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Özge Lena

6 months

WONDERFUL NEWS! My #ecopoem "Watchers" is nominated for the @PushcartPrize 🎉 #ecopoetry #poetrycommunity Thank you @TheSelkieUK 🤍

The Selkie

@TheSelkieUK

6 months

🎉 Get ready for the big reveal! 📖 We're bursting with excitement to share our nominations for the Pushcart Prize. 🏆 Congratulations to our talented nominees! @shortestwitch @lenaozge @dusiqueira #PushcartPrize #Nominees #LitMag #OnlineLitMag #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

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"a girl becomes a woman and a woman, earth" A stunning poem by İlya Kaminsky ✨ @ilya_poet #poetry #poetrycommunity

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"Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive." Euripides, Medea #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre Art by Stephen Mackey

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Deaf Republic by @ilya_poet is terrific! 🖤 Most poems have been curdling in my mind since I read them.

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Savaşa, acılara rağmen hoşgeldin Mart. Bugün bahçemize erguvan ekeceğiz, İstanbul'un güzelim ağacı. 💜

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"when I have been suffering at times I could / step away from it by embracing it, a blues thing, / a John Donne thing, divest by wrestling, then sing." @dlseuss 🖤

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Per aspera ad astra! ✨ (Zorlukları aşarak, yıldızlara doğru.)

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It was a fabulous poetry reading yesterday by Diane and Margo, thank you! 🖤 And I keep saying "But the nightingale, I said." today! :-))

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I will be reading some new poems with @berdeshevsky next Sunday, Jan. 22, 12 pm PST, 3 pm EST, 9 pm Paris. Launching her new hybrid collection KNEEL SAID THE NIGHT. Register at:

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"Over the shadowy hills and windy peaks she draws her golden bow… and sends out grievous shafts." Artemis, Homeric Hymn 27 #bookwormsat

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"Bir kadın olarak, ülkem yok. Bir kadın olarak, bir ülkem olsun istemiyorum. Bir kadın olarak, bütün dünya benim ülkem." Virginia Woolf #8Mart #S ınırlaraHayır

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"It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things." Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper #BookWormSat #GothicSpring #ofdarkandmacabre

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"I know not how it was— but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit." Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher Art by Damien Worm #BookWormSat #gothicspring #ofdarkandmacabre

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Turkish & English :))

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"You are at the beginning of something, you said, and I'm at the end of something" The Door by Jean Valentine

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Spirite, George Roux, 1885

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"Aidiyet beraberinde mahkûmiyet getirir. Herhangi bir şeye; bir ülkeye, bir fikre, bir dine, bir aileye, en kötüsü de bir insana ait olmak hapiste olmakla eşdeğerdir.”

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The Morning Haze, Martin Sprusansky

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Andrea Salvatori 🤍

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"Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance at the moment when it attempts to die." Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero Art by Elin Manon #ofdarkandmacabre

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"Boşluğun ortasında taştan bir ev. Issızlıkta, tek başına. Evde bir tablo. Pencerelerin arasında. Tabloda yaşlı bir kadın. Öylece ona bakmakta. Yüzlerce kez, içinde kar taneleri olan bir kaleydoskobun içinde dönüp duran bir ruh..." Otopsi'den.

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Bugün aldığım bir habere göre Otopsi 2. baskıya girmiş, hem de 1.5 ay gibi kısa bir sürede. Okuyan, destekleyen herkese teşekkür ederim. 💛

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"Poetry casts a spell on us..." by @ilya_poet 🖤

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“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” Virginia Woolf #istanbuls özleşmesiyaşatır #The İstanbulConvention #WomenSupportingWomen

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The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee... Emily Dickinson #WorldBeeDay #BookWormSat #gothicspring Art by Brian Serway

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"Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair." Angela Carter Art by Roberto Santo, Wing of Desire #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre

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Hello October.

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"İçinden bedenine teşekkür etti. Zaten ona göre vücut, ruhun taşıyıcısıydı sadece, ne yaparsa yapsın ruhu öldüremezdi. Fakat ruh parçalara ayrılıp çoğalarak, başka benliklerde ve farklı şekillerde bedeni ölmekten beter edebilirdi." Otopsi

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Bashō

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Green was the forest drenched with shadows the roads were serpentine The moon darkened at dawn there was a breeze to witness the hour - Etel Adnan #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre Art by John Atkinson Grimshaw

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"Sinister flowers that seem to bear the incense of some unknown religion." Baudelaire "From my rotting body flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity." Munch "I must have flowers, always, and always." Monet #gothicspring #ofdarkandmacabre

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5 years

"Sanıyorum kanıtladığım bir şey var, hiçbir zaman 'memnun etmek' için yazmayacağım, birilerini kazanmak için; ben tamamen ve sonsuza dek kendi kendimin efendisiyim." Tanrıça Woolf

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"You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life." — Jane Hirshfield #summer2023 #ofdarkandmacabre Art by Annie Stegg

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"The Greeks thought of language as a veil which protects us from the brightness of things, I think poetry is a tear in that veil.” Alice Oswald

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-White Rabbit: Many people have come and gone from Wonderland, but only the most special ones discover what it's truly about. -Alice: Finding love? -White Rabbit: Finding yourself. #BookWormSat #WritingCommunity #ofdarkandmacabre #poetrycommunity Art: Identity by Eleanor Wood

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4 years

Gündem dışı: Otopsi sessiz sedasız 3. baskıyı yapmış. Bugün karşılaştım kendisiyle. Teşekkür ederim sevgili okur.

