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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · May 30

Octavia Butler wrote this in her journal in 1988.
It wasn’t a wish — it was a plan.
Every line a spell. Almost all of it manifested.

(Writers, read this out loud. Then write your own.) ↓

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 18h

refer to this image for how writing and life is going this delightfully dreary october <3

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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

—Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 1d

poetry prompt of the week: love and grief — both of their hands littered with cuts and bruises, bandaged and wrapped up by the other, surprising to most, are intertwined. can you create a scene between their dynamic?

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“Any day now I’m going to wake up angry enough to haunt you.”

Regina Avendaño

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 2d

fuck an "offline" status for work communication,,, where is my "emotionally a forgotten porcelain doll in the knick knack section of the thrift store rn"

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 4d

if i had a therapist they'd be hearing about this but my tattered-to-hell notebook WILL certainly get word of this

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you could consider me a lover. maybe. something very tender, certainly. something akin to a bruise.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 7d

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 7d

professional make-stuff-upper, romanticizer, daydreamer, overqualified-for-a-straight-jacket-based-on-my-journal-alone-r, grocery list writer and shopper, and —

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 8d

poetry prompt of the week: you are the beast that you worship. detail the ritual and conditions it takes to summon yourself.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 10d

My first ever grown chillies!!! What should I do with these? (Didn’t realize we’d have so many!)

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 13d

Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize is now open for submissions!

We’ve also increased the prize to $3500 (from $2K last year) so we can celebrate more poems/poets🌻

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 14d

moody insane chronically daydreaming writer/bitch seeking kind considerate inhuman-level-of-patience partner for love-hate relationship — also open to an enemies to lovers

ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 15d

Give me crack and anal sex, take the only tree that's left
And stuff it up the hole in your culture
Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've seen the future, brother, it is murder

—Leonard Cohen

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 15d

poetry prompt of the week: is there a part of your body, like an organ or system, that functions more real than the others? can you demonstrate its realness?

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Kim Addonizio

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thinking about the concept of a sin-eater today

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Michael Robins