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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · Aug 2

; humans in Gaza are being deliberately starved.

the best way i know to use my voice is thru poetry. will it make a difference? no. but collectively, our voices have power.

this is 𝗻𝗼𝘁 the time for silence.

#poetry #poem #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #writersky #Gaza #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 10h

; earth screams in pain; begs to be

saved; yet humanity do

not listen - as she nears the

throes of death, we ignore her

desperate pleas; refuse to let

her anguish ruin our party -

roast marshmallows in the flames

as the world burns around us.

#7syllablesentence #throes #micropoetry #poetry

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 14h

; 𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓽 ; 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓂𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓁. 𔓘

#7syllablesentence #blithe

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 16h

🤣🤣 true, but i have so much respect for anyone who learns English as a second language - how are done, gone and bone all pronounced differently! 🥴

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 16h

; couldn't sleep last night & started thinking about the classic British debate of the pronounciation of 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘦.

some pronounce 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘦 to rhyme with 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦, others pronounce 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘦 to rhyme with 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦...

the real question we should be asking is:

WHY DOES NOBODY PRONOUNCE 𝙎𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙀 TO RHYME WITH 𝘿𝙊𝙉𝙀?!

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 17h

; the fragile remains
of decay; leaf skeletons -
ghosts of autumn past.

#dailyhaikuprompt #ghost #haiku #autumn #autumnleaves #fall #micropoetry #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #nature #naturephotography #photography #autumnphotography

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 17h

; "scrap English as a degree course!"

- the genius who cannot correctly spell 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯. 🙄🤣

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 1d

; "some say 𝘒𝘦𝘪𝘳 means 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯,
but we know 𝘒𝘦𝘪𝘳 means 𝗰𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱."

- Poem for the Prime Minster by Lucas Jones.

👏🏻🇵🇸

#poem #poetry #Gaza #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 1d

; food demonisation & fearmongering aside, i DO agree that cochineal as red food colouring should be ditched - so battenberg would finally be suitable for vegetarians! 🎉

if Fox's & Mcvities can use natural red dye for party rings & iced gems, surely Mr Kipling could too!

#JoeWicks #LicensedToKill

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 1d

; protests 👏🏻 against 👏🏻 genocide 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 un-British 👏🏻🇵🇸

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 1d

; 𝖘𝖈𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖊-𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖕 𝖘𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖆𝖘𝖒 𝖈𝖚𝖙𝖘 𝖉𝖊𝖊𝖕.

#7syllablesentence #scythe

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 2d

; "you boy! how do you spell Britain?"

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 2d

; Kemi issues a stark warning to all Brits named Ian; Ians in Britain have a LOT to lose.

JUST the Ians. 🙃

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 2d

instead, doomed to a cruel fate;

life cut short by death's sharp blade.

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#7syllablesentence #scythe #micropoetry #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 2d

; the grim reaper is often

too eager to wield his scythe.

his haste to collect victims

prompts a premature harvest.

an untimely gathering

of souls; seedlings barely sown;

no chance to grow; flourish; bloom.

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#7syllablesentence #scythe #micropoetry

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 2d

; we all know 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 how this story ends.

we sat in history lessons at school, learning about Hitler & the Nazis rise to power and wondered how people let it happen.

the answer to that question is playing out right in front of our eyes.

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[credit to Robin Hood Poetry]

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 2d

Elf!

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 2d

; a waifish figure; wraith-like

& gaunt; lurks eerily in

the shadows. her soulless eyes

and haunted expression stare

back at me from the mirror.

hollows of nothingness; voids

of despair in a ghostly

pale skull. the sweet promise of

death remains just out of reach.

#7syllablesentence #wraith

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 2d

; ah, nothing like diet culture to taint the advent countdown to Christmas with the bitter taste of misery!

self-inflicted punishment in the form of 25 days of edible diet culture under the guise of a "guilt-free treat" - despite guilt not being an ingredient in any food! 🙃

#fuckdietculture

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 2d

; fragmented memories haunt me;

wraith-like threads - impossible

to weave together; fragile

wisps of the past float just out

of reach; fraying edges slip

through my fingers like smoke; fade

to nothingness - disappear;

forgotten; forever lost.

#7syllablesentence #wraith #micropoetry #memories

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 3d

; wounds on skin may heal; form scars; fade - yet the emotional trauma remains raw; my mind still bleeds.

#micropoetry #poetry #poetrysky #writing

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 3d

; bold to suggest that i am not the worst possible version of myself every single day! 🖤💀

Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 3d

Cancer: You will be the worst possible version of yourself today, but no one will notice the difference.

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 3d

; curious if the Removals Force will deport those whose British citizenship is due to their mum taking advantage of a loophole in the law - specifically flying from Africa to the UK to give birth, solely to ensure her baby was eligible for a UK passport, then flew home & raised her kid in Nigeria? 🤔

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 3d

; Hislop jokes that "Farage" is pronounced "far-right" and, yet again, the far-right snowflakes throw their toys out the pram about "hurty words". 🙄🍼

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 3d

yet again, hypocritical far-right snowflakes are crying over "hurty words". 🙄🤣

Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 3d

; a delicate wraith of smoke

rose from the dying embers.

#7syllablesentence #wraith

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