Rachel Armes-McLaughlin
@mother-poet.bsky.social
She/Her | Poet | 🏳️🌈 | ✊️
*🤩 Pushcart Nominated 2025 🤩*
My work is published in The Chaos Section, where I am poetry co-editor; Loblolly Press; Medicine & Meaning; and a Central Arkansas Library System anthology, with one poem nominated for Best of the Net.
*🤩 Pushcart Nominated 2025 🤩*
My work is published in The Chaos Section, where I am poetry co-editor; Loblolly Press; Medicine & Meaning; and a Central Arkansas Library System anthology, with one poem nominated for Best of the Net.
Pinned
Reposted by Rachel Armes-McLaughlin
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Stunning - words and image both ✨️
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Stunning - words and image both ✨️
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fall colors return
your brief flare of crimson joy
and time bows slightly
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #BlueskyPhotography #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #Nature #Autumn #BurningBush #Landscape #Pond #FallColors
your brief flare of crimson joy
and time bows slightly
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #BlueskyPhotography #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #Nature #Autumn #BurningBush #Landscape #Pond #FallColors
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
fall colors return
your brief flare of crimson joy
and time bows slightly
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #BlueskyPhotography #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #Nature #Autumn #BurningBush #Landscape #Pond #FallColors
your brief flare of crimson joy
and time bows slightly
#Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #BlueskyPhotography #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #Nature #Autumn #BurningBush #Landscape #Pond #FallColors
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November rose
#vermillion leaves
waiting for frost
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poem #poetry #photography
#vermillion leaves
waiting for frost
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poem #poetry #photography
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
November rose
#vermillion leaves
waiting for frost
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poem #poetry #photography
#vermillion leaves
waiting for frost
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poem #poetry #photography
Beautiful ✨️
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Beautiful ✨️
Thank you!!! 🥰
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Thank you!!! 🥰
*not my content*
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
*not my content*
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Yesterday was heavy for personal reasons. Nobody died, but I was given reasons to contemplate mortality. Still, there was beauty in that too. Memento mori.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Yesterday was heavy for personal reasons. Nobody died, but I was given reasons to contemplate mortality. Still, there was beauty in that too. Memento mori.
Right?! The name is so ironic. I do like some good death metal, too, sometimes. And thank you 💖
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Right?! The name is so ironic. I do like some good death metal, too, sometimes. And thank you 💖
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Woke to find you'd passed in the night--
Woke from mind's mist where you haunted the halls, paternal vengeance sought for imagined slights.
Woke to find you'd passed in the night--
Father gone, and a #wraith in my dreams.
#vss365 #prompt #poem #poet #poetry #photography #domesticviolence
Woke from mind's mist where you haunted the halls, paternal vengeance sought for imagined slights.
Woke to find you'd passed in the night--
Father gone, and a #wraith in my dreams.
#vss365 #prompt #poem #poet #poetry #photography #domesticviolence
May 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Woke to find you'd passed in the night--
Woke from mind's mist where you haunted the halls, paternal vengeance sought for imagined slights.
Woke to find you'd passed in the night--
Father gone, and a #wraith in my dreams.
#vss365 #prompt #poem #poet #poetry #photography #domesticviolence
Woke from mind's mist where you haunted the halls, paternal vengeance sought for imagined slights.
Woke to find you'd passed in the night--
Father gone, and a #wraith in my dreams.
#vss365 #prompt #poem #poet #poetry #photography #domesticviolence
Heard this song at my coffee shop. It reminds me of going to live across the country at 13 post-homelessness and all that came after. Thinking of my late parents and family in general, with the holidays upon us and today being the one year anniversary of my dad's death. #music is #poetry
Skullcrusher - Whatever Fits Together (Official Video)
YouTube video by SkullcrusherVEVO
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November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
You pretty 😊
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
You pretty 😊
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dark sky unravels
she weeps her worries to ground
in spring, they will bloom
#haikufeels #unravel #haiku #poem #poetry #photography
she weeps her worries to ground
in spring, they will bloom
#haikufeels #unravel #haiku #poem #poetry #photography
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
dark sky unravels
she weeps her worries to ground
in spring, they will bloom
#haikufeels #unravel #haiku #poem #poetry #photography
she weeps her worries to ground
in spring, they will bloom
#haikufeels #unravel #haiku #poem #poetry #photography
Reposted by Rachel Armes-McLaughlin
Gaslit
I didn’t say that
that never happened
you’re making that up
you must be going crazy
what’s wrong with you? Do you need meds?
your memory is just bad
you just want to be a victim
why do you always twist things?