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"So through the darkness and the cold we flew." William Wordsworth #BookwormSat #OfDarkAndMacabre #bookchatweekly 🎨 Julia Soboleva

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"If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be." Maya Angleou

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Ah, snowflakes on a crow's wing! 📸 Shawn Bergman

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Hello September.

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"The wolves had tended her because they knew she was an imperfect wolf; we secluded her in animal privacy out of fear of her imperfection because it showed us what we might have been." Angela Carter, Wolf-Alice #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly 🎨Stephen Mackey

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@Joseph_Fasano_ "I wake up & it breaks my heart." Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich

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"And again there was silence, and again, the ghost of summer." Anna Akhmatova #Summer2023 #SummerSolstice #SummerSolstice2023 #ofdarkandmacabre Art by Joseph Tomanek, Fire Dance, 1889

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"Why write love poetry in a burning world? To train myself, in the midst of a burning world, to offer poems of love to a burning world." ~ Katie Farris Happy #NationalPoetryDay 🖤 #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity

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Three Things to Remember As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules. Mary Oliver 💫 #ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring

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"I feel I am lost. Equivalent to dead. It is terrifying. I no longer feel like making the effort. I think of no one. The rest is over. You as well. I am alone." Marguerite Duras #BookWormSat #gothicspring

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"The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers." Angela Carter 🖤 #BookWormSat 🎨 The Queen of the Mandrills, Leonora Carrington, 1959

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"Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires." Jean de La Fontaine Art by Stephen Mackey #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre

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"Çünkü kadın ruhuna ihanet etti. Onu yok saydı, umursamadı. Katlanmak zorunda olduğu insanlardan, hapishaneye dönen evlerden, zorunlu işlerden, banka hesaplarından, çocuk ağlamalarından, kimliklerden, maskelerden oluşan bir dünya yarattı."

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Hello July 🪶

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Hello June! ♥️

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"Do you know what it means to be loved by Death? Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?” ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre Art by George Roux, Spirite, 1885

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Geçen gün, Otopsi'yi okuduktan sonra beyaz yakalı işini bırakıp hep istediği gibi resim yapmaya başlayan bir kadın ulaştı bana, resimlerini yolladı. Tuhaf bir histi ama hayatımın en gurur verici anlarından biriydi de. 💜

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Hello July.

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So proud to have two poems published in The London Magazine! 🖤 @TheLondonMag Read "The Colour Carmine" and "Revenge is a Hot Dish" here:

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2 months

'It's us and the void' What a marvellous poem by @CarolineBirdUK 🪶

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@hering_david @poemakontsa Marcel Proust liked this!

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"this world all one heartbeat" Arctic Night, Lights Across the Sky by Linda Hogan

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Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, open at either end of day. The work of wings was always freedom, fastening one heart to every falling thing. ~ Li-Young Lee, One Heart 🎨 Andrea Kowch #ofdarkandmacabre #bookologythursday

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A Small-Sized Mystery by Jane Hirshfield 🐈‍⬛

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November 🖤 Art by Anna Speshilova

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"I shall go down into the garden. Into the night." Angela Carter #BookWormSat #bookchatweekly Art by Corey Brickley

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Evening Glow, Harald Sohlberg, 1893.

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I find I cannot exist without poetry. —John Keats Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face. —Anne Sexton Whenever I get lost, they find me in a poem. Poetry is my four directions. —Dunya Mikhail I don’t want to be a poet, I want to be poetry. —C.A. Conrad

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The void inside me.

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"You’ve always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself." — Glinda, The Wizard of Oz #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #OfDarkandMacabre Witches' Sabbath, by Francisco Goya, 1798

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"Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you." Lost by David Wagoner

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1 year

"His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat." Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 🖤 #ofdarkandmacabre Art by Stephen Mackey

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Oğlum çizdiği kitapçıya benim kitabımı koymuş. 🤣 #Otopsi

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3 years

"What is home but a book we write, then read again & again" I am so in love with this poem by @maggiesmithpoet ✨

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It is June. I am tired of being brave. — Anne Sexton Art by Aivazovsky #BookWormSat #ofdarkandmacabre

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Kitabımın 3. baskısı. 🖤 3rd edition of my book! #Otopsi

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“I don't speak to anyone for a week. I just sit on a stone by the sea." Anna Akhmatova

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3 years

What a haunting poem by @danalevinpoet 🖤

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Elegy by @ilya_poet ✨

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4 years

Bugün Dünya Öykü Günü. Kutlu olsun.

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4 years

Resmen yaz. / Officially summer. #erikli #sarosk örfezi

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4 years

Poetry gave me wings. I believe that I've found myselves in the poetry's magical climate. The images, figures of speech, rhythm, form and style, and the aesthetic beauty with all the enchanted words... Poems captivate me so deep that I cannot live without poetry. Not anymore.

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"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself." Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #ofdarkandmacabre Art by Bill Mayer