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Oskilo

@warpedpoetic

Creative writer, Poet, fantasy genre nut, listener and friend. I have a story to tell... want to read it?

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Oskilo
@warpedpoetic Jun 9, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

The Long Goodbye

In 2017, I joined steemit, not knowing how much that act would change my life. When hive chain forked from steemit, I followed the train and continued to create content here. Hive became a lab where…

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Oskilo
@warpedpoetic Nov 15, 2024, 11:54 PM UTC

For those who Seek to Journey into the Unknown

To prepare, to look the thing in the eye and make demands, to step through the fog into a clarity that is so bright you feel blind, to move a piece across the board and call it victory, flesh became…

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Oskilo
@warpedpoetic Nov 13, 2024, 4:02 AM UTC

The Devil Comes: A Poem and Reflection

I wrote this piece immediately after seeing the short film titled THE HOUSE IS BLACK by Forugh Farrokhzad, an Iranian Poet and film maker. The film reflected the suffering and sadness of people livin…

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Oskilo
@warpedpoetic Nov 6, 2024, 10:09 PM UTC

Salvation was too High to Come in through the Door

I dream of a surplice and plastic plants trapped inside curtains covered by electric lamps. There the room grows big with its ghosts and sleeps. Who will gently open the door into where i debone my f…

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Oskilo
@warpedpoetic Nov 5, 2024, 8:04 AM UTC

Leaving the Single Life

A lot of persons have expressed their bewilderment at my sudden decision to get married. No one is as surprised as I. Sometimes I sit back and wonder about how I moved from being against the idea of…

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Oskilo
@warpedpoetic Oct 28, 2024, 11:03 AM UTC

She

She's pretty but strange/smooth the skin/the veil/whittled down to smile/to mask the tide/the fever/ the haze/to move inside the flesh like something wrong/the wrong dress/mind/ all unreason/But list…

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Oskilo
@warpedpoetic Oct 27, 2024, 4:11 PM UTC

It's a Sunday

This is more of a meditation on Sunday, on today, on life. I wrote it on an app and for the life of me, I can't seem to be able to copy it. There are things that the beauty of a Sunday can't influenc…

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Oskilo
@warpedpoetic Oct 25, 2024, 8:43 AM UTC

RE: MUSIC FOR WRITERS

Indeed you're so right, my friend @trucklife-family. I have recently discovered how music, surprisingly, classical music, which I didn't bother with before, moves me when combined with viewing either…

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Oskilo
@warpedpoetic Oct 23, 2024, 8:20 PM UTC

Music for The Writer

I love to rap music. I like the cadence, the rhythm, the word play, the way the words make the music bounce, the internal rhyme. I love it still but I recently times, I have begun to crave silent mus…

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Oskilo
@warpedpoetic Oct 22, 2024, 10:59 AM UTC

Note To Self

Waking up each morning takes some grace. I don't mean grace in the biblical sense but rather grace in the sense of something taken for granted. Sleep, I consider to be the little death. It puts you i…

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