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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

For once, I want eight great days all lined up in a row ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 📖 This poem is from the section about depression in my mental health poetry book 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 #poetry #poetrybooks #poetrybook

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Poetry prompt: Write about a time when you experienced a strong emotion that came and went very suddenly. #poets #poetryprompt #poetryprompts

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Poetry prompt: Pick a word that has 2 different meanings and incorporate both into a poem. #poetryprompts #poetry #poetryprompt

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Poetry prompt: Write a poem about someone you haven’t talked to in years. #poetry #poetryprompt #poetryprompts

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Poetry prompt: Use the following words in a poem: fate, marble, flood. #poetry #poetryprompt #poetryprompts

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Poetry prompt: Write a poem about a mundane task like folding laundry, washing dishes, paying bills, etc. #poetry #poetryprompts #poetryprompt

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Poetry prompt: Write a poem about meeting your childhood best friend. #poet #poetry #poetryprompt

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Poetry prompt: Write about drowning in something other than water. #poets #poetry #poet

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is one of my favorite shorter #poems from my book "Grey Matters." When I write about mental illness, I like to focus on things that are difficult to put into words. For this poem, it’s the feeling of numbness. ⁣ ⁣ Have you ever felt this way?

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

a #poem about the importance of acknowledging how far you’ve come

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

a #poem about the feelings of guilt that can come with depression

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

a #poem for anyone who struggles with setting boundaries

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If you’ve outgrown your old self, this #poem is for you ❤️‍🩹⁣

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Feminine rage, but make it 🧙‍♀️🐦‍⬛🌱🦷 I really like ambiguous endings 🖤 #poetry #poem #newpoem

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

📚: Tidal Pools and Other Small Infinities by Kristen Costello #poetry #poem #poems

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Poetry Gal @poetrygal.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Today, I’ve become a butterfly uprising – black and orange, pink and white, a flutter of fervor a flurry of flight. -Cracking Cocoons #poems #poetry #poem

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 05/02/2025

I quit Substack. My newsletter is now here, please read it and subscribe. THANKS. www.leahreich.com/technology-i...

Do you know why it feels bad to use the platforms you use, and why it used to feel better? Why year on year things seem like they're getting more awful, with fewer options? Because there is literally nothing human about growth at the rate of millions of users a month, a week, a day. No human experience has ever been designed for a billion people, and no human experience can be designed for a billion people. You cannot be a human in a system or on a platform that allows you to engage with thousands of people and millions of opinions, thoughts, ideas – especially when there are no standards or norms, no tools that help you moderate, mediate, disengage.

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I watered all the flowers except for me and wondered why I wilted. - Pouring #poem #micropoetry #poems

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

From Billy Collins's book, The Apple That Astonished Paris: bookshop.org/a/862/978155... #poem #poetry #billycollins #books

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Poetry Living @poetryliving.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be."

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A poem about consumerism and anxiety that I wrote around the time of Omnicron #poetry #anxiety #poem

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nico @nicoxrette.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hi! I’d love to create a starter pack to connect poets and poetry lovers. Please let me know if you’d like to join— I need at least 7 people to make one. #poets #poetry #writtenword #poetsky #writers

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A poem about celebrating small victories from “Grey Matters,” my mental health poetry book #poem #mentalhealth #poetrybook

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My first starter pack for Indie Poets! Please pass this along and reach out if you'd like to be included 😊 #poetry #indiepoets #poets #poet go.bsky.app/Laz8hex

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I seemed to have misplaced my sense of purpose for a couple years – but it’s okay, I came across it the other day when I was cleaning out my purse. A part of me always knew where it was – I just needed to find the courage to brush off my dust and begin again. -Lost and Found #poem #poetry

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Poem for today. From @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's book, Good Bones: bookshop.org/a/862/978194... #poetry #books #maggiesmith #writing

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Another day, another daze. Eyes forward, eyes open without sight. I am driftwood – rootless, random. Ruthless routine. Nothing. Feels. Appealing. -Numb #poetry #poem #sadpoetry

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I am melting but I’ve decided not to step away from the sun. I was forced into this mold by rough, red hands, but it’s time to let my wax liquefy so I can reform into the shape I choose. -Icarus #poetry #poem #poems

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Kristen Costello | Author | Poet @kristencostello.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Today, I’ve become a butterfly uprising – black and orange, pink and white, a flutter of fervor a flurry of flight. -Cracking Cocoons #poetry #poem #poems

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