Vironika Wilde
vironikawilde.bsky.social
Vironika Wilde
@vironikawilde.bsky.social
Poet / spoken word artist / award-winning author / Ukrainian / Bashkir Tatar / Nagaybak / immigrant / survivor / activist / mama bear / cat fanatic
Pinned
I used to read
#history books
wondering
how we allowed
such horrors
to happen.

Now, I read
the news
wondering
the same thing.

#vss365 #poetry
Don't let these AI snakes convince you to eat from the Tree of Prosperity.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The most #relevant poems
are the most alive.

#Poetry does not
inhabit books.

It possesses us.

It is here now.

#vss365
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Of all the #options,
children.
Of all the crimes,
ones with victims.
Of all the men,
the most powerful.

#vss365 #poetry #EpsteinTrumpFiles
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
You can't live a full life
ignoring #reality's beauty
or its brutality.

#vss365 #poetry
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If the ultimate #goal of a system
isn't freedom for every single member of it,
no one inside that system is free.

The ones who supposedly benefit
from an unjust society
are merely trapped
in a different cage.

#vss365 #poetry
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I used to think
following the news
was toxic, stressful.

Now, even with my
toddler yelling,
baby crying,
bills piling,
I won't ignore
a human rights #issue.

Don't be fooled
into thinking
it's stressful
to care.

#vss365 #poetry
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Those inhabiting this dystopia
must have some distraction,
some social, chemical, technological ticket
to #transport them out of the present moment
because this very moment is the only place
where the dystopia can be dismantled.

#vss365 #poetry
November 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A study recently proved that
the postpartum period
lasts for at least one year,
not six weeks.

Should I be impressed
that #science is finally
catching up to what
every mother already knew?

Because I'm not.

#vss365
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I am not separate from the news.

I am not helpless.

I am making choices.

I am not a member of the mindless masses.

I am not a #number.

I am not a loyal consumer.

I will not overlook complicity in atrocities.

My integrity is not for sale.

#vss365 #poetry
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Sudan.
Zahara's family slaughtered.
Eyes ablaze, she chants,

"Our martyrs are not dead.
They live alongside us."

Is this not #poetry?

Gaza.
A man on a pile of rubble
spray paints in English and Arabic:

"We stay."

Is this not #literature?

#vss365
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Sudan.
Zahara's family are all dead.
Eyes ablaze, she chants,

"Our martyrs are not dead.
They live alongside us."

Is this not #poetry?

Gaza.
A man on a pile of rubble
spray paints in English and Arabic:

"We stay."

Is this not #literature?

#vss365
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Marvel at these creators of chaos

using #language as putty,
molding provocative phantasms.

Watch these authors of affectation

editing #law like a manuscript,
crafting wealth-worshipping worlds.

They are the artists now.

#vss365 #poetry
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I used to read
#history books
wondering
how we allowed
such horrors
to happen.

Now, I read
the news
wondering
the same thing.

#vss365 #poetry
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The people who gripe about their taxes paying for food banks are always so quiet about their taxes paying for wars and politicians' family vacations.
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
shrinking illusions
imagined #geography
our maps are all wrong

#vss365 #poetry #haiku
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous x My Dark Vanessa

Relapse/Rewind: a raw, brutally honest, time-travelling, upmarket page turner about a survivor seeking freedom in all the wrong places.

#QuestPit #Q #A #DR
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
#Domestic has been my
dirty word.

I have fought back violent hands
and used my own to do too much.

I have watched war swallow memories
and heard my taxes fund atrocities.

Maybe it is every immigrant's curse.
Home is always a bittersweet thing.

#vss365 #poetry
November 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Two things I know for sure:

that money comes and goes,
but time never returns
and
that those of us who know this
can only get so close
to those who don't.

#poetry
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I don't know how they do it.
The brainwashed
have limitless #energy
to deny reality.

"But the hostages,
but the hostages..."

Ceasefire violated
for the 47th time
in 9 days.

Imagine denying
a live-streamed genocide.
What lies will they spout now?

#vss365 #poetry
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
bring me a cup of your worst fears
bring me a plate of your dreams
bring me a #saucer of secrets
this is how our family feasts

#vss365 #poetry
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It is not enough
to empathize only
for an audience
or only on Wednesdays
after a nice sleep
and finished chores.

Real compassion
sneaks into every thought,
every #atom, every
otherwise happy moment.

#vss365 #poetry
October 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The algorithms demand
for us to #hover over the truth.

We must choose between
being honest and being heard.

Or so they say,
these media goblins,
so they
underestimate us.

Fools.

#vss365 #poetry
October 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
These headlines read
like a bad thriller:
one-dimensional villains
endless plot holes.

Our modern dystopia.
I wish I could call it #unearthly,
call it poorly written fiction,
call it anything but real.

#vss365 #poetry
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
in the ceasefire symphony,
there is an ominous #undertone

hear it in the complicit
who applaud themselves,
expect us to cheer along

and forget about the unreleased and 
the martyred and the unpunished and 
the rubble and the children and the lies 

#vss365 #poetry
October 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Let me tell you about
the lightning I've tasted.

No #raincoat. No running.

There is too much thunder in me
to fear this storm.

#vss365 #poetry
October 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM