Summons by Shain Parwiz
The joker is still grinning.

One injured hand writing everything they’ll read in court.

📅 March 11 · 6:30 PM SGT / 6:30 AM EST

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Whiplash FIFA gave him a prize for peace the other day,A shiny golden cup,While down the street the vans rolled byTo round the people up. “For bringing nations close,” they said,And shook his ha…

When FIFA gave him a peace prize and then starts warning people to stay away from the country.

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#DocumentaryPoetry #PoliticalPoetry #SatiricalPoetry #PoetryOfWitness

DEMON PULPIT — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

A sermon for the ones who were loved until they needed love back.

Live Jan 5 · 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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The Fourth Wall — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

One. Two. Three. Four.

Live Dec 29 · 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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Complicit — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

When the strings are cut.

Live Dec 28 · 6:00 AM EST / 6:00 PM SGT

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Real — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

The shadows that stay when morning comes.

Dec 3rd · 12:30 AM EST / 12:30 PM SGT

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#GuillotineGospel #Real #ShainParwizWrites #RawProse #PoetryOfWitness #ResistanceWriting #DarkProse

Once More — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

Pretty lies amounting to nothing.

Live November 21st 616 PM EST/ 616 AM SGT

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Magnetic Skin — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

They concoct PTSD. I document mine.

Live Nov 17 · 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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Love — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

Some things need no dressing up.

Live Nov 14 · 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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Simon Armitage
“There’s something about poetry
which is oppositional
Poetry is a form of dissent
… there’s something a little bit
obstinate about it
It’s the literary equivalent of
the awkward squad”

#LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday
#WeWillRememberThem #PoetryofWitness

Stacking Secrets — Guillotine Gospel

You can’t expose the trick if you’re still clapping.

Live Nov 10 · 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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On the Factory Floor
g.a.costa, 2025

A poem on how the machinery of capitalism devours its own workers to keep feeding the world.

#poetry #poem #capitalism #poetryofwitness #politicalpoetry

Stubborn — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

Everyone loves a comeback story. I don’t fall in that category.

Live Nov 3 · 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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Metrics — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

Apologies trend. Accountability doesn’t.

Live October 27 · 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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Snake — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

You can’t cleanse what you refuse to name.

Live 20th Oct · 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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#GuillotineGospel #Snake #ShainParwizWrites #DarkPoetry #ResistanceWriting #PoetryOfWitness #TruthTellers

Truth and Amends — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

If I’m going to call it out, I have to start with myself.

Live 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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#GuillotineGospel #TruthAndAmends #ShainParwizWrites #DarkPoetry #PoetryOfWitness #ResistanceWriting #ReckoningWriting

Lessons Learned — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

The lessons hurt more than the addiction.

Live 13 Oct · 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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Lines — Guillotine Gospel
by Shain Parwiz

Every time we say never again, it happens again.

Live 6:30 AM EST / 6:30 PM SGT

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The Great Red Dragon and the Woman clothed with the sun For a world with no more aggression

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Are We Still The People? My fellow Americans… The ones who would remind us of the Boston Massacre,and Washington’s winter soldiers,Who celebrate independence,Bucking despots ever bolder. Then light the fuse and swim …

History calls us to remember Boston, abolition, Normandy and asks if we’re still those people, or if we’ve bowed to an orange man-god. Adam G. House’s new poem is live.
#AmericanPoetry #Resist
#ProtestPoetry #WethePeople #PoetryOfWitness #Trump

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We Are the Chorus: Poetry of Witness | Substack A collaborative poetry project. Click to read We Are the Chorus: Poetry of Witness, a Substack publication. Launched 19 days ago.

It's a gift to be included in this very powerful #poetic tide created by @coastalpoet.bsky.social‬ who knows the time has come. Through #PoetryofWitness words can heal, change, declare, resist. Simply brilliant! #PoetsofBlueSky #Subscribe poetryofwitness.substack.com bit.ly/3Hof0Xh

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A collective launch skywards for Evie @coastalpoet.bsky.social who is not only a fine writer and most generous community member but has just launched the #PoetryOfWitness initiative 'We are the Chorus' open.substack.com/pub/poetryof... 👏❤️🙏

‘Occupy Whiteness’ by @jzthepoet.bsky.social published by @deepvellum.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #hybridlit #bilingualpoetry #bilingualliterature #erasurepoetry #decolonialpoetry #immigrantpoetry #politicalpoetry #nativepoetry #poetryofwitness #poetryasactivism #literatureasactivism

Some days it’s just too much to hold

#gazagenocide #poetryofwitness #poetry #longformpoetry

We Kept It Instead The floor was too clean.

Austerity isn’t abstract.
It’s a closed door.
A coat not worn.
A room no longer lit.
This poem walks through a museum of memory we couldn’t afford to forget.

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Soft ask: share if it moves you.
#PoetryOfWitness #MemoryAsResistance

From charcoal makers to HIV-positive mothers, the women in RADIANT WOUND do more than survive—
They shape fire from ruin.

#RadiantWound #IvorianVoices #FeministPoetry

Out now.

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#RadiantWound #PoetryOfWitness

'Still City' by Oksana Maksymchuk, published by @upittpress.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrycommunity #ukranianpoetry #warpoetry #ukranianwarpoetry #poetryasactivism #poetryofwitness

As we contemplate the weather over the next couple of days...
Just finished reading Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith, poetry witnessing hurricane Katrina...

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