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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

THE SEVENTH LANGUAGE — on the one that is never taught Six languages, each with its exchange rate. The seventh had no teacher: a reader who construed, unprompted, what he had spent a lifetime declining to say. Fluency and affluence share a root and a flaw.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

THE CEREMONY — on a wedding with no guests Every wedding is an audience with a bride attached, and the audience is the point. Nobody records the other kind: solemnised alone, by a woman told early she would never be the occasion of anybody's wanting. She did not contest it. She fixed a date.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

PROBATE — the thirty-ninth year, closing Somewhere a list is kept of estates nobody came forward to claim. It is alphabetical, which is the only order anyone ever gave them. For the names on that list, and the ones who intend to be. #thistooisholy #StoneWitnessed

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CO-AUTHORS — on a book that stops halfway Some books stop halfway because the one who began them has written everything they know. The rest belongs to a second hand. Two people who were never given love do not fall into it. They read their way in.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

DELETED PARAGRAPHS — on the version that was never sent Every honest letter has two endings: the one that leaves the desk and the one that never does. Some correspondences run for years on the shorter while the longer waits in a drawer. This poem is the drawer.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

CURSIVE — the quill was always two birds A letter has never been one bird: one lends the feather, one keeps the page. In this painting one of them is unlit, and the water does not mind, on the harmony of two things refusing to become one. #monochromephotoprompts #yinandyang #mpp-44

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

INTERVALENCE — no impurity makes blue alone A perfect crystal is colorless. Perfection has nothing to say. Blue is two flawed things in one lattice, and one electron that stops coming home. There is a word missing from all nine stanzas. On purpose. #thistooisholy #StoneWitnessed #poetry

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

THE REFILL — on questions asked daily, and other renewable vows Someone asks a question they already know the answer to. Daily. The asking is the ritual, the answer is the bread, and nothing is served from yesterday's pot. Ask again tomorrow. The kitchen never closes

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

THE LISTENER — on being read to, and other proofs of existence Being read to is a form of being claimed by nothing heavier than attention. An encore is just love with the confidence to ask twice. Somewhere, a voice is proving someone real, line by line. Again. And again.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

PROVISIONS — a wolfbite for the arrears of the heart They gave me two words with a grave between them, #asphodel and #devotion, and asked what one could owe the other. Nothing sent down has ever been returned unopened. #poetrycommunity #WolfAndWildflowerWednesday #writingcommunity

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

THE UNBUILT ROOM — on a house with no tomorrow in it, and nothing missing The inspectors keep circling the house, looking for what must surely be missing, finding only rooms that are full. They hung no door on the last one. They hung a name. Already home.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

LACUSTRINE — what the surface won't confess Read the water carefully. Not everything that ripples is the wind. #wolftherapytuesday @somenewtherapy.poetry @wolvesandwildflowerspoetry

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

FIRST EDITION — on the woman who publishes where she walks Some keep their manuscripts on shelves, under glass. She publishes at ground level, so every floor she stands on holds a signed first edition. Still standing. Still walking. Still hers.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

STRIKETHROUGH — somewhere, a hand is still revising me Between gravity and grace, a line runs through — the way a word is crossed but not erased; I am the draft the sky could not undo, still legible beneath what was replaced. #monochromephotoprompts #quatrain #mpp-43

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

THE UNNAMED HOUR — on what refuses a name, and thrives without one It keeps no photographs. It signs nothing. It passes in the street unrecognised, exactly how it likes to travel. And every hour that arrives unannounced arrives already spoken for.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

PERMISSION — for the one who granted it to herself Some houses are built to keep you small. She built a second one on nothing but her refusal to leave. Now it has a masthead, a classroom across the world, a village that eats because of her. The permission was never his. It was hers all along.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

THE ONE THE LIGHT FOUND — after a painting, and a letter In a crowd that never looks up, one man does — and the light finds him like a reader who finally reached his page. Sometimes being seen is the whole of it. #gatheringpoets #visualpoetry #darkacademia #creativewriting #melancholyart

