The Dani Writer

Joined April 2019

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Explores words to create worlds with poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Writes content that permeates then revises and edits the heck out of it. Interests: Freelance, consultations, networking, rulebook-ripping. UK-based

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just yesterday you were little. Runner-Up in Holiday Reflections in Verse Challenge. Top Story - December 2024.
i lost faith in fairy tales and placed it in family and predictable rituals of silver-tongued finesse to sweet-secret that rum swizzle punch recipe outta uncle larry via encoded terminology within range of underage ears.
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Poets
The Last Eclipse
each occlusion is opportunity celestial realms offer opaque shrouds for inner work to commence lamentations may persist beneath this veil and
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Poets
To the Only "Sus scrofa domesticus" I’ve Ever Admired. Content Warning.
Dear Miss Piggy, It’s an indisputable fact that my childhood was enviably outstanding with you in it. That, in and of itself, would be sufficient acknowledgment, but I need big. Waaay BIGGER!
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Humans
Blade and Burn
Razor sharpened steel comprises every surface entry and exit point of me Confounds logic to some Clueless ones who felt not final vestiges of my sanctity
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Poets
X-Rated Meteorological Updates
Daybreak YAY blue sky! Blink-blink-BLINNNK cloud then downpour. F@©k UK weather. ________________________________
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Poets
Sometimes All You Have Is Hope
Every hope I held escaped to sky then looked back with stars that said, "Come." _________________________________________
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Poets
From Me and All of Us with Love for the Artist Tavares Strachan. Top Story - October 2024.
The anticipation: Inside me a geyser mid-expulsion, whilst outside…this veneer of calm. My destination: The Royal Academy of Arts in London (RA).
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Art
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
A serendipitous saunter through libraries or bookstores to catch what calls out to me is not only a wild ride, it also connects me with talented, unforgettable authors I might otherwise miss. One Young Adult novelist snagged through my methods was Jason Reynolds’s New York Times Bestseller, Long Way Down.
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in BookClub
Coping Mechanisms . Content Warning.
Faces flare maximum tint at post-its that cover floor through ceiling like a multi-colored confetti of desecrated Care Bears reduced to sparkly individuated mini-missives.
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Poets
Incessancy. Top Story - September 2024.
Insistent prayers morph into poem when stress strikes eyes that glimpse relief in rainbow-contoured light. In silence, I abandon shallow for subterranean inhales of aromatic haven.
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Poets
Dark Drinks Are the Devil
he ain't trust no one who don't like coffee i exemplify the epitome of untrustworthiness got my artesian spring water and fresh-squeezed organics
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Poets
Poetic Scruples
I'll pick apart this poem long before it's even written Some usual phrase deletions expletive substitutions nasty mid-afternoon purges
By The Dani Writerabout a year ago in Poets