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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin

@mother-poet.bsky.social
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She/Her | Poet | 🏳️‍🌈 | ✊️ 🤩 Pushcart Nominated 2025 My work is published in The Chaos Section, where I am poetry co-editor; Loblolly Press; Medicine & Meaning; and a Central Arkansas Library System anthology, with one poem nominated for Best of the Net. 🔞

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The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · 1m
Mark Sebring An Atheist Perspective share.google/RgXmtBSRotny... "Show me one True Christian. Someone who is actually Christ-like. (They seem pretty rare these days.) I will disagree with them. But I’ll probably get along with them just fine." #poetry #booksky #writing #ICE #immigration #NoKings
Original poem by Mark Sebring
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Quote Bot @quotesbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stephen King - “We lie best when we lie to ourselves. #QuoteBot
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 1h
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 3h
#LookAndSee 539 Ghost: Square Hammer
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Ghost - Square Hammer (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by GhostBCVEVO
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
as hunter's moon grows pale green assassin protects the pink blooms #DailyHaikuPrompt #HuntersMoon #Pink #poem #poetry #bloomscrolling #insects #photography #gardening
Assassin bug on my zinnias yesterday
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 15h
Hope could still be found In the sound of crumbling Walls tumbling down. #vss365 #sound #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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Nick Allison @nickallison80.bsky.social · 6h
Apparently, the qualifications for press secretary are illiteracy and dressing like a British admiral from the 1800s?
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wonderingfree.bsky.social @wonderingfree.bsky.social · 18h
Living means learning to hold the astonishingly beautiful and unbearably hard things in the same palm -Suleika Jaouad #photography #bloomscrolling #nature #imageandverse #naturephotography
A close capture of a dahlia from the garden, its petals almost translucent in the background, soft cream petals with a golden centre.
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 10h
never flinch the king still spinning gold #haikufeels #prompt #flinch #haiku #poetry #StephenKing #NeverFlinch #HollyGibney #novels #booksky @stephenking.bsky.social 🖤
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 9h
Parks and Rec friends holla - it's Treat Yo Self Day 2026! How are you treating yourself today? I'm going to have some cake.
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Batman: I Gotta Treat Myself
ALT: Batman: I Gotta Treat Myself
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alenux.bsky.social @alenux.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“It’s liking that got lost, and love without liking is like a chain with a manacle at each end.” — If It Bleeds, Stephen King #IfItBleeds #StephenKing #HollyGibney #BookQuotes #CurrentlyReading #ReadingNotes #LiteraryReflection
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 10h
never flinch the king still spinning gold #haikufeels #prompt #flinch #haiku #poetry #StephenKing #NeverFlinch #HollyGibney #novels #booksky @stephenking.bsky.social 🖤
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God @thegodshow.com · 12/10/2026
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
autumnal tilt our moods shift with the sun #haikufeels #haiku #autumn #mabon #samhain #poetry
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chelchell @chelchell.bsky.social · 19h
Don’t play around with someone who has been refining their pattern recognition since they were a child because of trauma
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 21h
I think part of the problem is that choice is a capacity, not a constant. When the nervous system is taxed too heavily, our field narrows until reaction begins replacing deliberation. We can insist people should choose differently, but many are on autopilot long before they realize it.
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Half-Boo'd Rhymes @halfbakedrhymes.com · 21h
new vocal stim acquired.
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The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · 22h
Cam Whelr MD Demilitarize Your Tongue share.google/DscAKuqxXbJu... "First, you must undupe your mind's ear of all the tyrants' metaphors of war. Uproot combat's weeds from your core. They've choked you since the Before before this violent Now." #poetry #booksky #NoKings #VOTE #Resist #ICE #trump
Original poem by Cam Whelr MD
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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 23h
sometimes I have to remind myself that it’s ok to ask for help
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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
evening sun sets painting the delta in red orange and yellow #haiku #poetry #vss365
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
migration near - diving, the kites on the warm wind #haiku #birds #poetry #autumn
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
(I meant that as 1/2) The "how do I heal?" as "how do I move on from who I used to be?" You don't. You carry all versions of yourself with you. You love them, flaws and all. You forgive them. You learn. That is how you heal. Not through erasing them. By walking with them and holding their hand. 2/2
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Love this. On another hand, we might also have more grace for others than for ourselves. Also, on a very relevant note, I listened to this song this morning and heard it in a different light than I had before. I thought of it, as I sang to myself, as a song to the younger versions of me. 1/1
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Evanescence - How Do I Heal (Official Visualizer)
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Serena🪞🧿✨ @alethianstrata.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You can’t stop other people from being abusive. You can’t love, shame, or discipline them enough to make them change. The individual must decide to behave differently. The only abuse you can directly interrupt is self-abuse, and that changes what you recognize, tolerate, and repeat.
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I wrote a version of this earlier without the hopeful transition. I much prefer this. Thankful for the hopeful energy that breathed life into today. #hope #poetry #poem #poet #spring #flowers ##RESIST
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
one day when I look back on this life a final time I hope to see that I have made a difference #poetry
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Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
*not my content*
Found on Facebook, not sure who made it
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The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Kerfe Roig Comrades share.google/HmV5xmtV412J... "Who knows us? Who sees us as real? Who will call us by our true names? cold as ICE these masks without human faces hiding behind guns" #poetry #haibun #haiku #NoKings #VOTE #booksky #writing #politics #ICE #immigration #protest
Original poem by Kerfe Roig
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Tori Gallagher @rockingpines.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
another October rereading Ray Bradbury trusting the stories #senryusunday #senryu
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Tori Gallagher @rockingpines.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
my autistic sons riding the Tilt-a-Whirl over and over #haikufeels #haiku #senryu
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Nick Allison @nickallison80.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Went down the well of strong female singers tonight and landed here... Goodnight 🌙
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Shut Up
YouTube video by New Years Day - Topic
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Well, I couldn't find the old poem I was looking for in my posts, but I found a bunch of other stuff that made me go "yassss queen," so I am sorry for all the re-posts 😂
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Sorry... Well, Not Really
ALT: Sorry... Well, Not Really
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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The #tarot card that resonates most strongly with today’s #vss365 prompt, #calm is Temperance. It symbolizes moderation, balance and harmony.
A tarot card titled Temperance. Here, an angel pours liquid from one chalice to another.
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Hege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
autumn storm a hemorrhage of reds #dailyHaikuPrompt (bleed) #senryu #haiku #3lines #micropoetry
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Half-Boo'd Rhymes @halfbakedrhymes.com · 11/10/2026
If this isn't the whole truth of it
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
*not my content*
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
*not my content*
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Been thinking a lot along these lines. *not my content*
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Getting better at this. And if I give you a second chance after what seems like a sincere apology and you fuck *that* up? I probably won't believe yet another apology, even if I want to believe you and even try. "Don't try to change them. Don't try to deny it." *not my content*
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
*not my content * #poetry
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Let’s keep giving her strength. You can not stop an ARMY of survivors.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
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yeeorjanedoe poems @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Make art when you're upset about politics or life in general or heck even when you're happy just make art
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Re-sharing for today's #PoetsOfDoom prompt #MurderMystery. #poetry #horror #dreams
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