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Victoria Melekian

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Writer, quilter, person who practices piano. "The Accidental Courage of Our Lives" forthcoming from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in late 2025. https://victoriamelekian.com/

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you for publishing my poems:)

SHINE Poetry @shinepoetry.bsky.social · 17d

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you for this delight. I'm honored.

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats to our amazing Best of the Net '26 candidates. We send your ballots off with all our digits crossed! #pocketyasheck

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 23

“Fading to shush” — nice!!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 23

Obviously:)

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thank you!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thank you for reading and commenting on my poem!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 22

Wow!! Love it!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 22

Nice!

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 22

This is lovely!

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 22

Yes!!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 20

You’re so right!! Thanks for reading.

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 20

Absolutely wonderful. Love this!

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 20

This is so so beautiful.

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thank you! And thanks for reading and commenting🤗

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 20

Good morning, @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Here's my #transitions poem for #PoemsAbout

Poem, Creating a Path to Harmony

Should have been simple—
buy decomposed granite the color of dirt

and some dark rocks, but he came home
with light-hued pebbles and stones

that the girl at the store told him
would be pretty when wet,

"Which means," I said, "they'll be beautiful
twenty-one days a year," to which he replied,

"Next time get them yourself."
I was annoyed and so was he, but we raked

and tamped dirt, spread the rocks, all
one thousand pounds, and shaped

an inviting path toward the front door.
And when it rains, the rocks are very pretty.

Sometimes my husband sprays them
with a hose. And then they are beautiful.

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 9

My #LifttotheSky goes to @mavismoog.bsky.social who leaves me lovely encouraging comments on my posts. Check out her most recent poems—full of humanity, clever and funny.

Thank you, @alanparry83.bsky.social and @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for this community.

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thank you for reading and commenting!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 6

Nicely weird!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 6

Love this!!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 6

Lovely!

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 6

Wonderful!!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thank you for reading and commenting!!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 6

Good morning, @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #PoemsAbout #Spectacle

My poem was published in "Autumn Sky Poetry Daily" some years ago. It's what I think of when I hear the word spectacle.

Poem Hallelujah This Sky
Working downtown today, clouds
in every window of the high rise
across the way: big white ones
vast enough to house God

and sweet baby Jesus, all of heaven's
angels and saints. I'm telling you,
it's a miracle sky, sky in a Bible,
sky so gorgeous it can fix anything

that ails you, and it's reflected
in every single window
on all twenty-four floors of the building
across from me, a colossal glass cloud

there to behold. The attorneys drone:
question, answer question, answer.
I take down ever do you recall, isn't it true,
pursuant to, but I want to stop

the deposition and applaud this sky.
Hallelujah this sky. Devour this sky.
Stuff myself with pure white fluffiness,
slip clouds into their transcript.

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thank you for reading and commenting!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thank you for reading and caring. I’m okay❤️