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Jay Whitman

@soulofwhit.bsky.social
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I write poetry. Yes, I know it’s not very good. Thanks for being here, I love you.

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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
You try to make them just like you Half-empty glasses of unrealized potential So that maybe it doesn’t hurt so bad That you just peaked early You’re the only one who cares That you’ll never be nothing enough Scratching your favorite song lyrics on bullets You’re too scared to put in your brain
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The thing about a love language is We never get taught the rules How to diagram a love sentence What part of speech is acts of service So when love languages differ It's a natural thing How could you understand a dialect you've never heard?
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Why do we lie to each other If truth would serve us better Little white lies we tell Like “I love you” When we both know that I don’t love you anymore And you never loved me in the first place
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Beauty You are ripe on the branch. I reach to grab you But I am not a tall man. Lover You are ripe on the branch. I shake the tree But you do not fall. Angel You are ripe on the branch. I cry out to you But you cannot hear.
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Oh my love I try to tell you but I don’t have the words for your beauty Not like they do Your lips ripe plums Your skin the color of your drink Oro
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I thought about what you said About your life Whether it was worth living And the sky opened up for you I think about you, little fairy Flitting about in the sky Above the clouds Where the rain can’t touch you
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I’ll be in my bunk I joke without lying Reading Neruda’s Sonnet 17 I wonder if he somehow knew us Or if love is just ineffable like that
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I always thought I understood time The inexorable march forward A monotonic function from birth to death Each ticking second measured by atomic clock But now I worry I never understood How many weeks are in twenty years? Somehow, fewer than there are in two months.
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
What use did the world have for love songs before you were born? Thousands of hollow words, spoken into the wind that all sprang to life one day. You were always their purpose.
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Did they know what they were making with you? Your porcelain skin and wonder-filled eyes Beauty ripped from poetry I’ve scaled the walls around your fragile heart Fallen from them countless times For eighteen years I’ve watched them grow and crumble Besieged by forces old and new
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Which Carolina are you in now And his name is Matt, right? Or is it Nick? Wherever you are I’m sure you’re reading a book A work of contemporary fiction Something Melissa Broder would like And you can return it to the library With dogeared pages Just like me
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
#poetry #poetrysky #poem
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Unfortunately, yes.
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Like a Lana Del Rey song Sexy and miserable and haunting and Everyone thinks you were written just for them
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blayne the hag @ewhag.com · 09/07/2025
my bitey poem, bitch, was accepted to be published in the @trashlightpress.bsky.social notes app poetry series 🖤 catch it july 29
A dog's lip is lifted in a growl to reveal fangs. Over the image in green is the word BITCH
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Jay Whitman @soulofwhit.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I like it better when you’re gone So I can chase the phantom of who I want you to be Instead of being haunted by who you are
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