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Julia Figliotti Riley (she/her)
@juliafigliotti.bsky.social
writer, poet, singer, songwriter, optimist, activist
I've learned to listen when the Universe speaks to me.

#poem #poet #poetry
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Lists" (excerpt)

#poetry #poem #poet
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Keep going
Keep growing
Keep glowing
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Mary Oliver’s questions have been on my mind.

#acrostic #poem #poetry #MaryOliver #Poem133 #TheSummerDay
October 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Sometimes it's a roller coaster, sometimes it's a fright fest. You're still the one I wanna go through time with <3
October 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Lookin' at you, most world "leaders"

#haiku #poem #poetry
October 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Don’t shut it out. Feel the fury and sorrow and pain. But find joy, too.

#poetry #poem
October 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This change of seasons is a big one for me. After 8 years in many roles, I'm leaving the Americans of Conscience Checklist. Gratitude to the wonderful folks I’ve volunteered with, the celebrations & rages we’ve shared, & the countless actions we’ve crafted & amplified to empower a kinder nation. (🧵)
October 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is the affirmation that opens Assata Shakur's brilliant and lyrical autobiography, "Assata."

May she rest in power. May we continue to believe.
September 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"to love oneself enough to change is a higher form of living than obstinate stagnation"

You matter more than they could ever understand <3

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransLivesMatter #poetry #poem
September 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Aw, hbd LJ <3 (even if I totally forgot about you)
September 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Recorded tonight's #poem because I want to remember how I feel right now

#GoBills #poetry
September 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
My Therapist Has a Garden 💚

#acrostic #poem #poet #poetry
August 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Last week I was pulling weeds when my client, a lovely elderly woman, asked me to check the time. I reached around to look at my phone and saw a #monarch #butterfly. She landed on the milkweed plant growing right behind me and laid a single egg on the underside of a leaf.

#acrostic #poem #poetry
August 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social writes us letters every night. On Monday I wrote her an #ode.

Background photo by Urs Lendermann

#poetry #poet
August 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I will never apologize for loving myself deeply.

#poem #poetry
July 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Exploring the value of insignificance in this week's #acrostic #poem.

#poetry #poet
July 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is the best "you sound just like #StevieNicks" comment I've ever received and the user deleted it after a couple days 😭 So glad I snagged a screenshot!

#FleetwoodMac #FleetwoodMacTribute #TributeBand #songbirdsWNY
July 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
#AndreaGibson has been spilling into the crevices of my mind for a week.

I will be forever grateful for their #poetry, their humanity, and their authentic presentation of life in all its the moments.
July 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Yesterday was a Big Cry™️ day.

#poetry #freeform #poem #poet
July 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A #sonnet from a Saturday long past.

#poem #poetry #poet
July 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Sometimes I add little Easter eggs into my #FleetwoodMac tribute band's social media posts and photos to make people laugh, and a lot of those times they're so subtle that no one notices and I feel sad.

Anyway follow @songbirdswny on lotsa platforms.
July 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Since I started #writing daily #poetry, I've consistently dreaded Wednesdays — #limerick day. For such a simple formula, they baffle me. I've started leaning into my dislike & looking at it as a day of rest where I can phone it in. It's a good reminder not to take myself too seriously as a #poet.
June 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
We did it! Way to go, team 🤘

Thank you to everyone who helped these two WNY Music Makers raise $405 between sunrise and sunset on #TheLongestDay, for a (current) total of $2,060 raised to #EndALZ!
June 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Thank you VERY much for the two donations that got WNY Music Makers to 20% of our team's goal!

I def thought we'd have more than just the 2 of us on #TheLongestDay which is why the goal is soooo out there 😂 but we have til July 31 to raise $10,000 so we're gonna try!
June 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM