Ellie Hoovs

Joined December 2020

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Breathing life into the lost and broken. Writes to mend what fire couldn't destroy. Poetry stitched from ashes, longing, and stubborn hope.

My Poetry Collection DEMORTALIZING is out now!!!: https://a.co/d/5fqwmEb

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Mirror
I often think of the hours wasted watching questions ripple in mercurial pools of silver. Glass framed in gilded oak,
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets
Fantasy
I waste my breath in unrequited sighs that have steeped for decades in empty cups of longing. Has this world forgotten
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets
Potion. Top Story - May 2025.
They say there's no such thing as magic but this bottle knows better: black label, liquid amber, sealed with promises
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets
Just Leave. Content Warning.
They say just leave... they don't see the holes in the walls that remind me that they could be put through me. They say just leave...
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets
Dear Fam - I regret to inform you...
Subject: Formal Resignation from the Role of “Family Glue” (Effective Immediately) Dear Hoovs Family, Please consider this my official notice of resignation from the position of Chief Emotional Support Officer, Head of Household Logistics, Peacekeeper-in-Residence, Unofficial Family Butler, and Muber Mobile. Effective immediately.
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Journal
Adventure
Time unfurled a single yarn from the hem of a sweater pulling apart the fabric of it. Light consumed all darkness until even the word shadow
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets
Millennial
They bled dry the branches, leaving no fruit on the trees, while we named the cracks they tried to paint over. Decades of waking up
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets
Hat
He handed it to me when I was 25, with a Cheshire cat smile, knowing it wasn't my team, and liking it all the better for it.
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets
Dream
Snow falls, weaving lace from a forlorn sky that caresses the tender edges of sand dunes. Indigo waves buoy lamented lullabies,
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets
Mad
I caught the deep inky blue of it in bottles labeled 'pleasing' and set them on a shelf next to bowls full of tears
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets
Cards
I tore the joker He told me I couldn't play hearts with tarot that showed I was best friends with fools and blind men
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets
Daffodils
In the hush beneath powerlines, through fractured stones, no gardener knelt to bless them. No springtime choir sang.
By Ellie Hoovs8 months ago in Poets