uprising – black and orange, pink and white, a flutter of fervor a flurry of flight. -Cracking Cocoons #poetry #poem #poems