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Riles

@riles-writes.bsky.social
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poems from a recovering overthinker with too many feelings. love, God, grief, recovery & the weird business of becoming a person.

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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Don’t make me easier to remember than I was to know. Leave the contradictions in.” -When I Die I don’t want to be remembered as perfect, I was to be remembered accurately. #Poetry #SkyPoet #Poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Sometimes I got tired of becoming. Sometimes I just wanted to be loved before I improved anything.” Maybe we deserve to be loved in the middle of our growing, too. #Poetry #SkyPoet #PoetryCommunity #LovePoetry #WritingCommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Morning always came too quickly. And when the sky started turning gray the world would return. Responsibilities. Rules. The reasons we weren’t supposed to be doing this.” -Nights in the Van #Poetry #LovePoetry #SkyPoet #PoetryCommunity #WritersOfBluesky
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“People always want damaged things for cheap.” He placed my heart on the counter. “Doesn’t mean they’re worth less.” -I Found My Heart in a Pawn Shop A reminder for anyone who learned to measure their worth by what happened to them. #Poetry #SkyPoet #PoetryCommunity #Healing #SelfWorth
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I wanted penance. Instructions. A receipt. Something difficult enough to make returning to myself feel earned. Instead, God came and sat on the floor beside me.” -God Keeps a Lost and Found #Poetry #FaithPoetry #SkyPoet #PoetryCommunity #Grace
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Some things I took back. The anger. The poems. The word no. The laugh.” -God Keeps a Lost and Found #Poetry #SkyPoet #FaithPoetry #PoetryCommunity #Healing
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Maybe that’s how a heart disappears. Not dramatically. Not with someone ripping it from your chest. Maybe you just keep handing out small pieces until one day you reach inside yourself and there’s nothing there.” I Found My Heart in a Pawn Shop #Poetry #SkyPoet #PoetryCommunity #LovePoetry
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rereading A Madness so Discreet by Mindy McGinnis today at work. Anyone have any book recs for when I finish this? #bookrecs #books
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“There are truths you spend your whole life needing to hear that become almost unbearable when someone finally says them.” Maybe some truths hurt not because they’re cruel, but because we deserved to hear them much sooner. #Poetry #SkyPoet #PoetryCommunity #Healing #WritersOfBluesky
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“At how many years I spent calling survival a personality.” Sometimes you survive something for so long that you forget which parts are you—and which parts were just trying to keep you alive. #Poetry #SkyPoet #PoetryCommunity #Healing #WritingCommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“I had spent so long looking at where I’d been hurt that I hadn’t noticed I wasn’t bleeding anymore.” Sometimes healing happens quietly enough that the scars are the last ones to find out. #Poetry #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #Healing #WritingCommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“How long would You have kept mine?” I asked. God looked up. “As long as it took.” — God Keeps a Lost and Found For anyone who has ever worried they’ve been gone too long to find their way home. #Poetry #FaithPoetry #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maybe the most intimate thing isn’t being desired. Maybe it’s being seen beneath all the things you were told made you dangerous- and being loved without being asked to become harmless first. #Poetry #LovePoetry #DarkPoetry #SkyPoet #PoetryCommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“I no longer want to consume you. I want the unbearable privilege of watching you exist. I want to know what your face looks like when it goes older. I want your gray hair on my pillow. Your tired hands. Your stories I’ve already heard a thousand times.” -Succubus #poetry #mythoughts
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“For a few hours the rest of our lives stayed outside the doors.” -Nights in the Van Maybe that’s what love becomes- A small place where the rest of the world isn’t allowed in. #poetry #Lovepoetry #Skypoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“trying to understand why something that felt so much like love could exist in a place that looked so much like goodbye.” — Nights in the Van. #Poetry #LovePoetry #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A small Monday reminder: You are allowed to be a work in progress and still make plans. To be uncertain And still move forward. To have bad days Inside a life You are grateful to be living. #poetry #skypoet #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #mondaythoughts
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I used to think healing meant I would stop remembering. Now I think it means I can remember without needing to go back and rescue the person I used to be. She made it. I am the proof. #Poetry #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #Healing
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“I spent years calling it strength when really I had just gotten good at hurting quietly.” There is a difference between surviving something and healing from it. #Poetry #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #Healing
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Every mistake. Every hard lesson. Every scar. Bricks laid beneath my feet.” -What Remains Maybe the things that almost broke us become part of what we stand on. #poetry #SkyPoet #PoetryCommunity #Healing #Becoming
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think some wounds don’t disappear- we just stop building our lives around them. #Poetry #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think there’s something beautiful about being known in the small ways— how you take your coffee, which songs you never skip, what makes you laugh when you’re trying not to, the stories you’ve told a hundred times. Maybe love is just someone paying attention. #poetry #writersky #micropoetry
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I keep waiting to become the woman I’ve been working toward, and then I catch her in little moments— Maybe becoming doesn’t happen all at once. Maybe one day you just realize she’s already here. #Poetry #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #Becoming #WritersOfBluesky
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“And the woman staring back looked less like a stranger and more like home.” — The Woman in the Mirror #Poetry #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #Healing #SelfDiscovery
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Some nights I am proud of how far I’ve come. Other nights, I am still grieving the version of me who had to survive long enough to get here. I think both can be healing. #Poetry #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #LateNightThoughts #Healing
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Maybe I am not asking for too much. Maybe I have just spent too much time asking the wrong people.” Some lessons take me longer than others. #Poetry #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Healing
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Healing has always felt that way to me. Slow enough to be mistaken for nothing.” - What Remains For anyone who needs the reminder: becoming doesn’t always look like progress while you’re in the middle of it. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SkyPoet #BlueSkyPoetry #Healing #WritingCommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
These legs have gotten me out of bed on mornings when my heart wanted nothing to do with the day. These feet have taken me into rooms I was afraid to enter and how how brought me home again. #poetry #poemquote
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Maybe this is my first lifetime- It would explain the wonder, The way I still look up at the sky like it might answer me. #poem #skypoet #writer #quoteoftheday
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"How cruel, this imagination.
It builds cathedrals to grief from splinters.
It hangs funeral clothes inside ordinary afternoons.
It teaches my heart to sprint when no one has fired the gun.
Inside me every disagreement is an execution."
-Before the Echo Dies
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lesson Five: Know there are things he once loved that did not love him back. Do not be jealous of them. They knew how to make the world quiet. They knew how to ask nothing of him except everything. You cannot compete with oblivion. Good. You were never meant to. #poem #writer #writingcommunity
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I search every face For proof that I am enough. Mine is the last one. #haiku
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Riles @riles-writes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I made this little corner of the internet because I write poems about the things I don’t always know how to say out loud. I’m not sure what this page will become yet, but I think that’s kind of the point. Here’s to letting the words leave my notes app. #Poetry #SkyPoet
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