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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A poem about bad news and tough times. A bit of an updated version of something I’d written before and my submission for #PoemsAbout #DeepCuts Thank you, @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social #poetsofbluesky #poetry

Brave Face
I look past her smile.
Peer into my mom's sparkling amber eyes And see the cyclone of her thoughts
Whipping and lashing the inside of her mind.
She's scared.
I am too.
Can't have my own storm wound her further.
So I write it down, where the words can rage
All wrapped up in metaphor so none of the corners peak out, hidden between sheets of paper, way, way, waaaaay in the back of a bookshelf.
Let's sit in the garden.
The sunshine feels so nice today.
Tell me how your flowers grow.
How are the fruit trees?
We can hold these blue skies for a moment.
Yes, our forecast
Of angry thundering merciless terror raining down
May well take form above our heads one day.
But today is not the day.

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’ve been getting a lot of livestreams of abuelitos singing old mariachi songs on tiktok. This one’s for them. And my submission for #PoemsAbout #MainStage Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poetsofbluesky

El Músico

In a town I never knew
You play a guitar and sing
A quiet incantation
Turning my blood into warmed honey.

And my heart is filled
With a slow, profound sweetness.
I am sure I could take a bite of it.
I know it would taste

Just like a ripe peach
Blushing from the summer sun.

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

A poem by the late Renée Good. Titled “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” published by poets.org May she rest in peace. #poetry #blueskypoetry #reneegood

On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs
by Renée Nicole Macklin

i want back my rocking chairs,

solipsist sunsets,

& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.

i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores

(mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp—

the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):

remember more the slick rubber smell of high gloss biology textbook pictures; they burned the hairs inside my nostrils,

& salt & ink that rubbed off on my palms.

under clippings of the moon at two forty five AM I study&repeat

ribosome

endoplasmic—

lactic acid

stamen

at the IHOP on the corner of powers and stetson hills—

i repeated & scribbled until it picked its way & stagnated somewhere i can’t point to anymore, maybe my gut—

maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul.

it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge that used to sit, a cloth against fevered forehead.

can i let them both be? this fickle faith and this college science that heckles from the back of the classroom

now i can’t believe—

that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—

all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:

life is merely

to ovum and sperm

and where those two meet

and how often and how well

and what dies there.

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A poem about family and the people who give me strength. And a second submission for #poemsabout #blood Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poetsofbluesky #diadelosmuertos #mexican

The Old Guard

Ancient medicine says disease
Comes from ghosts in your blood.
Well I don’t feel sick…
But I can feel them in there.

I’ve no need of ofrendas
Or flores de cempasúchil.

They are right here.
The floor is cold, put on socks mija.
She looks hungry. Offer her food.
This needs more salt…

And when life aims to cast a fatal blow,
They race through my veins,
Turn tender flesh to bronze,
Turn tattered fists to gauntlets.

They whisper.
We’ve survived worse.
They scream.
¡Partele su pinche madre!

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

With SNAP benefits expiring, help keep families fed this holiday season by calling and emailing your governor. Ask them to feed folks by: - declaring a state of emergency - using the national guard - calling a special session Let’s do a good deed today ❤️ #snapbenefits #governmentshutdown #snap

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’ll be back writing more poems as soon as I come up with another good one. In the meantime I’ve been making TikToks and playing #pokemongo , feel free to look me up over there @brutally.kind

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

King of Drag is such a good show, so much heart, jokes on jokes on jokes. God bless those fellas.

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poetry of witness @poetryofwitness.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

‘We Are the Chorus: Poetry of Witness’ is a collaborative project compiling an initial gallery of 12 poems. We'll share one or two poems a week, followed by a collective pause for reflection. The hope is to encourage further conversation, inquiry, & action. Join us at: poetryofwitness.substack.com

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

For my birthday, a poem about success and parents who do the impossible. #poetsofbluesky #poetry #vss365 - #sparrow Thanks @jamilynewriter.bsky.social ❤️

Gift Giver

You surprise me,
Below the curious sparrows
That soar to meet my ankles,
Your eyes so wide with tears.

With your bellows that ring
In the ears of every person in town,
“LOOK! Look at her!”
You? So proud of me?

“My kid can fly!”

As if you don’t remember.
It was you.
You that ripped the clouds from the sky
To make wings.

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I swear to God, one day I’ll learn how to spell. #poetsofbluesky

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A short thread about when my grandma was the first woman in town to wear pants and the first woman to drive. Folks in town were not happy, but ladies like her paved the way for the freedoms we have today. #womensday #nationalwomensday

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 07/03/2025

#Amazon boycott starts tomorrow! For this whole week (but forever is better)

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A poem about adversity and living in unprecedented times. My submission for #poemsabout #roots thanks @alanparry83.bsky.social and @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #poetry #poetsofbluesky #vss365 - outlier

El Roble

The outlier, thought unworthy of even digesting.
Some thoughtless ambling beast
Chews me up and spits me out
Where dirt begins to cover my mangled figure.

Buried alive.
But alive.
And ultimately in my rightful place,
For my roots take hold and I reach for the sky.