I’m not the bad guy
that never happened
I didn’t say that
#blueskyrelay #poetry
I didn’t say that
that never happened
you’re making that up
you must be going crazy
what’s wrong with you? Do you need meds?
your memory is just bad
you just want to be a victim
why do you always twist things?
I’m not the bad guy
that never happened
I didn’t say that
#blueskyrelay #poetry
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Gaslit
I didn’t say that
that never happened
you’re making that up
you must be going crazy
what’s wrong with you? Do you need meds?
your memory is just bad
you just want to be a victim
why do you always twist things?
I’m not the bad guy
that never happened
I didn’t say that
#blueskyrelay #poetry
I didn’t say that
that never happened
you’re making that up
you must be going crazy
what’s wrong with you? Do you need meds?
your memory is just bad
you just want to be a victim
why do you always twist things?
I’m not the bad guy
that never happened
I didn’t say that
#blueskyrelay #poetry
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Why don’t you just leave?
Is hard to answer when you
Love your abuser
#Emoetry #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BlueSkyPoets #WriteSky #Poem #3Lines #Scrape #SkyPoets #HaikuCommunity
Is hard to answer when you
Love your abuser
#Emoetry #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BlueSkyPoets #WriteSky #Poem #3Lines #Scrape #SkyPoets #HaikuCommunity
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Why don’t you just leave?
Is hard to answer when you
Love your abuser
#Emoetry #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BlueSkyPoets #WriteSky #Poem #3Lines #Scrape #SkyPoets #HaikuCommunity
Is hard to answer when you
Love your abuser
#Emoetry #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BlueSkyPoets #WriteSky #Poem #3Lines #Scrape #SkyPoets #HaikuCommunity
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Reposted by Rachel Armes-McLaughlin
Autumn's Ascent
#blueskymonday #eastcoastkin #mountainmonday #photography #nature #art #scape #landscape #trees #autumn #fall #fortheloveoftrees #monday #bluesky #treescape #hiking #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #travel #nepal #photohour #naturephotography #landscapephotography
#blueskymonday #eastcoastkin #mountainmonday #photography #nature #art #scape #landscape #trees #autumn #fall #fortheloveoftrees #monday #bluesky #treescape #hiking #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #travel #nepal #photohour #naturephotography #landscapephotography
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Chuffed to monkeys is a new one for me. I am rolling 🤣
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Chuffed to monkeys is a new one for me. I am rolling 🤣
Re-sharing on the anniversary of his death today.
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Re-sharing on the anniversary of his death today.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I learned a new bird, thanks!! Also, "chuffed" is the best expression 😭 (signed, an American)
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I learned a new bird, thanks!! Also, "chuffed" is the best expression 😭 (signed, an American)
I believe it is a "cute" -- oh, sorry, I mean coot. 😆 (I had no idea what it was either, but I keep coming back to look at it because it is so striking)
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I believe it is a "cute" -- oh, sorry, I mean coot. 😆 (I had no idea what it was either, but I keep coming back to look at it because it is so striking)
Like, I can tell it is a white throated sparrow but I have never heard them make that song. It's sweet, and cheerier sounding than the usual one.
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Like, I can tell it is a white throated sparrow but I have never heard them make that song. It's sweet, and cheerier sounding than the usual one.
Ugh I just had the cutest #children 's #book idea. I'm sitting outside eating my breakfast like I often do, listening to the birds in the rain this morning. I hear a white throated sparrow that is singing an odd but beautiful song - it would make such a lovely metaphor for #neurodivergent kids 🧠 ✨️
a group of birds standing on a ledge with a gifbin.com watermark in the corner
ALT: a group of birds standing on a ledge with a gifbin.com watermark in the corner
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Ugh I just had the cutest #children 's #book idea. I'm sitting outside eating my breakfast like I often do, listening to the birds in the rain this morning. I hear a white throated sparrow that is singing an odd but beautiful song - it would make such a lovely metaphor for #neurodivergent kids 🧠 ✨️