Some days don’t announce themselves.
They just quietly keep things standing.

The Department of Lost Days

Read now at wrightspoetry.com

#TheThursdayLantern #Poetry #ModernPoetry #SpeculativePoetry #Midweek #OrdinaryDays #QuietMoments

https://wrightspoetry.com/2026/01/08/the-thursday-lantern-the-department-of-lost-days/

🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — The Department of Lost Days - Wrights Poetry

A light, speculative poem about the unnoticed midweek days that quietly hold everything together.

Wrights Poetry

Another great poem that has returned to my mind often since stumbling it for the first time. From the collection "The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe" by Laura Gilpin.

I actually did a full audiobook of this collection. If you want to listen, the link to that is at
https://youtu.be/60nwURlPggA?si=ZgFLuTv-oW6jaxET

#poetry #poem #ModernPoetry

January arrives pretending something was wiped clean—but the truth is quieter, heavier, and more honest than that.

Read now at wrightspoetry.com

#TheThursdayLantern #NewYearsDay #Poetry #ModernPoetry #Reflection #StillHere #Continuation

https://wrightspoetry.com/2026/01/01/the-thursday-lantern-the-day-after-the-promise/

🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — The Day After the Promise - Wrights Poetry

A reflective New Year’s Day poem about continuation, honesty, and waking up without the illusion of a clean slate.

Wrights Poetry

Christmas has always felt like an ache to me.
Not joy. Not sorrow. Something in between.
A quiet melancholy that settles once the noise fades.

Read the full piece at wrightspoetry.com

#TheThursdayLantern #AfterChristmas #Poetry #ModernPoetry #Reflection #Melancholy #TimePassing

https://wrightspoetry.com/2025/12/25/%f0%9f%95%af%ef%b8%8f-the-thursday-lantern-after-the-lights-go-out/

🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — After the Lights Go Out - Wrights Poetry

A reflective poem about the quiet ache after Christmas, where tradition, nostalgia, and time settle once the noise fades.

Wrights Poetry

It is with enormous honor that I present my newest podcast titled “What Makes a Man Live Only for Poetry?” featuring the wonderful linguist and scholar David Crystal! We discuss in this podcast the enormous amount of poetry and even more poetic life of one John Bradburne.

Out today at
https://neweveningisle.substack.com/p/what-makes-a-man-live-only-for-poetry

https://youtu.be/sOQ9cdFg5Q8?si=6j98xMdgB6XlNEIK

#poetry #modernpoetry

Loving You, Losing Me

Loving You, Losing Me is a raw and haunting poem that explores the pain of giving everything to a love that only drains in return. With vivid imagery of emptiness, silence, and despair, it captures the suffocating weight of heartbreak while echoing the timeless tragedy of love and loss.

Poetic Bipolar Mind

— SEE YOU SOON ---
“I want to hold your hand.
Talk to you,

Walk with and be with you.



Hug You

Laugh with you too.


Share my dreams with you,

Hold you in my arms
Because I Love You
and I think the world of you!

You are a gift

Who makes me smile 

And makes my soul laugh

Just by being yourself.


I'll see you soon
and we'll be together again.
Thank you. I Love you.”

From (written journal, transcribed online on fedi)
See You Soon: a poem by Crissy Tish Addams

#CreativeWriting #LovePoems #ModernPoetry #RomanticLove #SoulmateEnergy

Spotlight on Words to Think. Or to Sing. by Intensia | Modern Poetry & Lyric Reflections

🎤 Words to Think. Or to Sing. by Intensia is a poetic journey into the soul of music—before the melody begins. ✨ Discover this reflective, artful spotlight + excerpt, and enter to win a $20 Amazon gift card! #ModernPoetry #BookSpotlight #IndieAuthor

https://ginaraemitchell.com/words-to-think/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Spotlight: Words To Think. Or To Sing. By Intensia 🎶

Discover Words to Think. Or to Sing. by Intensia—modern poetry meets music in this lyrical spotlight + excerpt & giveaway. 🎤✨

Gina Rae Mitchell