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taken in Cross & Crows Books by @carriehillcreative

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Instagram isn't letting me caption things again. I have to go back into the last to write this, haha. Anyway, enjoy this new poem. I'll post the full text in comments. by @carriehillcreative

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This might be the most organized my poetry shelf has ever been. Yes, I know I need another bookshelf. But I mean, let's be real: It's me. I ALWAYS need another bookshelf. Lol. by @carriehillcreative

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taken in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo by @carriehillcreative

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New work from a writing session today with @gatherpoets and what a treat it was! Our exercise today was to explore our poetic taste. Apparently I want gut punches at every turn. Lol.

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BURY ME ALIVE WITH POETRY

Give me poetry I can chew on.

Lines carved discriminately from sinew

and bone. I desire words that sit

on my tongue and sizzle. Ideas, like seeds,

to plant in the soil of my brain

that one day may bear fruit and form

fleshy, boundless worlds of pure creation.

Give me poetry that I can handle.

I crave substance. Less abstraction.

More profundity. Send every syllable

into my marrow. Let it circulate in my

bloodstream alongside minerals

and mitochondria, delving

into depths of consciousness

yet unseen. Or, perhaps,

the opposite, for what magic may

trickle from these practicing hands?

Give me poetry that haunts me.

Delight me with daunting themes

and envelop me in the torment

of relation. Find me with words

that spill beams of light into my spirit’s

darkest corners. I want words that wake

me from my slumber because I’m

reciting verses out loud.

I defy you, poet, to be so brazen,

so bold: Bury me alive with poetry.

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#NewPoem #WIP #PracticeMakesProgress #CarrieHillCreative #PoetsPoeting by @carriehillcreative

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@gatherpoets is back in session and it's like waking up and taking a deep breath for the first time in years, when in reality it's only been 6 months. The world is a mind fuck, I tell you!

Here is a new poem I'm currently working on. I'm giving myself minimum 24hr before I go back to it for review & revision.

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WHAT DOES LIFE MEAN TO A DYING WORLD

when the five stages of grief collide

in a great gnashing of teeth

and nails, torn sinew, the visceral crack

of breaking bones

When war has little significance

when one must beg for crumbs

we can barely chew on

violence is more than a throwing of fists

a collection of callousness thrust upward

caught by the wind, collecting any and all

in its upward draft

this is just the pretense. a distraction,

if you will: another trend. another

viral video turning our attention

away from suffocating oceans

and scorched earth towards

supply chains, manufactured

shortages and political fuckery

our legacy, laid out in liminal spaces

laid to waste with every lack of choice

every voice cut short, more concerned

with maintaining profit margins

than leaving ourselves with air

to breathe; with space and place to look

forward and toward

alas, we remain bereft, locked

in our open air prisons, condemned

to death by production

capitalism the warden

of our destruction
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#NewPoem #DraftPoem #WIP #CarrieHillCreative #GatherPoets by @carriehillcreative

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taken in Cross & Crows Books by @carriehillcreative

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And just like that, my first Sealey Challenge is over!

I read 15 books which is roughly half of what I'd hoped, but life got in the way, as ever!

Here are my titles, with authors tagged as able. Please shoot me a line if I made a mistake on any of these!

DEARLY - @therealmargaretatwood
Lima - @nascent.ers
Not One Of These Poems Is About You - @robotpilot
PITIFUL - @_birdrights
Once - Alice Walker
the way forward - @yung_pueblo
Take Me With You - @andreagibson
Each One a Furnace - @tolu1n1
The Seated Woman - @clemencedumascote
Nucleus - Svetlana Ischenko
Good Luck in the Real World - @adriennenovy
Why I Was Late - @saw.poet
Re-Origin of Species - @alessandra.nacc
Tender Delirium - Tania De Rozario
Given - @wendellquotes

#PoetsRead #SealeyChallenge #AugustPoetryReads #ShopLocal #SupportTheArts by @carriehillcreative

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Enough is enough.

Harry Dresden > Harry Potter.

#StopPlatformingBigots #WeKeepUsSafe #EthicalResponsibility #FHP #FJKR by @carriehillcreative

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