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Angel

@everlastinglight.bsky.social
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30-something Mexican-American writing for fun. Love my dog way too much. Life is hard enough, let’s try to have each other’s backs. And tell me what you think about my writing!

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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thank you, I wasn’t sure if I liked it in this version. But I think the length gives it a nice distancing/impact.
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thank you 🙏
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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 · 15/08/2026
Thank you and neither did I! But once I saw one I kept seeing more, they’re so talented 🩷
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In Spanish: Este lo dedico a los abuelitos que cantan canciones viejitas de mariachi en TikTok Live #poesia
El Músico

En un pueblo que yo nunca conocí 
Toca una guitarra y
Canta, suavecito
Convirtiendo mi sangre en miel calientita. 

Llena mi corazón 
De una dulzura lenta y profunda.
Apuesto a que podría darle una mordida
Y sé que su sabor sería

Como un mango bien maduro
Después de haber estado bajo el sol.
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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 · 31/07/2026
A poem about heatstrokes and sun allergies. Thanks for the prompt, @andyperrincycling.bsky.social #vss365 - #arrive @vss365hq.bsky.social #poetry #poetsofbluesky
Vitamin D Deficiency

I don’t know what I did to make you so angry. 
Last time we met.

When your searing bites tore
Chunks of my flesh
And ripped every thought
Right out of my skull. 

Arriving in a broken, bleeding haze
To my sick bed,
I PROMISED
You would never see me again. 

But here I am.
And immediately your soft warm kisses
Land upon my shoulders.
They trace their way to my fingertips. 

I missed you.
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A poem about immigrant families watching the news. @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #ExitWounds #poetry #poetsofbluesky
Mom calls me on the phone.
“They’re saying it might rain.”
Low chances it hits us.
We don rain coats all the same.

In case of clouds
Weeping thick red drops.
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A poem about immigrant families watching the news. @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #ExitWounds #poetry #poetsofbluesky
Mom calls me on the phone.
“They’re saying it might rain.”
Low chances it hits us.
We don rain coats all the same.

In case of clouds
Weeping thick red drops.
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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 · 05/11/2025
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a man is crying while looking at a picture of three cartoon characters
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🤣
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Thank you kindly ❤️
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Good morning ☀️
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Facts
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween 🎃💖
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Thank you, I really appreciate that. Not a fan of gooeyness myself haha
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I do love when ghosts are described not as terrors, but as who they likely were in life: smiles, songs, and often pretty mundane.
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Its starkness, tone, and even the vertical columns created by the format almost create a sense of a wall that the victim has put up between themself and what was done to them. Beautiful and heartbreaking.
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Thank you so much ❤️
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Thank you!
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
❤️
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
😂
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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 · 31/10/2025
* Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I didn’t know they sold costumes of me.
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
😂
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
💯
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Buenas noches 🌙
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
flyyyy
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
💖💖💖
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Post soup pics 🍲
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A poem about power. And a submission for #poemsabout #blood Thanks @alanparry83.bsky.social and @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #poetsofbluesky #poetry #tyranny
Consolation

I look up to you in your golden tower
Bought in blood and bones
Feeling no comfort nor faith
That one day you will atone.

But I have one single thought,
Always warms my broken heart.
Time is just.
And one day we’ll both be dust.
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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 · 25/08/2025
Thank you so much ❤️
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Thank you kindly
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Good morning ☀️
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
😂
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I love this
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
😂
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If you made those into tea, would they have as much flavor as red hibiscus?
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A poem about over-reliance on anger. #poetsofbluesky #poetry #vss365 - #charm #vssdaily - #cymbal
The Leech

A loser offering me a ride home 
On his motorcycle
After a long shitty day.
“I’ll just take you where you’re headed.”

Honestly? It felt cool and it was fun, 
My heart bouncing like a cymbal.

Til I realized I’d held on too long.
And gave up too much.
And I had other things
I was supposed to be doing.

What can I say?
Rage has a certain charm.
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🔥🔥🔥
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I come bearing good news! You can do whatever you want 💖🥳
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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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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I respect that.
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Thank you kindly 💖
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Angel @everlastinglight.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Aw thanks so much
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