"If I die tomorrow,
my mother will hear it before anyone ever tells her.
In the way the morning refuses to arrive;
in the way the house forgets how to breathe—
something inside her will break..." #poetry by Fatmaha Lindawati medium.com/lit-up/if-i-... in the Lit Up press #litpub & #poetrycommunity
"Orange
filled the sky
and no one argued
too yellow
or too red..."
Sunsets Are Not Political by Jen Smat medium.com/lit-up/sunse... #poetry in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"You say I don’t believe in anything
Because I don’t pray to the old gods,
Or the new ones
I don’t credit every tragedy
As serving a higher purpose
I don’t look to the sky to save me
From manmade violence..."
#poetry by Crystal Jackson medium.com/lit-up/you-s... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub
"...How acolytes crawled on septicemic shards of glass for
One lick
Of libidinous lips hexing their appellation..."
Heterozygous by Edward Swafford medium.com/lit-up/heter... #poetry #LGBTQ in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Support #poets #readandshare #poems
"...How hideous I am, in my perennial outfit of pond scum. Green and flat and dull..."
I Am a Retention Pond by Leni Quinn medium.com/lit-up/i-am-... strange #fiction in the Lit Up press #litpub & #readingcommunity
#read and share a #story today
"In a quiet room
where colors flowed,
the patients painted
words unspoken,
judgment-free..."
Through art, their souls knew
Art Therapy by @mftulin.bsky.social medium.com/lit-up/art-t... #poetry #arttherapy #healing in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"He shines like the sun,
smiles like there’s too much brightness
inside him
to contain the damage..."
In Between The Sheets by No Blabs medium.com/lit-up/in-be... #poetry in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
sharing #poems feeds souls
"...I worked until my hands learned its shape,
And every morning I offer the best of myself,
Like a gift wrapped in routine..."
The Gilded Leash by Adedokun Eniola medium.com/lit-up/the-g...
#poetry #belonging #wageslave in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
“...On the floor interrupting that flow lies a man. You’d be hard pressed to identify him…”
Little Sister
a dark #story from Martyn Sullivan medium.com/lit-up/littl... #horror #fiction in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
"Shelly nearly falls down the last three rungs of the ladder. She slips to the ground, stumbles across the dirty floor..."
#scifi #drama #fiction and #poetry all rolled together in the latest episode
MITChell by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/lit-up/mitch...
in Lit Up #readingcommunity #litpub
"The power lines hang in a lazy arc. The front door had no path, and you blaze a trail through the grass, feeling the spiderwebs against your ankles..."
You drew the short straw...
The Hoard by Lay Low Magazine medium.com/lit-up/the-h...
#fiction in the Lit Up press #litpub & #readingcommunity
"...No grasp
of dreams
a ghost
can grab..."
Just Dead by Chad Parenteau medium.com/lit-up/just-... #poetry #micropoetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
sharing a #poem a day helps poets believe their words are read
"I had a dream
everything in our world was pink.
Even the men..."
A Pink World by No Blabs medium.com/lit-up/a-pin... #poetry #micropoetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"...Sweet white flowers above
Rain drops cling to petals, wet wings;
Mist in the garden hides you
As I whisper my absence of you..."
Lifting the Veil by John E Marks medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #music #haiga in The Mad River #litpub
#read and share a #poem today and make a poet almost smile
"...I’d put the car back in drive and was about to pull away from the curb that I saw a form move behind the curtain..."
Their Zoom Selves Were Peering Out From Between The Curtains by Leni Quinn medium.com/lit-up/their... #fiction in Lit Up #litpub and #readingcommunity
"I miss you a little extra on the days I achieve something.
Not only in the dark hours,
when the room feels smaller than my thoughts..."
I Miss You in My Light Too by Khushbu Gehlot medium.com/lit-up/i-mis...
#poetry of #loss and #love in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"they say
when you die
and come back
somehow
you’re no longer
afraid
of anything...
Fear of Dying by Ben Human medium.com/lit-up/fear-...
#poetry of #dying in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
sharing a #poem a day helps poets work, rest, and not starve so much in a garret :)
"...The soul sings. Mourns us to the other us. This race must be run, but cannot be won, but you will be beautiful forever..."
Pentimenti by Ken Kawaji medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry #loss in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"The relic tree of Odin, and Chopin’s Funeral March, fade from the inevitable gaiety of the lost cause, a bloody pause. Victory smells herself on his hands, his lips..."
The Secretary of War by Ken Kawaji medium.com/lit-up/the-s... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub & #poetrycommunity
share a #poem today
"My father came to visit while on my walk today,
He flew down swiftly on the wings of a blue jay,
He sang me a song, both sweet and strong..."
A Spirited Saunter by Michael Lahoue medium.com/lit-up/a-spi... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"My father came to visit while on my walk today,
He flew down swiftly on the wings of a blue jay,
He sang me a song, both sweet and strong..."
A Spirited Saunter by Michael Lahoue medium.com/lit-up/a-spi... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"A flash of remembrance on a throw away day
The crumbling of memory, time fades away..."
ALIEN NATION by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/alien... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"The skunk in the road is a holy thing
now: its glamorous body cracked
like a dragon’s dropped egg
unveils a rotten yolk..."
Skunked by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/the-mad-rive... #poetry in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity
#poetrylovers come #read and share a #poem today...
"...If you truly want it,
you can build it all
— your own empire of dirt..."
Built To Crumble by No Blabs medium.com/lit-up/built... #poetry in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
#poetrylovers come #read and share a #poem today...
"In living violently;
an unnamed apology;
epoxy poured over seizing flowers,
slippery stones not yet skipped in the river,
my whole incentive for life is raging..."
Lemons by Anna Rozwadowska medium.com/lit-up/lemon...
#read #poetry in the Lit Up press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"You have a memory, or a fragment of one. Strangely persistent, it tugs at you like a kite string..."
I, The Ghost of a Long-Gone Radio Shack, Am Haunting This Mattress Store by Leni Quinn medium.com/lit-up/i-the...
#fiction #flashfiction in the Lit Up Press #litpub & #readingcommunity
"Listen,
please, I know how this will sound, but
Shelly, please believe me..."
Drop in for an extra specially meaty episode of MITChell by @oldcoleminer.bsky.social medium.com/lit-up/mitch... #fiction #serialfiction #scifi #poetry in Lit Up #litpub & #readingcommunity (catch up links in story)
"Oh death, where is thy sting?..."
The Star She Lost: What Death Couldn’t Steal by Ifunanya Carol medium.com/lit-up/the-s... #poetry of unimaginable #griefandloss in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #readingcommunity
"I walk along this strand opposite Holy Island:
pebbles that fit softly into the palm of my hand..." PEBBLES from my SKULL by John E Marks medium.com/lit-up/pebbl... I'm feeling the #poetry vibe in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
"Third tier anesthesia,
in a locked up north,
our store of words fled,
Belief? Empty as a music box
for housing the dead..."
A psychiatric disorder #poetry by John E Marks medium.com/the-mad-rive... in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
why not #read and share a #poem today?
