Poem part 1 of 3 And this is not what I planned being stuck on the shore of just what we need my feet glued in wet sand forced to stand and then watch
as my children are stranded with sad, leftover meals and leftover me as I watch “precious moments” get washed out to sea

and I try to cling on but you know how it goes hold all of time’s sand and into wind it just flows as inevitably as the bulge in my heart when the kids still look up with that trust and that hope

asking me to build castles and other joys in the sand but I’m caught in the nature of slippery tasks at my hand keeping us all above water while losing grip on the land this is not what I planned this is not what I planned

Hope you can't relate.

P.S Waiting to publish a poetry collection about Work while facing unemployment and your own burnout is a whole type of weird fuckery.

#Poetry #Capitalism #Work #Burnout #Parenting

Poem written in light cream text on a dark burgundy colour: "I lived under the cheap glow of the microwave clock that still singes the edges of my eyes all these years later. For evert time someone told me to 'enjoy every precious moment' I would lose myself in weeks" Poem by Ruth Rostrup from the book More than Motherhood.

Still feeling the heat of those micrawaved minutes, six and a half years later.

📕 from the book Mor(e) than Motherhood - www.amazon.co.uk/more-than-mo...

#Motherhood #Womanhood #Poetry

Poem part one of three: When the meeting becomes cloaked in shadow, blabber spill the dreamers seize a glance.  We lay leaves of ink in the edges of notebooks.  Nurtured, tendered chance. Dot tiny weightless seeds in all the blustery business plans.

We whisper pencil secrets 
— ideas 
we grow in the narrowest of margins between the lines in the most unassuming empty spaces we can find.

Room by room. Square by square. We curate visionary worlds on stolen paper  breaths of air. - Poem by Ruth Rostrup, from her upcoming collection called ' Mor(e) than Work'

YOU DON'T HATE MONDAYS.
Join me and start planting seeds in the margins 🌱

This piece is from 'Mor(e) than Work' - Coming Soon.
Dedicated to the creative dreamers sat in corporate meetings. There's more of us than you realise 🌊.

#Poetry #Work #ArtistLife #Capitalism #WriterCommunity #Creativity

Poem: "I'd trade every star / in the godly night sky / to save my friend's hope / keep the glimmer / in her eyes." by Ruth Rostrup (me).

[From the drafts]
Sure, the universe is vast and beautiful - But seeing the glint in your friend's eyes as she talks about something that brings her joy? Nothing compares.

#Poetry #Burnout #Friendship

Soz brb. Writing y'all a poetry collection about living (and creating) in late stage capitalism/tech feudalism/whatever the fuck this is.
Will make a home for it here on Bluesky when it's ready 💙

#indieauthor #booksky #stillhere

The Sacred Everyday Creative Life (For the ones carrying it all) For the overwhelmed, burned out creative soul who’s in a life season of survival mode.

A love letter from one overwhelmed creative to another (you).

I started it weeks ago, weaving it slowly through the cracks and chaos of this messy season of my life. And maybe that’s what makes it matter even more.

#Writer #WritingCommunity #Artist #Creative #Capitalism #Motherhood

A poem is displayed in soft white text on a deep maroon background. It reads: “She holds up oceans in her sleep wakes in sweat, drowned in heat. Saved the world but at what cost? We’ll never know. Under heavy nights, steeped in terror she is lost.” In the lower right corner, it says: Ruth Rostrup Mor(e) than motherhood (psst. It’s really about womanhood)

Postpartum night terrors.

From "Mor(e) than motherhood"
www.amazon.co.uk/more-than-mo...

#Poetry #MoreThanMotherhood #Mom #Postpartum #MentalHealth #BookSky

A poem appears in soft white text on a deep maroon background. It reads: “I leave my body in the company of others and slip away into a blanket of quiet. The banter and laughter of friends that once woke my soul becomes the muffled buzzing of a TV left on in the background of a kids sleepover; you drift off to the plot of a film that fades away. Did time freeze or flutter by? Was it in my safety or solace or overwhelm that my eyes glazed over. You ask ‘Hey, are you ok?’ ‘Yeh, I’m just tired.’ a voice replies, that sounds like mine.” In the lower right corner, it says: Ruth Rostrup Mor(e) than motherhood (psst. It’s really about womanhood)

I leave her in the company of others.

#poem from #MoreThanMotherhood (psst. it's really about womanhood).

💌 Poetry Postcard #5 - (2 min soul break) Fuck all other emails today.

