Madison Barclay

Writer & Poet | Resin Artist | Book Worm

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

🌟 Exciting news! My poetry book Breath by Breath: Poems for Anxious Minds is now available on Amazon. Let these poems be your safe space, one breath at a time. 💫 #poetry #mentalhealth #bookrelease #poetryforhealing

📖 Get your copy: [https://t.co/dOPuRh3nvo]

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

a sneak peek from my upcoming poetry collection, Day by Day: Poems for Grieving Minds 🫂

can’t wait to share these words with you soon ❤️

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

“and so I learned—
to offer without emptying,
to receive without guilt,
to let the world hold me
as I have held it.”

full poem:

https://t.co/MEKQatH5Rg

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

this year
i will hold myself
with the same gentleness
i offer
to the world
around me

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

Wild Things in Suits #dailyprompt

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[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

What would your life be like without music?

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[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

excited to say my poem “In Every Form” is out today in Coffee + Crumb’s fall collection. check it out 🤗
https://t.co/DGHfnxX2Tm

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

@pksdhaliwal @Senators 🙌🙌🙌

[Austin Ross @AustinTRoss]

you legally can't bully me for the next 30 days

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

How are you? https://t.co/D5TwBpeJ4m

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Today's poetry thread: HAPPINESS

Here's a little gift in a mad world. 🤍 Feel free to add poems.

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

I wonder
what defines me
in the absence
of what is expected

[Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem]

“It's almost cruel, he laughs. / After everything, how the world still insists / on being beautiful.”

— Joy Sullivan
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This poem appeared in Instructions for Traveling West: Poems by Joy Sullivan, published by the Dial Press, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

Gael Turnbull

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

the horizon holds its breath,
in that quiet pause before darkness falls,
when the world is bathed in a gentle glow,
and peace settles like the evening mist.

https://t.co/7w3g3mhjoz

[Chris Dennis @ChrisDnns]

Damn you, Louise Glück. How are you so beautifully reasonable.

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

I hear it often—
"so and so’s mom makes the best scrambled eggs,"
followed by the inevitable,
"not better than mine."

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[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

pinch me! just woke up to my first poem acceptance #overthemoon

[Madison Barclay @BarclayWords]

@jaiofearth Yep!! Can’t eat gluten in Canada but in Cuba I can eat all the gluten I want.

I chalk it up to the fact that wheat is way more processed here 🤷‍♀️

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

I have changed my mind about the world.

David Ignatow