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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It could be said that the relationship of poems to what we intuit, but can never fully say, makes them like prayer — that unending effort to bring someone closer to the divine, without pretending that the divine could ever be fully known or understood. -- Matthew Zapruder

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Rather than incorporating #slithy into writing, I was inspired to create some portmanteaux of my own. May I present: n00benesque: voluptuous n00b (adj.) Limpotent: emphatically limp Fibberish: a nonsensical lie Requirous: feeling one requires something Grippery: the opposite of slippery #vss365

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Gutted. I remember the first time I watched Twin Peaks - completely blown away, an instant favorite. I immediately knew I needed to see everything David Lynch had done. What a loss - but we’re so lucky for the time we got to consciously exist in the same reality with this absolute weirdo. RIP.

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a man is sitting in front of a microphone and says it 's such a sadness

Alt: Clip of an interview with David Lynch - he is in a black shirt seated in front of a microphone, saying “It’s such a sadness…”

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

there is nothing like the thrill of reading something that makes you want to write immediately afterward

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

God quit— put his two-week notice in packed up what was dear to him & holy ghosted. That’s it— guess we’re stuck with all our sin. Cue the tiny violin. #vss365 #quit #amwriting

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Enjoying this book immensely at the moment. #amreading

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

A writing prompt should get us closer to that quiet voice & knowing that pulls us along like an undercurrent when we sit down to write. It should catalyze new circuits in your language, not rhetorical gestures. I wrote 31 prompts based on the works of other writers. I hope they're useful to you. 💛

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31 Writing Prompts That Work

...because they draw from the "great lake" of writing

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Year's End by Richard Wilbur (www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43052/...) #happynewyear #poetry #poem

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here’s a poem called ‘This was the year that was not the year’.

This was the year that was not the year

This was the year that was not the year
I repaired the bathroom tap
and emptied out the kitchen drawer
of a lifetime’s worth of crap.

This was the year that was not the year
in which I launched a new career.
A West End hit eluded me
and so did Time Person of the Year.

This was the year that was not the year
I became a household name.
Action figures were not sold of me.
I wasn’t made a dame.

This was the year that was not the year
I spent less time on my phone.
Nights of passion did not happen
in boutique hotels in Rome.

This was the year that was the year
I didn't get that much done –
much the same as the year before,
much like the one to come.

Brian Bilston

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Cure me of my gorgeous, heady sin cry out a hymn I am a tiny recluse in your bed my dear, my devil, the #schism is a relief— you beat in me. Dawn darkens— hooves in the garden #vss365

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Went off on a bit of a tangent away from #tranquility, I fear. #vss365

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Goodnight. Three Women and Three Wolves, Grasset, 1892. #GothicAdvent

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I'm here with your #silhouette "Black Portrait of a Mother" the smoke of your cigarette wraps around me, a tether to some then, scent memory some embarrassing thoughtcrime some place that feels summery in some time that is not time. #vss365

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Just brainstorming for today’s #vss365 word, #silhouette, and I often check the etymology of the words, even if I’m familiar with them, and I’m glad I did with this one. Super interesting and thought I’d share in case anyone else also thinks so. 🤓

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Do you hear what I hear?” the shepherd boy whispered, staring at the star that grew too bright, too fast. It wasn’t light bringing peace. It was fire, descending, and something ancient riding within. “He will bring us goodness and light,” it laughed.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’. ‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 17/12/2024

Let’s think in private more.

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

“Allusion is often not pivotal to the comprehension of a work, but it is pivotal to the full enjoyment of it.” —A.E. Stallings

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

“Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.” —Anne Sexton

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Carmen Maldonado @cmaldonadooooo.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

His voice is just past the #threshold of memory. He stands mute through a doorway I will one day not be able to find. The door swings slowly shut, until only a glimpse and a whisper - then nothing, a sealed entrance to a stranger’s home on a street I can no longer place. #vss365

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't have "too many books".

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