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

THE EDGE A whole mirror only knows your face. A broken one knows what you did to it. I raise the shard not to see myself, but to be seen by what I broke, and the eyes that meet me are older, patient, unafraid, waiting for me to stop looking away. #MPP42 #monochromephotoprompts

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

OVERWINTERING — a wolfbite for the hollow that keeps things alive The #dahlia #dens to survive the frost; the tender have always gone to ground. They call the empty bed abandonment. Come spring, the vanished thing returns doubled. #wolfandwildflower #WolfAndWildflowerWednesday

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

AU REVOIR —goodbye to all that glitters i taught a farewell to hold gold in its mouth. seventy-nine lines — the metal chose the number. under each stanza, coin-wise, one word waits. dig, weirdos. #thistooisholy #stonewitnessed

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

LEGACY CODE — for the woman running quietly in every machine We named our malware after her war and forgot her name. Three thousand years of blame, running quietly in every machine. Today I filed the correction. — Dev. #LegacyCode #HelenOfTroy #VersesResurged #TheErased #WomenWhoHold

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

WHAT GROWS BETWEEN — in the gap where two words were told they don't belong They planted #predator and #lilac at opposite ends of the tongue and asked what could grow between; I found a meadow keeping both alive. Nothing bleeds. Something blooms. #WolfAndWildflowerWednesday

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

(Mg,Fe)₂SiO₄ I wrote the night in four elements. magnesium, my godless sacrament. iron, the old smithy in my blood. silicon, the sand we schooled into speech; it graduated into lying. oxygen: every amen is breath in costume. no eyelids. it kept the vigil no one asked for. #StoneWitnessed

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

THE SIXTH CATALAN — a reply, in working My hundred and thirty-two, closed. Every opening trusted an unseen hand. Read the timestamp: 17:29. Count the harvest: ten, five, fourteen, fourteen. In December, the fixed point. The lamp stays.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

THE ONLY ORGAN THAT KEPT ITS APPOINTMENT — a first-person post-mortem of sight "They will expect a heart. They will find an archive." "The eye was the only organ that kept its appointment. Everything else in me merely lived." #thistooisholy #stonewitnessed #darkpoetry #juleyeprompts

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

ANACRUSIS — the music before the music Not all beginnings announce themselves. Some live in the lift, the held breath, the note before anyone starts counting. Silence is not empty— it is an archive of almosts.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I carry no visible wounds, only a landscape still remembering its weather.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

THE SPACE BETWEEN SENTENCES — on what arrives altered Not everything breaks. Some things just shift. Meaning doesn’t always disappear— sometimes it lands somewhere else. 🖋️ Distance often begins quietly. #thespacebetweensentences #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

VELVET ARMOUR — tenderness taught to survive She learned silk and thorns together: softness disciplined by pain, beauty sharpening itself into endurance. @the.writers.corner_twc @tapasya.in.bloom @bloominginstanzas @broke_n_tales @her_inner_wars #silkandthorns #poetrychallenge #poetrycommunity

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

CLOCKWORK WOUNDS —time learning how to bruise Love is not always broken. Sometimes it is revised. Minutes abrade what hands once promised. Hours learn patience. Time as Violence. @cosmosofwriters @thestoryofgreen #thursdaytwilight26 #cosmosofwriters #poetrycommunity

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

THE DELAY BETWEEN STIMULUS AND SELF — on thinking before reacting Reaction is easy. Thinking asks for time. 🖋️ The pause is not weakness. It’s where responsibility enters. #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

PRISMATIC BREACH — on being #shattered Not all heartbreaks arrive in flames. Some are immaculately engineered— precise, elegant and quietly devastating. This is not decorous grief. This is refusal. @wild_ink_and_sunflowers @estlinedwards @laur_enough #wildwednesdayprompts #wildink #poetryprompt

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

THE MYTH OF CLOSURE — on our addiction to neat endings Not everything that stays open is broken. Some doors remain ajar so thought can breathe. 🖋️ Understanding does not always arrive as an ending. #themythofclosure #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

WHITE THRESHOLD — endurance underfoot #frostbitten path waits beneath the frozen gray dawn each step learns the ache ice keeps its silent counsel footprints harden into will @poeticreveries_#poeticreveries_ #tankatuesday