Sat high upon a seat I did not conquer alone.
For the fates saw fit to grant me tempered storms,
Perhaps pitying my fragile state.
I grew mighty.

Today the tempests swell with wrath,
Hurling detritus that scars my calloused skin
And lunging to rip my hair out.
Yet my fingertips outreach the tallest clouds…

To feel the kisses of soft winds and sunlight.
And my rhizomes spread through earth for miles,
Resting in quiet lands
Where this rage does not exist.

This is not the first torrent of abuse I have survived.
Memory begins to whisper.

The sun once cast its tranquil gaze upon your face
And one day it will again.

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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

this spring instead of taking them off we put our gloves on #resist #haiku #writer #bluecrew

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A poem about crushing perfectionism and overcoming poverty. #poetsofbluesky #poetry #vss365 - fringe Thanks @jamescutley.bsky.social

Beacon

Friends have asked me how I shine so bright.
My impulse is to smile and take the compliment.
Well, frankly it’s a lot of work maintaining a torch,
One that at times may sting or consume.

And truth be told, it’s a defense mechanism
For myself, those I love, and even those I see myself in.
See the sun doesn’t always shine in the fringes of society
And I found myself having to make my own light.

For I heard word that the kingdom of heaven is within me.
So I tore myself open to reveal its golden rays
That I and those near to me
Wouldn’t have to stumble around in the dark no more.

Til civilization turned to see how I shone
And pulled me closer, to a land bathed in sunshine.
Somehow even here where everything gleams,
Folks still remark on how I radiate. A habit I suppose.

Like I can’t trust this sun that once forgot about me and mine.

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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I was going to leave todays #vss365 until this came up

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

A poem about having nothing to write about. #poetsofbluesky #poetry #vss365 - reservoir

Empty Head

Some days it occurs to me
That I have time to write
And I find my reservoir for words
Run dry.

As if monotony drank them all.
As if the sun no longer shined and rain ceased to fall.
As if I did not love or anger.
As if there was no war.

Until I scratch the surface,
Past the mask our spirits bear
That our minds and bodies may endure
Eternal internal maelstroms resulting from… life.

Deep down there, I find it.
That is to say, I gaze upon myself.

So deeply in love that I live in an oil painting,
So enraged my cells could burn down a forest,
My heart so broken my tears could fill oceans.
And so grateful for all of it.

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I’m stressing out over work and look to my left 😂 #dogsofbluesky #pittsky

A grey dog sleeping on a light grey couch belly up with her head covered in a big blanket

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A poem about civic responsibility. #poetsofbluesky #poetry #vss365 - liberation #vssdaily - empire

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kevin @whatupkevin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

recently wrote a poem in indigenous women off and on rez areas inspired by a friend "woven between worlds" lemme know what you think 🙂‍↕️

she moves like a song—
hips swaying between bass lines and heartbeat drums,
gold hoops catching city lights,
braids undone like a promise unfurled.

exists in two worlds—
from tyler to Creator
filling urban spaces with
native presence as a taste of home.

she is fire wrapped in style,
red lips curving around revolution,
hands soft but never idle,
skin kissed by neon lights and the reservation sun.

fierce marble brown eyes
framed by an almond face—
they strip you bare,
make you beg for her cause,
for her name in your mouth.

her mouth? warm, soft, kind—
to those she advocates for.
but to those who seek to harm,
it is a sword,
sharp with the weight of every woman
who has ever fought before her.

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Quick reminder that Russel Vought, an author of Project 2025, is up for confirmation as OMB Director. Call your Senators to vote no on his confirmation today.

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Dadtips @dadtips.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hey my friends! I need help! I don’t see enough positivity and love and support this morning! Can we start a trend? Comment someone down below who you think needs to be given a follow and while you are there follow others! And please repost I want more good people getting love! Times are hard give ❤️

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

post a selfie from your gallery in b&w 🖤🤍

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Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Isra Al-Thibeh, a Nigerian Palestinian poet for Black History Month day 5. www.huffpost.com/entry/isra-a...

my mother / speaks a / silenced / people's / language. / for this/ she will / always / have a / sharp / tongue.

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Get Ready! #Submissions open #Saturday for this #FScottFitzgerald #ClassicNovel themed anthology abt decadence, glamour, deceit, desires then & now. Co-editors: @alanparry83.bsky.social & me @brokenspinearts.bsky.social shorturl.at/xipDH #BeautifulLittleFools #PoetsofBlueSky #PoetryCommunity

Beautiful Little Fools poetry anthology celebrates, reimagines, and responds to The Great Gatsby themes of opulence, decadence, corruption, desire, and more. Then and Now. Submit February 1-28. Details: shorturl.at/xipDH

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hey guys, I’ve been sick again so haven’t been on here. Just wanted to ask y’all to please call your representatives to vote no on the Federal Abortion Ban H.R. 722 that’s been introduced to the House of Representatives. #womenshealth #healthcare #reproductiverights

congress.gov

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

After being sick for ages, I finally took her for a walk. So she parks her butt and doesn’t wanna go back inside 😂 #dogsofbluesky #pittsky

A grey pitbull dog with gold eyes and white paws sitting on a concrete sidewalk, wearing a green harness and a red leash.

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