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Victoria Melekian

@victoriamelekian.bsky.social

Writer, quilter, person who practices piano. My poetry collection "The Accidental Courage of Our Lives" is available from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. https://victoriamelekian.com/

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Over the moon excited and very grateful. Thank you!!!

bathflashaward.bsky.social@bathflashaward.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congratulations to the 3 Winners of our 2026 novella in flash award! 1st prize Victoria Melekian, runners up @bsherm36.bsky.social & @joannacampbell.bsky.social & highly commended @fionajanemack.bsky.social @fionamckay.bsky.social & Bill Merklee www.bathflashfictionaward.com/category/win...

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

@doesithavepockets.bsky.social Thank you for the interview!!

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

@doesithavepockets.bsky.social Thank you for the interview!!

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New interview live! We chat with the effervescent @victoriamelekian.bsky.social about her new collection, happiness, dogs, and pockets (natch). | www.doesithavepockets.com/features/v-m... #interviews #poetry #dihpalumni

A Conversation with Victoria Melekian — Does It Have Pockets

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Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What a lovely thing to post. Thank you, Philippa.

Philippa Bowe@philippabowe.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today's #LiftToTheSky goes to @victoriamelekian.bsky.social, as modest as she is talented. Her reading of some of the tender, beautiful poems from her book The Accidental Courage of Our Lives is hugely enjoyable. 💫 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlck...

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thank you for publishing my poems:)

SHINE Poetry@shinepoetry.bsky.social · 11mo ago

SPOTLIGHT ON...Victoria Melekian: samanthaterrell.weebly.com/shine-poetry... #shinepoetry #poetrylovers #internationalcommunity

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thank you for this delight. I'm honored.

Does It Have Pockets@doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Congrats to our amazing Best of the Net '26 candidates. We send your ballots off with all our digits crossed! #pocketyasheck

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · last yr.

Good morning, @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Here's my #transitions poem for #PoemsAbout

Poem, Creating a Path to Harmony

Should have been simple—
buy decomposed granite the color of dirt

and some dark rocks, but he came home
with light-hued pebbles and stones

that the girl at the store told him
would be pretty when wet,

"Which means," I said, "they'll be beautiful
twenty-one days a year," to which he replied,

"Next time get them yourself."
I was annoyed and so was he, but we raked

and tamped dirt, spread the rocks, all
one thousand pounds, and shaped

an inviting path toward the front door.
And when it rains, the rocks are very pretty.

Sometimes my husband sprays them
with a hose. And then they are beautiful.

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · last yr.

My #LifttotheSky goes to @mavismoog.bsky.social who leaves me lovely encouraging comments on my posts. Check out her most recent poems—full of humanity, clever and funny. Thank you, @alanparry83.bsky.social and @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for this community.

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · last yr.

Good morning, @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #PoemsAbout #Spectacle My poem was published in "Autumn Sky Poetry Daily" some years ago. It's what I think of when I hear the word spectacle.

Poem Hallelujah This Sky
Working downtown today, clouds
in every window of the high rise
across the way: big white ones
vast enough to house God

and sweet baby Jesus, all of heaven's
angels and saints. I'm telling you,
it's a miracle sky, sky in a Bible,
sky so gorgeous it can fix anything

that ails you, and it's reflected
in every single window
on all twenty-four floors of the building
across from me, a colossal glass cloud

there to behold. The attorneys drone:
question, answer question, answer.
I take down ever do you recall, isn't it true,
pursuant to, but I want to stop

the deposition and applaud this sky.
Hallelujah this sky. Devour this sky.
Stuff myself with pure white fluffiness,
slip clouds into their transcript.

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · last yr.

Good morning, @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #PoemsAbout #defeat

Poem Winter Solstice
Loneliness says yes
when the answer's no.
Loneliness spends the night
just to wake up warm.
Morning smells like coffee
and wrinkled sheets.
A pillow feather floats
to the floor, under the bed
with the dust that clings
to missing things.
I wipe steam
from the window
with my sleeve.
Outside is wet and gray,
the color of a toolbox
in the back of a pickup truck.
A bird settles on the lawn.
Another flies away.

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · last yr.

Good morning, @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social, this is my poem for the #poemsabout, #glory prompt.

Poem, The Glory of Resilience

I believe in dandelions,
hardy plants surviving

in cracks between cement
and asphalt, raggedy green

leaves we drive over daily,
never noticing their quiet

beauty, our gutters bright
with tiny yellow blooms.

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · last yr.

My #LifttotheSky goes to @doesithavepockets.bsky.social, a beautiful journal. Cami and Anne are kind and personable, just lovely to work with. Thank you.

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello, this is my first submission, a reminder to never forget there is beauty everywhere. #PoemsAbout #NeverForget @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Poem: Some Days are a Long Gray Slog

Hope can be difficult
to hold onto—floods and fires,
political gloom, hunger
on every street corner,
an old man’s grocery
bag stolen from his arms.
This world can crush you.
But.
There are pansies.
There are pinecones.
There is the scent of sage after rain.
Look up.
There are birds sitting
on the tip tops of trees.

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · last yr.

A beautiful photo for my poem. Thank you❤️

Does It Have Pockets@doesithavepockets.bsky.social · last yr.

We're beyond grateful for these poems from @victoriamelekian.bsky.social to cap our 2nd Anniversary Issue, gifting us hope, humor, solace, grief, and everything in between | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/victo... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social #poetry #dihpturns2 #riphippobanjonashhumphries

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · last yr.

This❤️

HuffPost@huffpost.com · last yr.

“I immediately wondered if this was real.”

Victoria Melekian @victoriamelekian.bsky.social · last yr.

Some news!