Vironika Wilde

Poet / spoken word artist / award-winning author / Ukrainian / Bashkir Tatar / Nagaybak / immigrant / survivor / activist / mama bear / cat fanatic

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

Raw, time-travelling page turner about a survivor seeking salvation in all the wrong places. A brutally honest tear-jerker with a metal and industrial playlist.

#posterpit #posterpitq #Q #P #A #NA

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

This poem from my poetry book Love & Gaslight has #clench in it, so I want to share it for today's #vss365 prompt. I'm so glad I left him 🥹

#poetry

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

A poem from one book lover friend to another who's finalizing a divorce 🥹

I had such a great time writing custom poems at Wortley Pride today!

#poetry

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

Some people hear your No
as something exotic, alluring,
a melody of #forbidden treasure.
It is your unfortunate responsibility
to speak up, repeat, tighten your tone
until you are heard.

#poetry #vss365

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

When #dusk falls too quickly,
and the night lasts too long,
I'll face the dawn boldly.
With the sun, I rise strong.

#vss365 #poetry

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

Writing typewriter poems for strangers is, in some ways, more vulnerable than writing my own poems. It's not only the time pressure. It's the sun outside or LED lights inside. It's the wind or the noise. Most of all, it's the absence of a backspace button.

#poetry

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

@optionurol thanks so much

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

#Mother Earth has postpartum depression. It's all hands on deck now.

#poetry #vss365

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

Neglecting to communicate your disinterest because you want to keep someone's half-broken heart as a safety net is not harmless. It's cruel the same way cheating is cruel. If you're not into a person, let them go. There's no #victory in mind games.

#vss365

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

Sometimes, it's so hard to tell the difference between fear and intuition. I know. I know. Time will tell. But living through that time feels like torture. All that’s left is to breathe, wait, and consciously #tether to reality.

#vss365

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

Like weeding a garden,
we must free our heads
from the #lingering voices
of those who never
wanted to see us
grow.

#poetry #vss365 #linger

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

I used to come and go
like a #feral cat
looking for a feeding,
ears low, teeth bared.

Only now that
I have something more
do I see: that was not
love.

#vss365 #poetry

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

I know nothing
of #unalloyed joy.
My heart has always
been tarnished
by someone's suffering,
whether mine or not.
I know nothing
of unadulterated bliss.
I'm fine this way.
I know nothing
of true ignorance.

#vss365 #poetry

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

It's all chaotic #diligence and diligent chaos around here.

#vss365 #poetry

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

@optionurol Wow. Short and poignant. Love it.

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

To be medicinal, poetry must
come from some real place:
rage, grief, #affection, shock.

Not affectation.

Not ego.

Not algorithm-pleasing.

#vss365

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

@eileenwanita Then you'd better let it gestate fully before you do so it doesn't arrive a stillborn.

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

@kasylongauthor Both toddlers got sick ... sigh.

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

Even if you didn't escape in #lightning time, it was still a crime.

#vss365 #poetry

[Vironika Wilde @vtugaleva]

@hunne_writes sure 🥹✨