Rebel against all your other emails today. Take a soul break instead.

#poetry #writing #fuckwork

I wrote a raw and heartfelt letter to a fellow creative mother, @leahplotz.bsky.social.
It’s now out in the world on Substack. For you. Just in case you need to hear it too.
💌 leahplotz.substack.com/p/cold-coffe...

#writer #motherhood #poet #writingcommunity

So epic

A poem on a dark maroon background, written in white serif font. The poem reads: "I write myself out over and over again just to convince myself of or remember who I am. The person before the feeling came. But every day it spills out onto my pages until none of my sentences make any sense. And I try to find the words to describe myself in skills and tasks and time spent on actions that are supposed to speak louder than words." In the bottom right corner, it says: "Ruth Rostrup Mor(e) than motherhood (psst. It's really about womanhood)"

Writing to remember who I am. Before the feeling, before the forgetting.

#womanhood #motherhood

This is lovely 💜

A digital graphic with a dark burgundy background features a poem in white serif text. The poem is arranged in short, introspective stanzas, exploring themes of identity, self-expression, and the struggle to define oneself. The text is aligned to the left, with a deliberate use of spacing and line breaks that emphasize the weight of each thought. The poem reads: I write myself out over and over again just to convince myself of or remember who I am. The person before the feeling came. But every day it spills out onto my pages until none of my sentences make any sense. And I try to find the words to describe myself in skills and tasks and time spent on actions that are supposed to speak louder than words. In the lower right corner, the author's name, Ruth Rostrup, is displayed in a smaller serif font, followed by the title "Mor(e) than motherhood". Beneath that, in an even smaller, whisper-like font, it says: "(psst. It’s really about womanhood)", hinting at a deeper exploration of self beyond prescribed roles.

The person before the feeling came.

#burnout #anxiety #Motherhood #mom #writer #poem #booksky #poet #writingcommunity

Thanks for taking the time to comment Francesca 💜

A digital graphic with a dark burgundy background features a poem in white serif text. The poem is arranged in short stanzas, each beginning with the refrain "I wish I could remember", creating a rhythm of longing and contrast between tender moments and painful realities. The text is aligned to the left, leaving negative space on the right, reinforcing a sense of loss and imbalance. The poem reads: I wish I could remember your soft little snores as much as the stitches, the soreness and burns. I wish I could remember your honey satin skin as much as the blood, sweat and never feeling clean. I wish I could remember those cute little hiccups as much as the fucked up breastfeeding and painful pumps. I wish I could remember those enchanting newborn eyes as much as the panic attacks night after night after goddam night. I wish I would have remembered both you and me. In the lower right corner, the author's name, Ruth Rostrup, is displayed in a smaller serif font, followed by the title "Mor(e) than motherhood". Beneath that, in an even smaller, quiet font, it says: "(psst. It’s really about womanhood)", hinting at a deeper, universal theme beyond just motherhood. The dark background contrasts starkly with the white text, intensifying the weight of the poem’s emotional rawness. The structure, with repeated refrains, builds a sense of heartbreak, nostalgia, and the overwhelming duality of early motherhood—love and struggle, beauty and trauma, presence and absence.

I wish 🤍

#Motherhood #postpartum #poem #mom #writer #booksky #writingcommunity

A digital graphic with a dark burgundy background features a short poem in white serif text. The poem is positioned in the upper left corner, leaving most of the space empty, creating a sense of quiet contemplation. The poem reads: My greenhouse body
absorbs grief
through glass skin and bones of tin. I paint my walls with flowers
to hide the rotting earth within. In the lower right corner, the author's name, Ruth Rostrup, is displayed in smaller, subtle serif text, followed by the title "Mor(e) than motherhood". Beneath that, in an even smaller, whisper-like font, it says: "(psst. It’s really about womanhood)", as if revealing a quiet truth. The design is minimalist, with the vast empty space emphasizing the poem’s introspective tone. The contrast between the dark background and the white text draws attention to the delicate yet weighty words.

My greenhouse body 🌷

#motherhood #grief #poem #booksky #writingcommunity #depression #mom #writer

💌 Poetry Postcard #4 (2mins) Dedicated to women.

First things first.
Over 200 people have have signed up to disrupt their inbox with #poetry and words of #inspiration. ✨

Fuck. yes.

