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Mani

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29. Vegan💚 #VegansEat for my cooking👩🏾‍🍳
Writer ✍️🏾 #Writingsbymani
Creative Weirdo👽✨️🔮
#PlaylistPoetry/ Other🔗: Linktr.ee/writingsbymani
Galaxies in our Backyard, is on Amazon for $8.88💫
Aligning to my soul tribe❤️‍🔥
Following my north star✨️

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Mani @maniiilove.bsky.social · Nov 14

Trying to find mutuals & community🦋🫀

• Horror (esp psychological horror fans)
• Writers, artists, & creatives
• BWE/Black women safe spaces
• Cannabis 🍃
• Astrology, spirituality, self-concept
• Healing (yoga, EMDR, gut health, therapy, ect)
• Vegan cooking & baking
#promosky
#skyline
#blacksky

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Excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle✨️📖 p.s.- Happy 8/8 day!🦁🔥✨️🪄
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#fyp #amazon #kindleunlimited #writingsbymani #BVM #AuthorSky #BookSky #poetrycommunity #reading #lionsgate #manifest #bookworm #poetryporn

The Night Before

It was always the girl that wore tight bright dresses, in hues of yellows and oranges, that reflected underneath dance floors and discos, that left streaming trails and whiffs of mesmerizing essence and sparkles behind in her wake. That girl, heated in dance and dripping in desire, smooth and cunning as a jaguar and as exotic as an uncharted jungle terrain, who was never without flowers and ornate tokens of anything precious and of value, was the same girl that was left alone to scrub the remnants of wine stains and smeared lipstick from the night before.

-Excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle

August 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM

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What does space mean to you? How does love fill up that space? Questions that are being pondered in my new poem below. Happy August, everyone🔥💖✨️🔑
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Love in the Spaces

"What is love within a space?
Does it fill every curve, every nook and crevice?
Can it smooth over warped rough edges? Is it a container for deep knowingness?
Or is love just allowing and in that space, existence?
Acceptance. Respect. Understanding.
No refiltering. No excavation.
Just allowing the moments passing.
Can you ever really know all of someone? Should we?
Could the deep well that exists within all of us, simply be, the bubbled illusion that love should burst through?
Spaces were made to be filled.
I do not think love was meant to be in the same way.
Maybe love is always waiting for bravery.
For the one who does not desire its captivity.
Just a signature left of its essence.
Just a witness of its glory."

-Poem by Writings by Mani

August 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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For my lover girls and guys, here is a poem to help open and awaken your heart chakra❤️‍🔥 An excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle💖🙏🏾✨️🌸
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#writingsbymani #WriterSky #AuthorSky #kindle #amazon #love #romance #heart #readmorebooks

A Lover's Eyes
"Love is the faceless flower, that surrounds the dirt in such a way, that the dirt doesn't think of itself as dirt, but as a rich emollient and the weeds, don't think of themselves as weeds, but as a mighty rainforest and the water as more than just common H20, but as the magical elixir that heals, restores, and transforms"

-Excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle

July 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM

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You are the economy. You are the asset. You are the power. Just in case you forgot or when the world/this matrix is trying to tell you otherwise. Everything you are is more than enough. Always have been and always will be💗

July 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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An excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle: a.co/d/7sCwsxa
Thank you for the support ✨️🌸🙏🏾
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"The heart is the window to all things. It sees, feels, breathes, and captures in real physiological and psychological results, the world as we experience it. So really in the end, following your heart is the key that unlocks the truth of the world."

-Excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle

July 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM

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An excerpt from my poetry book, Galaxies in Our Backyard, available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle: a.co/d/7sCwsxa
Thank you for the support ✨️🌸🙏🏾
#writingcommunity #poetry #writingsbymani #book #amazon #kindlebooks #writerslift #amazonkindle #AuthorSky #WriterSky

"Because you see with different eyes, you are chosen. And despite all reasons that say otherwise, to be chosen is to be luck"

-Excerpt from Galaxies in Our Backyard by Imani Hassan available on Amazon & Amazon Kindle

