Peculiar Julia
@peculiarjulia.bsky.social
#Writer, #Editor, #Poet, #Dog Servant, #Cake Eater. #Poetry #MagicalRealism #BizarroFiction #CNF and most #Words written well. Lean #Buddhist when #meditating Find me #writing, #editing and calling for #submissions on Medium https://linktr.ee/peculiarjulia
"...I was surprised to see some of them there. Knowing and remembering them as I did..." The Class of Ninety-Three by Martyn Sullivan medium.com/lit-up/the-c... #flashfiction #fiction in the Lit Up press #litpub and #readingcommunity
The Class of Ninety-Three
She made a dreadful noise, like fox cubs being shovelled out from a den
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New to The Mad River, the very talented Martina Matijević, who comes from adopted homeland of #croatia #poet #poetry
Peculiar Julia@peculiarjulia.bsky.social · 7d ago"Red parasols speck the water flesh. Poppy fields suddenly grow. I lean in to dive, but the smell of my mother’s womb pulls me back..." My Red, My Mother by Martina Matijević medium.com/the-mad-rive... #read #poetry in The Mad River #litpub & #poetrycommunity
"...love unseen like air yet keenly felt..." Relearning the vase by Sowshan medium.com/lit-up/relea... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub
Relearning the vase
Catalogue poem
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"Dust motes dance on a sunbeam as I scribble down a memory, pot it like a plant..." Otro día by John E Marks https://medium.com/lit-up/otro-d%C3%ADa-f74a3403c232 just what I needed today #poetry with a #music chaser in the Lit Up press #litpub & #poetrycommunity
Medium
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"...she studied stars sutured space between breaths incising antimatter..." Operations- In Standing Dead Wood by Mike Ketch🖌 https://medium.com/the-mad-river/operations-in-standing-dead-wood-32d6728cbbf4 #poetry in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Operations- In Standing Dead Wood
in spirits we touch the earth as lightning fondles plasma
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“...Sometimes abundance is just dissonance in a silky trench coat...” Still Waters by Nina https://medium.com/lit-up/still-waters-06a49928f7af #fiction #TheGreyZone in the Lit Up press #litpub & #readingcommunity
Still Waters
“Sometimes abundance is just dissonance in a silky trench coat.”
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"...In Raya’s head, Death was nothing more than a wise, gloomy old man that awaited human souls at the gate of the afterlife..." If Death Was Kind Enough to Lend Me a Blanket by Fatmaha Lindawati medium.com/lit-up/if-de... #fiction in Lit Up #litpub & #poetrycommunity
If Death Was Kind Enough to Lend Me a Blanket
I wonder what it would feel like …
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"Did you love too much And did you love alone Stretched to the limit Trying to hold it on your own..." It’s Okay If You Love Too Hard and Hold On Too Long by Crystal Jackson medium.com/lit-up/its-o... #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
It’s Okay If You Love Too Hard and Hold On Too Long
Your feelings matter, love
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"...Pay attention — my heart is setting the beat..." It’s Time for Dreams by No Blabs https://medium.com/lit-up/its-time-for-dreams-9a1da32ca915 #poetry #micropoetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
It’s Time for Dreams
A Small Invocation for the Impossible
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"Red parasols speck the water flesh. Poppy fields suddenly grow. I lean in to dive, but the smell of my mother’s womb pulls me back..." My Red, My Mother by Martina Matijević medium.com/the-mad-rive... #read #poetry in The Mad River #litpub & #poetrycommunity
My Red, My Mother
Free verse
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"...Two weeks since Two lies came to a head, Since yeses and nos blurred And meant the same thing, As far as you said..." DARVO by Ioana Andrei medium.com/loose-words/... #poetry #DARVO #redflags
DARVO
A self-questioning poem
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"...Mad River I love you cold press my morning mist across sunlight of paper and pixie wings..." Crystallization Theory of Poetry Formation by Mike Ketch🖌 https://medium.com/the-mad-river/crystallization-theory-of-poetry-formation-ee8bde51d1c7 #poetry in The Mad River #litpub & #poetrycommunity
Crystallization Theory of Poetry Formation
hands like green garter snakes I approach the keyboard reproductively writhing in river joy
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"in fullness time birthed herself in rings of gold and worlds crushed among the ruins a pale form robed only in ash..." In Fullness Time Birthed Herself by Mike Ketch🖌 https://medium.com/lit-up/in-fullness-time-birthed-herself-5390789ab1e0 Read #poetry in Lit Up #litpub & #poetrycommunity
In Fullness Time Birthed Herself
free verse | a pale form robed only in ash
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"...Ancient Bloom Opening- It stared back — with the same eye that the new moon has, these last long nights..." Lunocular a #poem by Fleur Sauvage https://medium.com/lit-up/lunocular-6e207fa26a43 #poetry #listening #writing in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Lunocular
An encounter
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"I have carried more dying across that low table than most of the doctors will in a career, and I have not once spilled a drop of it on myself..." First Person by K.V Thorne medium.com/lit-up/first... #mustread great #fiction #literaryfiction in the Lit Up press #litpub & #readingcommunity
First Person
“You render everything; you add nothing; you take nothing away.”
