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Anne-Marie Silbiger

@happimess73.bsky.social

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Published poet and professional cat sitter from Limerick, Ireland. Neurodivergent & proud. Founder of W.A.N.G. Walthamstow Adults Neurodivergent Group. https://www.threads.net/@happimess73 https://linktr.ee/happimess73

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 1d

Mind Games, The Ups and Downs of Life and Football.
With poetry by @happimess73.bsky.social

Listen to Mind Games by Neville Southall on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/000840376...

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 1d

I have my father's heart

(inspired by John Candy)

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#johncandy
#ryanreynolds
#poetry
#poetrycommunity

I have my father's heart.
So, I watch my steps.
I sit in nature.
I let go.
I have my father's heart.
So, I listen for warning.
Rudely alive.
I plead for more time.
I have my father's heart.
So, I play in nature.
I love her, Earth.
I let go.

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes, really lovely things happen to me.
I am learning to let these lovely things in.

#traumasurvivor

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 4h

Please put the Kindle down and stick on Audible or something.
My nerves.

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 11h

Teenage me

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 21h

Listen to love's loss by Anne-Marie Silbiger on #SoundCloud
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Love's Loss

Shirking responsibility.
Bathing in foolish want.
Lounging in dreams.
Eyes blazing in unison.
A sighing universal.
Walking to walk.
Breathing to breathe.
Waking to each new dawn.
With...

love's loss

love's loss is about the love I shared with my husband who died in 2019

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 23h

Still thinking about John Candy

and the docu on prime

it was beautiful

HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 2d

Happy bawl your eyes out day

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 1d

Mind Games, The Ups and Downs of Life and Football.
With poetry by @happimess73.bsky.social

Listen to Mind Games by Neville Southall on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/000840376...

Audible

Try Audible free for 30 days! Start listening to best-selling audiobooks, exclusive Originals, and free podcasts with the Audible app.

www.audible.co.uk

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 1d

I have my father's heart

(inspired by John Candy)

@happimess73.bsky.social

#johncandy
#ryanreynolds
#poetry
#poetrycommunity

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 1d

What a voice

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 1d

@happytoast.co.uk

Thank you for posting about John Candy on Amazon.
I just finished watching it.
Utterly beautiful.

Gonna watch Spaceballs again.

a man wearing a wig and a patch on his shirt is sitting in a chair with his face painted like a dog .

Alt: a man wearing a wig and a patch on his shirt is sitting in a chair with his face painted like a dog . from fillm, Spaceballs

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

Steve is the prize.

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

I did a paid spoken word gig last year.
That was it.
Haha.

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

Sugar, I'll be bawling this evening, so.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 2d

Happy bawl your eyes out day

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

'hames' one of my favourite words

what is forward prize?

(disconnected poet)

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

Her

#worldmentalhealthday
#Neurodivergent
#healing
#poetry
#poetrycommunity

Her

I'm serious when I say,
I'm falling in love with her.
Unkempt of mind.
Topsy-turvy tales of unimaginable wonder and woe drop like multi-coloured sweet wrappers.
A sharp wit always waiting in the wings.
Limbs longing to languish or giving chase to clouds.
Compassion so painfully attuned, it hurts her.

Anne-Marie Silbiger

(unfinished)

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All Good Bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk · 2d

Honestly, it's been a bit of a quieter week or two than would be... ideal. If there's a book that's on your mind, we'd love it if you bought it from us! Email us, DM us, etc.

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

#worldmentalhealthday
#poetry
#Neurodivergent

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

Dear Departure, 1993

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Dear Departure, 1993 Anne-Marie Silbiger

With the past on my back
Home is hell now
Fear frolics in my belly
The death of my future here sealed
Mother, grabbing me then
Cradling my head, grieving
Into my chest she wails words of sorrow
A diaspora of me
Dispersing to live
A blank canvas for
All manner of gallivanting
Road sea and air
Signalling me to flee

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 What would an organic machine, for giving birth to ideas, look like?

Breaking Free (2016) | Original pen & ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan [1]

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

Hello,

New customer!

Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan?

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

#worldmentalhealthday
#healing
#poetry
#Neurodivergent

Listen to After You Died by Anne-Marie Silbiger on #SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/PltQOJR80zHW...

After you died

Irish poet in London. I've worked with Neville Southall for Huck Magazine. I'm also in his recent book. Mind Games, The Ups and Downs of life and football. It's on Audible if you'd like to hear Nev

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 3d

There were loads of mushrooms on lunchtime walk.

All pics: om1+30mm macro lens - 16 images stacked for each.

Thread.

#mushrooms #fungi

Gills of a translucent white mushroom from underneath.

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Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, so beautiful

Anne-Marie Silbiger @happimess73.bsky.social · 2d

Dear Departure, 1993

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