Latest posts tagged with #LitPub on Bluesky
"...Complacency fled like winter sleet melted,
with the glint of a knife, on that coal black night..."
Inner city news by John E Marks medium.com/the-mad-rive...
#poetry and #music in The Mad River #litpub & #poetrycommunity
#share a #poem this #poetrymonth and all the other months
"...As we row along the rocky shore
The waters are deep, but the past
Keeps seeping from the ocean floor
Lakes full of dreams have set me adrift
Inside my mind forever..."
Enchantment by Richard Grahn medium.com/lit-up/encha...
#poetrymonth in Lit Up #litpub
#read and #share #poetry
"...prayer
is a primal yowl, a guttural
thrumming, the gathering voice
of a generation’s psalm
Prayer is what you weave into your art,
a tapestry of amens..."
Sage Advice by Jen Smat medium.com/lit-up/sage-... #ekphrastic #poetry in Lit Up #litpub & #poetrycommunity
#read #share #poems #poetrymonth
"If I die tomorrow,
my mother will hear it before anyone ever tells her.
In the way the morning refuses to arrive;
in the way the house forgets how to breathe—
something inside her will break..." #poetry by Fatmaha Lindawati medium.com/lit-up/if-i-... in the Lit Up press #litpub & #poetrycommunity
"Orange
filled the sky
and no one argued
too yellow
or too red..."
Sunsets Are Not Political by Jen Smat medium.com/lit-up/sunse... #poetry in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"You say I don’t believe in anything
Because I don’t pray to the old gods,
Or the new ones
I don’t credit every tragedy
As serving a higher purpose
I don’t look to the sky to save me
From manmade violence..."
#poetry by Crystal Jackson medium.com/lit-up/you-s... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub
"...How acolytes crawled on septicemic shards of glass for
One lick
Of libidinous lips hexing their appellation..."
Heterozygous by Edward Swafford medium.com/lit-up/heter... #poetry #LGBTQ in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Support #poets #readandshare #poems
"...How hideous I am, in my perennial outfit of pond scum. Green and flat and dull..."
I Am a Retention Pond by Leni Quinn medium.com/lit-up/i-am-... strange #fiction in the Lit Up press #litpub & #readingcommunity
#read and share a #story today
"In a quiet room
where colors flowed,
the patients painted
words unspoken,
judgment-free..."
Through art, their souls knew
Art Therapy by @mftulin.bsky.social medium.com/lit-up/art-t... #poetry #arttherapy #healing in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"He shines like the sun,
smiles like there’s too much brightness
inside him
to contain the damage..."
In Between The Sheets by No Blabs medium.com/lit-up/in-be... #poetry in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
sharing #poems feeds souls
"...I worked until my hands learned its shape,
And every morning I offer the best of myself,
Like a gift wrapped in routine..."
The Gilded Leash by Adedokun Eniola medium.com/lit-up/the-g...
#poetry #belonging #wageslave in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
“...On the floor interrupting that flow lies a man. You’d be hard pressed to identify him…”
Little Sister
a dark #story from Martyn Sullivan medium.com/lit-up/littl... #horror #fiction in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
"Shelly nearly falls down the last three rungs of the ladder. She slips to the ground, stumbles across the dirty floor..."
#scifi #drama #fiction and #poetry all rolled together in the latest episode
MITChell by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/lit-up/mitch...
in Lit Up #readingcommunity #litpub
"The power lines hang in a lazy arc. The front door had no path, and you blaze a trail through the grass, feeling the spiderwebs against your ankles..."
You drew the short straw...
The Hoard by Lay Low Magazine medium.com/lit-up/the-h...
#fiction in the Lit Up press #litpub & #readingcommunity
"...No grasp
of dreams
a ghost
can grab..."
Just Dead by Chad Parenteau medium.com/lit-up/just-... #poetry #micropoetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
sharing a #poem a day helps poets believe their words are read
"I had a dream
everything in our world was pink.
Even the men..."
A Pink World by No Blabs medium.com/lit-up/a-pin... #poetry #micropoetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"...Sweet white flowers above
Rain drops cling to petals, wet wings;
Mist in the garden hides you
As I whisper my absence of you..."
Lifting the Veil by John E Marks medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #music #haiga in The Mad River #litpub
#read and share a #poem today and make a poet almost smile
"...I’d put the car back in drive and was about to pull away from the curb that I saw a form move behind the curtain..."
Their Zoom Selves Were Peering Out From Between The Curtains by Leni Quinn medium.com/lit-up/their... #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
"I miss you a little extra on the days I achieve something.
Not only in the dark hours,
when the room feels smaller than my thoughts..."
I Miss You in My Light Too by Khushbu Gehlot medium.com/lit-up/i-mis...
#poetry of #loss and #love in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"they say
when you die
and come back
somehow
you’re no longer
afraid
of anything...
Fear of Dying by Ben Human medium.com/lit-up/fear-...
#poetry of #dying in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
sharing a #poem a day helps poets work, rest, and not starve so much in a garret :)
"...The soul sings. Mourns us to the other us. This race must be run, but cannot be won, but you will be beautiful forever..."
Pentimenti by Ken Kawaji medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #loss in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"The relic tree of Odin, and Chopin’s Funeral March, fade from the inevitable gaiety of the lost cause, a bloody pause. Victory smells herself on his hands, his lips..."
The Secretary of War by Ken Kawaji medium.com/lit-up/the-s... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub & #poetrycommunity
share a #poem today
"My father came to visit while on my walk today,
He flew down swiftly on the wings of a blue jay,
He sang me a song, both sweet and strong..."
A Spirited Saunter by Michael Lahoue medium.com/lit-up/a-spi... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"My father came to visit while on my walk today,
He flew down swiftly on the wings of a blue jay,
He sang me a song, both sweet and strong..."
A Spirited Saunter by Michael Lahoue medium.com/lit-up/a-spi... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"A flash of remembrance on a throw away day
The crumbling of memory, time fades away..."
ALIEN NATION by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/alien... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"The skunk in the road is a holy thing
now: its glamorous body cracked
like a dragon’s dropped egg
unveils a rotten yolk..."
Skunked by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity
#poetrylovers come #read and share a #poem today...
"...If you truly want it,
you can build it all
— your own empire of dirt..."
Built To Crumble by No Blabs medium.com/lit-up/built... #poetry in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
#poetrylovers come #read and share a #poem today...
"In living violently;
an unnamed apology;
epoxy poured over seizing flowers,
slippery stones not yet skipped in the river,
my whole incentive for life is raging..."
Lemons by Anna Rozwadowska medium.com/lit-up/lemon...
#read #poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"You have a memory, or a fragment of one. Strangely persistent, it tugs at you like a kite string..."
I, The Ghost of a Long-Gone Radio Shack, Am Haunting This Mattress Store by Leni Quinn medium.com/lit-up/i-the...
#fiction #flashfiction in the Lit Up Press #litpub & #readingcommunity
"Listen,
please, I know how this will sound, but
Shelly, please believe me..."
Drop in for an extra specially meaty episode of MITChell by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/lit-up/mitch... #fiction #serialfiction #scifi #poetry in Lit Up #litpub & #readingcommunity (catch up links in story)
