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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin

@mother-poet.bsky.social

1.4K followers 1.4K following 2.9K posts

She/Her | Poet | 🏳️‍🌈 | ✊️ My work is published in The Chaos Section, where I review poems and assist with the editorial process; Loblolly Press; Medicine & Meaning; and a Central Arkansas Library System anthology, with one poem nominated for Best of the Net.

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · Jun 29

when everything ends
we are stardust to stardust
a return to #space

#vss365 #scifaiku #haiku #micropoem #poem #poetry #poet #writing #photography #moon (not the current phase pictured)

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 1h

Stunning!

Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 1h

LOVE

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 1h

🥳🥳🥳

Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 1h

YAY!!! 🥰🥰🥰

Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 2h

Sooo close to 500 likes 🤯 Ngl I am trying to boost this because I could use the feel good chemicals of seeing it tip over to 500 😁😁

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 2h

YUM

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Tomorrow the Epstein survivors will storm Capitol Hill to demand release of the files. I hope new Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is sworn in at their press conference by another judge or official who is authorized to do so (doesn’t have to be the Speaker).

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 6h

Beautiful poem - and great photo @branacos.bsky.social 📸

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 22h

tonight's moon reminds -
a memory #relic of
my child, long ago,

riding in the car, in awe
that the moon, it followed us

#haikufeels #prompt #tanka #poem #poetry #moon #FullMoon #photography #Hunter'sMoon

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 8h

a red panda is walking across a sidewalk .

ALT: a red panda is walking across a sidewalk .

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 8h

bright canna still blooms
long after spring, now autumn;
will she last till frost

or will she succumb to this
somber, ashen existence?

#vss365 #prompt #ash #tanka #haiku #poetry #photography #bloomscrolling #depression #ptsd #anxiety

Things in the US are crumbling, and many of us can't focus 💔

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Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 8h

#vss365

Leaf and #ash
To rake away
Compost
For
A Tattered heart
Fingers sift
Detritus
Hoping
For fragments
To catch
By the thread
Thoughts
Unraveling
Life in free fall
A black smear
Of fingerprints
Wrapped
Around my throat
Words reduced
To syllables
Rudiments
Of meaning
Billow away

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 8h

Ok I need to attend one of these sometime 😆 🐼 (where's the red panda emoji? :-( )

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 9h

Imo: Martial law, then civil war, then some new form of democracy - not what we had before

Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 9h

Yup

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yeehaw poems 👑 @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · 9h

Resistance is

going to the park
reading at the library
viewing handmade art
laughing with your friends
drinking water
eating healing meals
writing poetry
living

#poetry

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 9h

Yes! 💯 Struggling to do these things this week. :-(

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 9h

Lol I might be blonde but I ain't dumb 🤪

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 12h

dear reality
please go away
i’m hibernating

#haiku #senryu
#DailyHaikuPrompt (avoid)

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 10h

Agreed!!! It's a mess.

Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 10h

It sounds yucky. I would not eat a scun 😂😂

Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 11h

I know I already told you, but since it boosts your post: great essay!!!

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Nick Allison @nickallison80.bsky.social · 13h

We haven’t failed at peaceful resistance in America. We just haven’t tried it yet.
New essay up at @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social, a nonpartisan platform where insiders and outsiders meet to repair our democracy. Follow them for thoughtful, solutions-based dialogue.

thefulcrum.us/civic-engage...

Critical Mass and the 3.5% Rule: Why Nonviolent Protest Can Work When We Actually Try It

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably...

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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks!

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