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Valerie Loveland

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Poet! AuDHD! She/her!

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Joker using ChatGPT to generate some new insulting/disrespectful nicknames for Batman

19.04.2025 12:10 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Contemporary is my favorite. What about you?

21.04.2025 11:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Poetry month is my favorite time of the year because I love getting a contact high off everyone's creative energy.

Who is doing a 30/30 for Poetry Month?

31.03.2025 22:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Nicest Swamp on the Internet Reddit’s not perfect, but it may be the best platform on a junky web.

β€œWhat Reddit does… is give ppl a space that they can create + collectively control, and where they can ask one another question after question after question, in every possible permutation… But the only 2 ?s that ppl ever really ask on Reddit, if you think abt it, are these: Am I alone? Am I okay?”

22.03.2025 05:03 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Waking Ruin

By Rachel Abramowitz

Keep close to mirrors, says wolf.
          Reach up from your mere bones toward
the bile-black night, says beetle.

What a naive bunch, says a thing
          passing through the garden on hind legs,
boiling in a dream. I've got a sweet tangle

for you, okay, it plants grasses like you wouldn't
         believe. (I'm on quiet fire in this garden,
the rosemary nips at me, the insects sniff

behind my ears.) Listen, lie here, under
          this hedge, let it cover you like a nightgown.
(Inside the jar of my head, such a three-

headed lion!) I subtract you (worm of my speech),
          unhook your eyelids, lay still as a cabbage.
(The trees know me.) (Reader, they know me.)

Waking Ruin By Rachel Abramowitz Keep close to mirrors, says wolf. Reach up from your mere bones toward the bile-black night, says beetle. What a naive bunch, says a thing passing through the garden on hind legs, boiling in a dream. I've got a sweet tangle for you, okay, it plants grasses like you wouldn't believe. (I'm on quiet fire in this garden, the rosemary nips at me, the insects sniff behind my ears.) Listen, lie here, under this hedge, let it cover you like a nightgown. (Inside the jar of my head, such a three- headed lion!) I subtract you (worm of my speech), unhook your eyelids, lay still as a cabbage. (The trees know me.) (Reader, they know me.)

β€œReach up from your mere bones” A poem by Rachel Abramowitz.

22.03.2025 01:57 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Omg Tove Ditlevsen is DEVASTATING and AMAZING.

I will check these out thanks!

22.03.2025 00:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you need tables or counters (or dressers, or desks, or vanities)cleared, Nora can help you with this!

21.03.2025 10:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi poetry fiends (not a typo), who is celebrating poetry month with a 30/30? I always try one and i's one of my favorite things.

(also interested in any of your plans to read specific amounts of poetry or certain books. Basically I am saying: please talk to me about poetry and with your poems)

21.03.2025 10:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A parody of the "friendship ended" meme; the text says, "Friendship ended with Mardi Gras. Now Halloween is my best friend." I'm standing on the right, shaking hands with my eyeball creature costume on the left. In the lower left and right are two smaller pictures of my gargoyle Mardi Gras costume from this year, with big X's crossing them out.

A parody of the "friendship ended" meme; the text says, "Friendship ended with Mardi Gras. Now Halloween is my best friend." I'm standing on the right, shaking hands with my eyeball creature costume on the left. In the lower left and right are two smaller pictures of my gargoyle Mardi Gras costume from this year, with big X's crossing them out.

Ash Wednesday

05.03.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My poem "Into The Machine" & one by my friend @valerieloveland.bsky.social are in the new Science Fiction Special Issue of SNAKESKIN edited by Jessy Randall!

www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk

01.03.2025 23:44 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I should look into this, thanks

27.02.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have to read this novel about the haunted Morrissey poster

27.02.2025 02:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love Sam & Max! Is it the old game or a new one?

27.02.2025 02:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Section of Gina Myers's Works & Days

Section of Gina Myers's Works & Days

Section of Gina Myers's Works & Days

Section of Gina Myers's Works & Days

Section of Gina Myers's Works & Days

Section of Gina Myers's Works & Days

Love Gina Myers's long poem Works & Days that is in American Poetry Review

27.02.2025 02:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Yellow cabled and bobbled scarf in progress, on knitting needles

Yellow cabled and bobbled scarf in progress, on knitting needles

Yellow cabled and bobbled scarf in progress, on knitting needles

Yellow cabled and bobbled scarf in progress, on knitting needles

Things in my life I can control

27.02.2025 01:57 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dear Lonnie Musk,

I can tell you five things I *didn’t* do this week:

- give you up
- let you down
- run around and desert you
- make you cry
- say goodbye

And a sixth bonus:

- tell a lie and hurt you

Best,

Dz. Nutz

23.02.2025 12:21 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Dreamed I got a poetry rejection from Fogo De ChΓ£o.

23.02.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Kris and I watched a documentary on the artist Aldwyth, who assembles huge amazing collages. I never heard of her before and I feel like my brain is on fire.

20.02.2025 02:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Two tips of socks on one needle. The sock are various shades of gray

Two tips of socks on one needle. The sock are various shades of gray

Trying to knit socks again and it is still annoying

20.02.2025 02:36 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
3 panel stand up cardboard presentation about which denture adhesive is best

3 panel stand up cardboard presentation about which denture adhesive is best

3 panel stand up cardboard presentation about which denture adhesive is best

3 panel stand up cardboard presentation about which denture adhesive is best

3 panel stand up cardboard presentation about which denture adhesive is best

3 panel stand up cardboard presentation about which denture adhesive is best

Saw this at school today

20.02.2025 01:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What is this cat's name?

18.02.2025 11:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Blue background with an eye that is looking to the right. Text says Neighborhood Watch We look out for each other

Blue background with an eye that is looking to the right. Text says Neighborhood Watch We look out for each other

Wrote a poem about the Neighborhood Watch Eye.

17.02.2025 01:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I always marry Harvey, just like I always date Harveys IRL.

17.02.2025 01:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure if it was my mouse or keyboard or google's unwanted AI angel, but it deleted my poem one letter at a time, quickly. I could get an older version that still had everything but needed to redo some editing.

17.02.2025 01:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't know you were into Stardew! Did you marry anyone?

14.02.2025 11:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Poem: Intersection

Poem: Intersection

Danielle Legros Georges

14.02.2025 02:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow

13.02.2025 14:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Fluffy gray cat curled in a cat bed

Fluffy gray cat curled in a cat bed

This baby is staying in our boiler until the snow melts. Glad he is finally using this bed! (PS his fur is always a mess by the end of winter but the mess is happening early this year)

13.02.2025 01:06 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I played the first time with Civ 6, and since I spent one million hours playing it, I can definitely say Civ 6 is worth playing.

12.02.2025 22:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0