Poet / spoken word artist / award-winning author / Ukrainian / Bashkir Tatar / Nagaybak / immigrant / survivor / activist / mama bear / cat fanatic
Vironika Wilde
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This poem from my poetry book Love & Gaslight has #clench in it, so I want to share it for today's #vss365 prompt. I'm so glad I left him 🥹
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A poem from one book lover friend to another who's finalizing a divorce 🥹
I had such a great time writing custom poems at Wortley Pride today!
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I used to come and go
like a #feral cat
looking for a feeding,
ears low, teeth bared.
Only now that
I have something more
do I see: that was not
love.
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Some people hear your No
as something exotic, alluring,
a melody of #forbidden treasure.
It is your unfortunate responsibility
to speak up, repeat, tighten your tone
until you are heard.
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When #dusk falls too quickly,
and the night lasts too long,
I'll face the dawn boldly.
With the sun, I rise strong.
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Like weeding a garden,
we must free our heads
from the #lingering voices
of those who never
wanted to see us
grow.
#poetry #vss365 #linger
Sometimes, it's so hard to tell the difference between fear and intuition. I know. I know. Time will tell. But living through that time feels like torture. All that’s left is to breathe, wait, and consciously #tether to reality.
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Neglecting to communicate your disinterest because you want to keep someone's half-broken heart as a safety net is not harmless. It's cruel the same way cheating is cruel. If you're not into a person, let them go. There's no #victory in mind games.
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Writing typewriter poems for strangers is, in some ways, more vulnerable than writing my own poems. It's not only the time pressure. It's the sun outside or LED lights inside. It's the wind or the noise. Most of all, it's the absence of a backspace button.
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#Mother Earth has postpartum depression. It's all hands on deck now.
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