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"Fingertips, hard and bleeding, No feeling; No emotion. With strings snapped or untuned, Wrong chords; Wrong choice..." The Last Bar by Fae https://medium.com/lit-up/the-last-bar-06b57711f206 #poetry in Lit Up #litpub and #poetrycommunity
The Last Bar
Free Verse
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My Body is Not Your Temple by Crystal Jackson "To genuflect in praise of imagined genius To sing hymns only where none may hear To profess beliefs denied loudly in daylight To be faithful only ..." https://medium.com/lit-up/my-body-is-not-your-temple-94ae230e387e #poetry in Lit Up #litpub
My Body is Not Your Temple
To find sanctuary in the self
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"A gift from the multitude of stars Blessed with both heart and soul: You shall not grow old as I grow old..." Written at a time of great cruelty and much hypocrisy by John E Marks https://medium.com/lit-up/written-at-a-time-of-great-cruelty-and-much-hypocrisy-e22b2bc85518 #poetry in Lit Up #litpub
Written at a time of great cruelty and much hypocrisy
“Kill not the Moth nor Butterfly/ For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.” Auguries of Innocence, William Blake
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So that's a legit story, right? I'm still surprised that the emerging new media platforms aren't going after this rather BIG story by contacting reporters and editors and publishers about this - what? - oversight? What are you guys waiting for?
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 2w agoNews outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW
"... I will ask my priest on Sunday if I blasphemed by creating a tiny god. It made it on accident..." accidental god and other #poems 5 Poems by Ruslan Garrey https://medium.com/the-mad-river/5-poems-9eacd95e61da #poetry in The Mad River #litpub and #poetrycommunity
5 Poems
Sleep Starts in the Hands
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Next time someone tells you Hitler was a socialist - ask them if they think Kim Jong Un is the leader of a democratic people's republic.
65yearcitizen@usa24freedom.bsky.social · 2w agoTake 20 seconds , read the whole thing.
the earth is loud today it’s voice is a thunder of bees but its breath is smoke upon the water #poetry
"Frank had spent years proving to himself that he wasn’t a pianist..." The Man in the Suit and Tie by Nina https://medium.com/lit-up/the-man-in-the-suit-and-tie-2763bb051750 another #tale from The Grey Zone collection #fiction #literaryfiction in @thelituppress #litpub and #readingcommunity
The Man in the Suit and Tie
Frank had spent years proving to himself that he wasn’t a pianist.
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"Fresh grief has a smell as insistent as peroxide…" Hard to Swallow by Martyn Sullivan https://medium.com/lit-up/hard-to-swallow-be0d2fc756df #fiction #literaryfiction in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #readingcommunity #horror #food and #cats what more could you ask for?
Hard to Swallow
every day slowly remaking him, shaping him from wet clay into something with the sheen of sardines
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morning walk ten beautiful things before breakfast #haiku
"...Sacred exhaustion I am the sacrificial lamb Clinging to a rosary of tasks left still To rescue me, the damned..." Holy Over Functioning by Crystal Jackson https://medium.com/lit-up/holy-over-functioning-c22f18cb8e67 #poetry in the Lit Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
Holy Over Functioning
A prayer for those on the edge of breaking down
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"...She wove her ballad to mature and bloom, And grow pink and wild in its sudden youth...." The Bard by Hargun Kaur https://medium.com/lit-up/the-bard-78e3a7822d5e #poetry #remembrance #griefandloss the LIt Up Press #litpub and #poetrycommunity
The Bard
An Elegy
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