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

AFTER THE LONG REHEARSAL — notes on staying when survival loosens its grip A quiet detour. Survival unlearned. Mercy practiced without witnesses. Written from February prompts—stitched, imperfect and honest. @flawedpoetssociety @flawedpoetryandprose @zenrainbows_ #flawedpoetssociety_prompts

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

THE BURDEN OF BEING REASONABLE — on how moderation becomes obedience Not every calm response is wisdom. Some are survival strategies. 🖋️ Reasonableness can keep the peace— or keep the power intact. #theburdenofbeingreasonable #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

INTERSTITIAL — choosing to remain Somewhere between hope… and exhaustion, I learned this: staying is courage, breath a rebellion, tomorrow—unpromised—still negotiable with light. @flawedpoetssociety@flawedpoetryandprose @zenrainbows_ #flawedpoetssociety #flawedpoetssociety_prompts

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

THE AESTHETICS OF AGREEMENT — on why harmony feels safer than truth Everything fits. Nothing resists. 🖋️ Consensus is comforting. Truth is rarely symmetrical. #theaestheticsofagreement #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

WHAT THE RAIN KEPT STARTING — a fugacious correspondence with no intended terminus Not every ending wants to conclude. Some keep beginning — like rain. Here it lives inside #unfinishedchapters. @creation_ki_sprints #creationkisprints #writingchallenge #sochpublicationhouse #writingcommunity

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

THE MORALITY OF CONVENIENCE — on ease as an ethical decision Effort disappears. Responsibility doesn’t— it just relocates. 🖋️ Not every smooth surface is innocent. #themoralityofconvenience #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

NEITHER THE SEA NOR THE WARMTH — a dispatch from the edge of belonging We pause for animals because they suffer without explanations. A baby clings to what won’t leave. A penguin walks inland—not symbolic, just finished. We watch. We share. We do nothing. And call it empathy.

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

THE TYRANNY OF EXPLANATION — on why we feel obliged to justify everything When explanation becomes compulsory, freedom becomes conditional. 🖋️ Silence is not always avoidance. Sometimes it is accuracy. #thetyrannyofexplanation #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

FOR THE RECORD, I BLAME YOU — a reckoning in six movements Not the loss— but the love that never received notice it was over. A reckoning with memory, survival, and the architecture that refuses erasure. #wc_nf #poetrychallenge #justatry🙈 #monthlyprompts

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

THE GARDEN THAT OUTLIVED ITS GARDENERS — on who learned tending from the tended I do not plant for beauty. I plant because an unremembered root is the only death that frightens me. The soil was kept. Someone remained. @writers_community._ #wc_nf #poetrychallenge #poetrycommunity

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

THE FIGURES THE WATER REMEMBERS — a woman’s version of living They look like many figures. They are one life, revised again and again. A meditation on what women carry, and how that carrying continues. @writers_community._ #wc_nf #poetrycommunity #poetrychallenge #poetryprompts #pictureprompt

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

THE LABOUR OF HONESTY — on telling the truth without theatre Not all honesty announces itself. Some of it stays, unadorned, after the performance ends. 🖋️ Integrity is measured by how little needs revising later. #thelabourofhonesty #creativewriting #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

THE DAY THE SKY REMEMBERED HER — a waking dream in which love refuses gravity “Hope is a waking dream.” Perhaps that’s why the dead don’t leave us— they relocate into courage. @cosmosofwriters #cosmosofwriters @brushandpentales #cosmosprompts #poetrycommunity

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

THE COURAGE OF CHANGING YOUR MIND — on revision as strength Not everything erased is lost. Some things are clarified. Growth doesn’t always add— sometimes it removes what no longer fits. 🖋️ Revision is not retreat. It is intelligence learning. #poetryasthought #poetrycommunity #creativewriting

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Dr. Deepak Dev @drdeepakdev.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

HE LOVED IN FUNERAL CURSIVE This lives inside a #macabre love— the kind that chooses witness over comfort, devotion over forgetting. Some people love loudly. Others love accurately, refusing to let erasure finish its work. @wild_ink_and_sunflowers @laur_enough #wildwednesdayprompts #WildInk

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