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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Aug 29

But today I am
Just a sea
Trying to make
Peace with all the wreckage.

- Rudy Francisco

#poetry #poemaday #wreckage

Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Aug 24

It's the contrast I remember best.
The macabre and the serene.
Deep in grief for days and we never picked up the balloons.
The room was full of pinks and purples and a light tap tap tapping whenever we walked through.
Surreal, isn't it?
How life teases you?

#poem #OC #photography #grief #poetry

A 7 year old girl with blonde hair. Her face is painted like a skull in black and white. She's blowing up a yellow balloon with a smiley face on it and looking at the camera.

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Aug 16

.
So tired
And it feels hard as a fist,
My womb.
So eager to hold life
That it rends itself open
Under each full moon.
Pleading.

I'll be more delicate,
next time.

#poetry #poem #writer #writeaboutit
#original #period #fullmoon #miscarriage

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jul 20

"Poets are alchemists of nothingness"
Love that!

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Carolyn Marie Souaid @cmsouaid.bsky.social · Jul 20

“…our job is, in a way, to refuse to do what others find useful, in order to leave a space for other things to happen.” - Matthew Zapruder (Why Poetry)
#poetsofbluesky #blueskypoet ##poetrylovers #PoetrySky #bskypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #booksky #poems #poetry

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jul 4

Pain's Gravity"

Don't talk to me
About picking battles,
I am balancing
Daily.

My heartstrings taut
With the pull of each hurt
Tugging at me.

Woman on a
Goddamn wire,
I have to give in
Occasionally.

#poem #photography #poetry #writer #original
#gravity #poet #prose #poemaday #givein

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jul 4

Tangled up and drunk on sleeping in.
You say it's like a drug,
the morning light
dancing on my skin.

#poetry #originalphoto #photography #writer #sleepin #poemaday #monochrome #pictureandapoem

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jul 3

Can't you see it?
Beauty seeps into life
at the seams.
Rip at them.
Rend them open.

#poetry #poem #originalphoto #writer #beauty #ladybug #findbeauty #photography #bigsur #naturewalk #poemaday

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jun 20

Ode to my cat (who is now 10)

Frisco:
Knower of shadows,
Born for the night.
Scratcher of itches,
A witch's delight.
Thoughtful companion,
Eyes bursting of spring.
I'll be forever grateful,
that you've shared this life with me.

#blackcat #poem #catpoetry #cats #cateyes #poetry #ode #frisco

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jun 10

His voice rises and I can feel
My heart turn into a rabbit.
No sudden moves.

His fist hits the table and my heart jump jump jumps
into far off tall grasses.

Stay still, little bunny.
You can become invisible
until the fox moves on.

#poem #bunny #poetry #rabbitheart

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jun 4

There's this buzzing in my brain,
but I'm finding different ways
to hold myself,
still.
.
.
.
#poem #poetry #poemaday #writer #holdstill

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Apr 24

If I can be your clothes
I'll hang off all your bones
Every hour
Every day

- "Your Bones" by Mura Masa

#muramasa #yourbones #lyrics
#poetryinmotion

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Apr 2

My anxiety is a bird on my shoulder.
The shadow of a bird, really.
Becuase it can't sit still.
Its agitation blurs the very lines that try to define it.
A black cloud.
A pencil smudged across the paper.

I never look at it directly.
But maybe I should.

#poetry #poem #poemaday #writer #anxiety

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Mar 26

The last hug
you will get from someone you love
comes without warning.
It's a hug goodbye before
the trip that takes their life.
Or a casual embrace
some weeks before
your father's arms fall prey
to ALS.
What a gift it would be to know ahead of time.
You could squeeze that much harder.
#poem

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Mar 26

Maybe if I picture it
over and over and
over again,
It will come true.
Bending reality to my will.
What is reality anyway?
But a story we tell ourselves
over and over and
over again.

#poem #poetry #poemaday #newreality #writer
#musings #poet #photography #colors #vivid #overandover

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jan 30

All I want from you is a letter,
and to be your distant lover.

That is all that I can offer
at this time.

#lyrics #poetry #sylvanesso #music #quotes #distantlover

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jan 21

I was real. I was there.
We had burned ourselves through at the center.
Our eyes slid by each other,
Lived in limbo
Up, down, up and down again.
No one deviates from our rotaing
Piece of planet.
Only I hear the actual crumbling
Down of real life.

#blackout #poetry #collage #roguejournal #poem

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Jan 20

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jan 15

I used to know my bones
I could suck out the marrow to produce poems
and it would feel like healing

Now i've mastered the art of distractions
I maroon myself in mountain cabins
And still find ways to ignore

My bleeding heart

#poem #poetry #write #writer #poemaday

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jan 14

Screaming into
the void
over and
over and
over again.

Nothing ever changes.

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jan 14

It's easy to forget
The person I was
or am
or will be.

I get lost in the details
seperating you from me.

Unable to keep track of my own cells
as they change.

My god, this life is so strange.

#poetry #poem #whereiendandyoubegin
#parenthood #photography #family #hands

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jan 14

You click the headlamp off
and I stop midsentence
as the stars open up
around us.
We breathe deep.
Two warm bodies
in a lonely sea of grass.

I wish we could always be that close.

#poetry #poem #write #writer

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Gabriel Bauman @gabrielbauman.com · Jan 9

The wind slips beneath the orchard’s skin,
and all at once, the apples shudder-
a red so tender it spills itself,
aching toward the blade of a tongue.

#vss365 #sweet #poetsofbluesky #poem #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

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Samantha Writes @samaasy.bsky.social · Jan 9

I don’t think it’s fair
that you nestled in and forgot to try.
I don’t think its fair
that you never let me read a single thing you write.
I don’t think it’s fair
that you let me give you so much of myself only to tuck me away in some drawer in the dark,
and I always let you shine.
#poem #poetry

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