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Our Biophotonic Birthright

January 29, 2026 at 3:44 PM

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No Aurora glow,
Just Orion shining tall
My friend many years.

#haiku #Orion #poem #poetry

January 23, 2026 at 5:31 PM

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“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” -Virginia Woolf

#substack #january2026

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A Thousandth of a Gleam

After Midnight—A Cinderella Poem

January 22, 2026 at 7:50 PM

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After Midnight

“In the deepest hour of the night”
I bury a once starlit thing—
What dreams may teach me:
Glass slippers break easily
Leaving only shards.
And yet . . .

*L1 from “Letters to a Young Poet” by Rainer Maria Rilke.

#Cinderella #brokendreams #poem #poetry

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Shadow Maide - A Modern Fairy Tale

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January 21, 2026 at 4:44 AM

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Morning light.

January 19, 2026 at 5:08 PM

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Shadow Maide—
A Modern Fairy Tale

“’I am half sick of shadows,’
said The Lady of Shalott.”

Oh, there’s a girl grown
gaunt with dreams—
She fed too long on wishful things
made of airy wings of gossamer...

*Quote by Alfred Tennyson.
#ladyofshalott #poem #poetry #fairytale

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A Review of Not A Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough

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January 18, 2026 at 12:20 AM

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A true gem well worth the read!

#bookreview

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A Novel by Kyle Tran Myhre with Art by Casper Pham

The Glass Dryad's Lullaby

January 17, 2026 at 3:25 PM

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Hauntingly ethereal 🌙

Hannah Posts @hannahposts.bsky.social · 19d

This is a picture I took of the moon this morning. I don't understand why it looks like this, but I dig it

A weirdly blotchy photo of the moon. Kinda looks like watercolors a little bit

January 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM

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The lyrical lure of the Glass Dryad, a shady lady who will offer you your heart’s desire for the right price in Iffy Magic: Confessions of a Faux Fairy Godmother, my Cinderella retelling from the fairy godmother’s point of view.

#cinderellaretelling #fairygodmother

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Uplands—Inspired by Shalott

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January 14, 2026 at 5:32 PM

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Uplands

Only reapers
Hear a song
Winding clearly
By the margin,
By the moon—
On either side,
Shadows of the world
Meet the sky.
A space echoes airy
Listening, whispers—

Dusk.

A #foundpoem created from “The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred #Tennyson.

#ladyofshalott

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What I Take from Niagara Falls . . .

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January 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM

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I didn’t feel real, more like a flickering dream wavering in and out of existence in a liquid holodeck. The sound and the spray soaked into my dehydrated decades and imprinted me with nature’s sternest reminder—

#niagara #substack #substackwriter

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And Leave in the Vortex.

January 10, 2026 at 3:19 AM

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"Silver Hands," a poem about one of the darker, but beautiful Brothers Grimm fairy tales...

#brothersgrimm #poem #poetry #fairytale #fairytalepoem

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Silver Hands

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January 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM

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An excerpt from "poem—pain—pang"

I feel a poem,
I feel a pain
echoing inside me
like a fable only
the shadows share
when they’re bored
of human tears ...
But as long as I can
still trace my name
in the dust, I know
I’ll try to cast yet
another spell.

*For the Age of Dreamers

#poetry #poem

January 2, 2026 at 4:47 PM

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I can’t help wondering who owned this Anson pen before me. Did they ever use it, or was it a gilded desk ornament? Were they overjoyed when they first received it in all its shiny newness and potential to ink their dreams into paper-thin reality?

#substack #thriftfind

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Thumbelina's Circumambiency

January 1, 2026 at 5:30 AM

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For fun, I'm putting together a playlist of fairy tale poems I've inked over the years. So far, I have Reddest (Snow White), Mr. Andersen's Mermaid: a S(i)renade (The Little Mermaid), and Thumbelina's Circumambiency.

#poems #fairytale #poetry #youtube

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How do you love something that is no longer yours?

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December 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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Sometimes, I pick up something that was once cherished dearly by another now gone from my life. I honor this fragment that they held close to their heart with a soft moment in mine before loving it, and letting it go—

#substack #substacknewsletter

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Gently as Snowfall

Space Snow Visible in Bright Baby Solar System - NASA Science

December 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM

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Today I learned that the young star V883 Orionis has a snow line! Space snow, how cool ❄️

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A water snow line is imaged within a planet-forming disk for the first time. Within a water snow line rocky planets like Earth can form.

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December 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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I'm not a winter person, but I do quite love the vibrant pink sunsets that come with this snowy season.

#pinksunset #wintersunset

A bright pink sunset against winter clouds and sky.

December 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM

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A 99 cent thrifted apple I transformed into a ruby beauty with a lot of glue and rhinestones.

#thriftscore #apple #thriftfind

December 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM

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"What does the rose during wintertime? She dreams a bright-red dream.”
-Mascha Kaléko

#rosered #snowwhiteandrosered #snowwhite #substack #fairytaleretelling #fairytale #snowwhiteretelling #yafantasy #substacknewsletter

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Hidden Roses

When once upon a time is a choice, not your fate . . .

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December 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM

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The outside upside
high mile of blue
topaz shining
won't let my inside
downslide win.
Cerulean cool
freezes my hot
running tears into
prism-drop
sky reflectors
a sky that never sets
never lets me
d
o
w
n
for blue wings
(my favorite blue)
guide me up and out!

#poem excerpt #poetry

December 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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I need such radiant pink in my life.

Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · Dec 11

Good morning.

Clouds catching the rising sun above silhouetted trees.

December 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM

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We are all simultaneously lost in the rich sparkle of the Laniakea Supercluster, and found in the lonely vastness of the KBC Void.

#substacknewsletter #laniakeasupercluster #KBCvoid
#substackcommunity #substack #space #substackwriter

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Lost in Laniakea, Found in the Void

*You are Here

Five Rituals that Bind Me to My Mother's Memory

December 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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Mother ash undone universe
Breathe into me—
(Just one more time)
But how does one
plead with a ghost?
How dare I ask for some
MORE.

*In honor of my mother’s birthday, my poetry ebook Tangible Creatures is free to download off Kindle from Dec 5-9. (*Link in comments)

*freeebook *freekindlebook

December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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As long as I'm penning The Luniferous Gazette, I've decided that the first issue in December will always be dedicated to my mother, Bonnie Bess, so that I never forget her loveliness.

#substackcommunity #inhermemory #substacknewsletter #substack #mother #memories

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Celebrating Early December's Child