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Just Breathe In

@picklemafia / picklemafia.tumblr.com

Hello poetry friends! I wanted to say I love everything everyone has contributed to the one-word poetry prompts, and I'm very happy I started doing it! In fact, I believe this is going to be a regular thing. On that note, I wanted to create a pinned post showcasing the poems created by the people who came up with the prompts.

Please feel free to go here and add another prompt to the list, or you can even add them here as a comment within this post!

All prompts will eventually be used within the One-word poetry prompts, it will just take some time.

This list will be added to with every prompt as time goes on!

If you're new to the idea, we choose one word to base an entire poem off of.

After you write your poem, you would hopefully tag me in it so I can reblog it and let others read your work!

Links to the poems below!

The way this goes is, the person who suggested the prompt is obviously on the left, the word suggested in the middle, and the poem they wrote for the prompt, so:

@ person. : #Prompt. : Poem

Me, this weird dude : #Ask : Ask : prompt

@ Anonymous suggestion : #Solemn : (if you're the one who came up with this prompt and wrote a poem for it, please let me know) : prompt

@wrentalks : #Heatwave : Summer Haze

@i-am-the-writer : #Serendipity :

@ghostingmyghosts : #Ambition :

@faemaril : #Ignite : Ignite

@alchemicverse : #Overcome : Become

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You were taken from this world far too early. One singular moment changed this world, and mine, and it is a darker place for it.

Your bright, beautiful eyes, lost in them as I were, closed one last time, and I am truly lost for it. Your bright, inviting smile, it lifted me from deep crevices steeped in shadow, and it shines no more. So much light gone from this world, and it is a darker place for it.

What I wouldn't give to leave this dark world behind, to join you wherever you roam. What I wouldn't give to start such a journey today. I fear my path will be too long for that though. Many miles and many moons lie between us, I fear. I will see you again, but it will not be soon. I will see you again.

It's been many years since I've held your gaze. That changed tonight. Where there was once life reflected back at me, now they were filled with something that made me crave indifference, for that would have been easier to behold. They pierced me deeply, straight on through, and left a hole. I am desperate to fill it, but anything I could fill it with would be temporary, like the life within your eyes.

Sold For a Lie

Sold my soul to buy a friend

Sold a friend to buy some soul

Sold it all for a kingdom in the sand, never a firm foundation

I told myself it would settle

Sold a kingdom to buy a life

Sold a life to buy a dream

Sold a dream to buy just a bit of truth

I told myself it was just a bit of truth

And now I'm a liar

Sold it all for a lie

- J.Lamana

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You and I

You and I

Tethered to the rock, split at the seams

Hands firmly clasped together, a farewell held gently in an embrace

Quite the team, and our destruction was surely a team effort

Surely mutual, surely destructive

You and I

A force, to be sure

Forced to the sidelines

Forced to the brink

Another team effort, to be sure

You and I

Beautiful and terrible

Peaceful and terrifying

Cathartic and destructive

Tame and wild, all and nothing, forever to be sure

You and I

Will never be us

- J.Lamana

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Recently drove over 2200 miles over the course of around 35 hours to get back "home". After so long away, I thought it might actually be cathartic. What do you do when no where feels like home anymore? Where do you go?

Every connection I've ever made is severed by time. Abject indifference wears a mask that looks like love, and it stares deep into my soul as the mask is removed. Another day, another severance, another mask removed.

The final day cannot come quick enough. The unceasing may finally cease, and I may finally know peace.

Tethered

Hold me now, tightly in your arms, tethered, for I am floating away

The crushing weight upon my shoulders, and yet the wind still threatens to carry me away

Tether me to you, so I do not lose my footing, so I do not lose my way

Tether me to you, so that I may find my way back to your arms

- J.Lamana

© 2025 picklemafia/J.Lamana | Reposting on this platform is permitted with proper credit. Reposting on other platforms is not allowed. No edits. All rights reserved.

I will never again be the man that I was. That part of me died with your memory.

I believe I failed you in this life. Your unceasing and immutable absence is testament to this. My only solace remains in the thought that I may see you again at the close of my days.

If Only

Lift me up, if only to cast me down

Lay me down gently, if only to raise the walls around me down to rubble

Touch my heart, if only to pulverize it within your callous hands

Lift me up, if only to hold me to the light in an effort to see what I would hide from this world

Speak to me, if only to throw your daggers into me

Hold me in your arms, if only to let me go once more

- J.Lamana

© 2025 picklemafia/J.Lamana | Reposting on this platform is permitted with proper credit. Reposting on other platforms is not allowed. No edits. All rights reserved.

Anonymous asked:

October feels like it's holding its breath tonight. There's a strange kind of calm in the air, like everything is waiting for something. It's one of thoae nights that hum quietly. I hope you're hearing it too.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN
🎃 🫶 🎃

There is certainly something electric in the air. Happy halloween!

No matter how far away you may be, you're never far from my mind. I miss you.

Hey! I'm just one of your followers who adores your writing. Just wanted to check in on you, you haven't posted in a while. I do hope everything's fine on your side. Happy Halloween 🎃

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Hello! Thank you so much! That means the absolute world to me. It's been rough, writing hasn't seemed like a source of catharsis in a little while, but I'm mostly okay! Thank you so much for reaching out! Happy Halloween!

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