Tim Carmichael

Joined March 2025

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I’m a firm believer life is messy, beautiful, and too short, which is why I write poems full of heart and humor. I am an Appalachian poet and cookbook author. My book Beautiful and Brutal Things is on Amazon, Link 👇

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When the First Frost Appears
The Breath becomes a Messenger That speaks in frosty Tongues Each Exhalation bears the News That Winter's Bell has Rung The Leaves, now Pilgrims of Descent,
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Poets
The Moon in Poetry
Dear Moon I have been meaning to write for some while now though I know you have received countless such notes from poets who came before me and who will come after.
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Poets
The Threshold
Through the ancient door, a hand of shadows reaches screams claw at the night.
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Poets
The Dying Flame. Runner-Up in Falling Leaves Challenge.
Golden fire trembles a breath carries it earthbound, silence holds the glow.
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Poets
The Hunt
I follow a shadow through the hill side It leaps when I move forward waits when I lose my nerve My body stumbles after it
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Poets
Dear Moon, A Poem About Homelessness and Human Dignity
Dear Moon, You have watched them sleep beneath cardboard shelters their breath visible in your cold light and bodies curled
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Poets
Hunting for Faith in a Divided World
I hunt the Almighty through the briars of Sunday morning sermons where salvation wears campaign buttons and holy water tastes of bile.
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Poets
The Casket of Regret
Upon the midnight's mournful air, A spectral voice finds my ear, The memory I cannot bear. It speaks of all that was so fair,
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Poets
Radiance in Shadow
Love binds me where it hurts, both sweet and stern, A shining chain that dazzles, then deceives. Its fire consoles while making spirit burn,
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Poets
Songs That Should Not Exist. Top Story - September 2025.
There are so many songs I could add to this list. 1. “Friday” – Rebecca Black Listen here “Friday” is the aural equivalent of stepping barefoot on a Lego. Every note is a testament to what happens when ambition meets no discernible talent. The autotuned vocals are robotic, the lyrics read like a diary of a caffeinated thirteen-year-old, and the beat is an unrelenting metronome of despair. Listening to this song is simply unpleasant. It is an experience of existential torment wrapped in a pop veneer.
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Beat
Emily Dickinson
She walked — alone — among the Sun and Frost — Counting Hours — like Petals — falling — one by one — The World — a distant Bell —
By Tim Carmichael6 months ago in Poets
The Velvet Memory. Top Story - August 2025.
She slipped through candlelight as though it parted for her, her dress the shade of dark wine. I was young, and certain then
By Tim Carmichael7 months ago in Poets