July 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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✨️Happy Moonday, Lovers!✨️
🧵Last week, we paused. We celebrated with family, reflected in stillness, and rooted deeper into who we’re becoming and where we’re headed. That meant no new Playlist Poetry drop, and instead, a moment to integrate⬇️ #PlaylistPoetry #WritingsbyMani

July 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM

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So many shifts, upgrades (happy post-Summer Solstice ☀️), & chaotic world happenings! 🫠 First week we healed, last week we danced & found our joy, & so this week, it only made sense to focus on tuning into our energy & grounding into "peace as revolution." More ⬇️
#PlaylistPoetry #WritingsbyMani

June 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM

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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM

Mani

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The way I just inhaled my burrito and taco salad is shameful😭 didn't even get the chance to take a picture for a new #VegansEat post🫣😳

June 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM

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Playlist in Poetry Week 2

📆This week's theme: Joy in Movement

🎧Playlist: 🌸Joy in Bloom🌸

✈️🌍Where:🔗🌳 in bio. Separate links for Tidal, Spotify, & Youtube

#writingsbymani #PlaylistPoetry #joy #soundhealing

June 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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Click my 🔗🌳 in my bio for Tidal, Spotify, and YouTube playlists.

Theme: Healing in Isolation

Playlist: 🥀When Healing Feels Lonely

🙏🏾Thank you for listening. Thank you for choosing yourself. Thank you for tapping in.

#writingsbymani #PlaylistPoetry #healing #soundhealing #music

June 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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Introducing Playlist Poetry: Curated sounds + soul-stirring words for the hidden well within you.
🗓 Theme: Healing in Isolation
🎧 When Healing Feels Lonely
🌿 For the days that feel too heavy, let this hold you.
🧠Prompt in the post ⬇️
PlaylistPoetry: 🔗 in bio
#writingsbymani #PlaylistPoetry #healing

June 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM

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The Same Thing

The way a vow on the happiest of days can be broken, the way a lover's heart can turn cold, the way a once-held warm hand can be unmissed, the way a blissful word can stay on lingered lips, is the same way love can transform wilted hearts and ment the broken promises of what happened before.

May 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM

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Am I a Winner? Have we won? If so, what is the prize?

#WritingsbyMani #poetry #artisnotdead #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerslife #amwriting #WIP #BlueskyWriter #PoetsofBluesky #PoetsofBluesky

May 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM

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A Woman's Equation. Always have hope. Never give into despondency. No matter what. A poem to uplift you in your darkest moments.

#WritingsbyMani #PoetrySky #BlueskyPoetry #PoetsofBluesky #artisnotdead #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writerslife #amwriting #WIP #WomensRights

A Woman's Equation

"Hope is an inner knowing.

An acknowledgment that the light of life will bless you with a kiss at the end of a cataclysmic journey.

Being a woman in this experienced oppression is like being the walking and breathing embodiment of that.

Hope. It has never been materialized, created, or nurtured to greatness when life is easy.

No, it can only thrive when born in the throes of darkness. And chaos. And destruction.

That's where it shines the brightest. And that's where she stands and remains, unassailable.

She is rising above the turmoil.

Rooted firm in the trust that a mere flame flickering and dancing in small hands will carry you on from the ashes to your glory.

Hope is the promise we make to ourselves that despite the encroaching despondency in knowing that,

this world was not made for women, and that women were not made for this world, there is still faith.

Despite the game of life seeking to devour the feminine essence whole and unrelentingly.

Aside from the fact that this matrix is dark.

Chaotic. Messy. Confusing. Imbalanced.

It feels as if the sands of time have made it too late for us all.

Out of time to trek down forgotten stories and cultures of the Ones Before Us.

Nowhere to go when we've lost our connections to each other and ourselves.

All unity and respect will continue to be lost and inexorable in our current state.

But this world has women.

For me, there will always be hope."

May 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM

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🔻MisterDwerkSumn / Andre Skeet Thousand 🤘🏽💕💀🎭

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As a former a drug addict…I hate how yall treat addicts. This houseless person telling me multiple times that he wont use the bread I gave him for drugs. Idc if he was, wasn’t gonna stop me from giving it to em. But the way he thought he had to convince me he wasnt one to “keep” the bread…angering

May 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM