Alexandria Stanwyck

Joined October 2021

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My inner child screams joyfully as I fall back in love with writing.

I am on social media! (Discord, Facebook, and Instagram.)

instead of therapy: poetry and lyrics about struggling and healing is available on Amazon.

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the many uses of rope. Top Story - January 2026. Content Warning.
i run my hands along the fibers of my words; some scrape the skin off my fingertips, leaving me raw to their power, while others feel like gentle lips
By Alexandria Stanwyck8 days ago in Poets
In this cold, I have you
Eyes - windows to peek inside. In yours, I can see the warmth of your soul.
By Alexandria Stanwyck17 days ago in Poets
smothered . Content Warning.
I always thought it would go out suddenly, like a candle, with only a whisper of smoke and black tipped wicks to serve as a reminder that it was lit.
By Alexandria Stanwyck21 days ago in Poets
dream, but not too big
They always told me to dream big, stretch my branches to reach the sky and take a star out of heaven. Then my branches would grow too high;
By Alexandria Stanwyck28 days ago in Poets
scratching out potatoes
I used to think those August afternoons were only about clawing into the dirt, scratching out potatoes, until the dirt feel asleep in our nail beds,
By Alexandria Stanwyck2 months ago in Poets
Autumn's Tears. Top Story - November 2025.
They don't crunch under my feet anymore. They rustle, whisper reminders of days past, of eruptions of laughter. Brown, orange, and yellow
By Alexandria Stanwyck2 months ago in Poets
there's never enough
I finally saw my first glimpse of it today as the dawn broke over the horizon -a beige flash, gone so quickly, I thought it was a trick of the light
By Alexandria Stanwyck2 months ago in Poets
until the quiet is broken
The quiet is a pretty thing until it breaks like fine white china
By Alexandria Stanwyck3 months ago in Poets
pareidolic realities. Winner in Haunted Echoes Challenge.
one day the shadow will be a man and not clothes hanging on a hook
By Alexandria Stanwyck3 months ago in Poets
how to build (and protect) a lantern
i lit the candle inside and passed it over to someone who promised safety and watched as they did nothing to protect it from the wind
By Alexandria Stanwyck3 months ago in Poets
being twenty-something. Top Story - October 2025. Content Warning.
Before reading, please read the story linked below since it explains how I came across Dan Whitlam and his debut poetry collection.
By Alexandria Stanwyck3 months ago in BookClub
the mums demand honesty. Content Warning.
on the 5th, we bought red mums on the 9th, we had to put our cat down on the 9th, at some pier wind gusting hair in my face i wrote this and hoped the wind would take away some of the pain:
By Alexandria Stanwyck3 months ago in Poets