This postcard is dedicated to #women, #friendship, and soul sisters.
With poetry from @leahplotz.bsky.social and @nikitagill.bsky.social 💌

Bluesky fam ❤️ I've been MIA in life stuff.
- New job, prepping for citizenship language exam, potential neurospicy diagnosis, sick kids, healthy kids with all the energy, tending to my 2nd book baby -
But I'll be back and sharing Mor(e). IYKYK.
Prepare to be showered with #poetry.

#mom #writing

A digital graphic with a dark burgundy background features a poem in light cream tex in a classic serif font, evoking a serious and poetic tone. The words are spaced out with deliberate line breaks, reinforcing the weight of each phrase. The poem reads: A woman's power. to carry all four seasons within her and only show Spring. To harness raging wildfire and celestial tides wrapped in earth-tone petal skin. At the bottom right corner, the author’s name, Ruth Rostrup, appears in smaller, subtle serif text, followed by the title "Mor(e) than motherhood". Below it, in an even smaller whisper-like font, it says: "(psst. It’s really about womanhood)", as if letting the reader in on a quiet secret. The dark background contrasts starkly with the white text, reinforcing the poem’s theme of hidden sorrow beneath the surface of celebration.

A woman's power.

#poem #poetry #motherhood #women #inspiration #booksky #wrintingcommunity

Such a power move, I love it.

Shoutout to my husband for liking all of my posts on here.
My one-man engagement farm. My dedicated like bot. My algorithmic emotional support system. 🫡

Thank yooouuuu 🥰

Mor(e) more than motherhood Buy Mor(e) more than motherhood by Rostrup, Ruth (ISBN: 9798812032920) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

From 'Mor(e) than Motherhood:'
www.amazon.co.uk/more-than-mo...

A digital graphic with a dark burgundy background features a poem in white text. The title, "WELCOME TO THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE", is in a playful, handwritten-style font at the top, giving a sense of forced cheerfulness. The rest of the poem is in a classic serif font, evoking a more serious and poetic tone. The words are spaced out with deliberate line breaks, reinforcing the weight of each phrase. The poem reads: "WELCOME TO THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE" strung hurriedly to all the rooms in our minds. IV streamers, gaslit balloons paint the cracks with artificial, sickening syrup in pinks and blues. At the door, we’ll inject our faces with Instagram filters ‘cus God forbid we show that when we show up to the best day of our lives it’s grief not joy wrapped up in wholesale plastic bows. At the bottom right corner, the author’s name, Ruth Rostrup, appears in smaller, subtle serif text, followed by the title "Mor(e) than motherhood". Below it, in an even smaller whisper-like font, it says: "(psst. It’s really about womanhood)", as if letting the reader in on a quiet secret. The dark background contrasts starkly with the white text, reinforcing the poem’s theme of hidden sorrow beneath the surface of celebration.

You are more than the grief. More than the joy.

#Motherhood #Poem #Poetry #BookSky

In the centre of the image, my book proudly stands! The cover is a bold maroon. In large, white capital letters in the top centre is the title "More" with the 'e' in parenthesis. The sub text, in the same but smaller text says "than motherhood." Underneath is a line drawing of a woman's hands coming down from the title, the fingers hand softly. Her index finger is being held by a baby's hand. Their touch is soft but reassuring. The lines are a crisp cream with some soft shading to add a 3D feeling. My name is in small white text at the bottom centre, "Ruth Rostrup". Twisting around all the elements is a subtle, dark red, twirly vine. Adorned with small leaves and twirling little offshoots. It starts in the top left and spirals to the bottom right, twirling around the hands. A secret for any alt text readers: this vine will continue onwards across the cover of the next book in the series. // Above the book image is large text that reads "New cover. Same brutality and beauty". // On each side of the book are 5 star reviews. Underneath the book it reads "A unique reading experience from both sides of labour, postpartum, and depression."

She's here 😭 I wrote 'Mor(e) than Motherhood' when I was in the depths of postpartum depression. I'm so proud of her. And me. 🤍

Shoutout to @mldesigns.bsky.social for the beautiful new cover.

#BookCover #BookSky #IndieBooks #Poetry #Motherhood #Writer #Author #HappyDance

Gentle reminders for creatives with a lot going on. For anyone trying to juggle the big pull of creativity with the even bigger demands of life.

Overwhelmed artists and writers, I see you ❤️

#writingcommunity #artist #mentalhealth #writersky #creative #Motherhood #parenting

You guys. My book 'Mor(e) than motherhood' is getting a new cover soon and it's BEAUTIFUL and ARRGGHH I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO SHOW YOU!

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #FuckYeh

Transforms the rest of my day. Now, if I can only become one of those 5am people... 🫠