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Every day arrives already bruised.
This week's Thursday Lantern is live.

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — Ambient Collapse
A quiet poem about noise, exhaustion, and the small, stubborn act of continuing on when the world feels too loud to hold.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The world feels darker than it should be.
But darkness isn't victory.
Not yet.

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — When the World Goes Dark
Things feel bleak and biblical lately—politics, hate, the world unraveling. Not a sermon, but a whisper of survival: not yet, not like this.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:52 AM
A new Lantern is lit.
This one’s for the age of outrage — where clowns are kings, and bile is holy oil.

🔗 Read The Troll’s Liturgy at wrightspoetry.com
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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern: The Troll’s Liturgy
The piece explores the chaotic modern landscape of digital culture, depicting how society collectively nurtures toxicity, transforming outrage into a new form of worship while reflecting on our troubling progress.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A Thursday Lantern Reflection on the quiet harm of comparison, and the fight to see ourselves without the distortions of someone else's highlight reel.

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — The Measure of Other People
A Thursday Lantern Reflection on the quiet harm of comparison, and the fight to see ourselves without the distortions of someone else's highlight reel.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Every day it’s some new atrocity.
And every day, another lie.

This week’s Lantern is about loud justifications, manufactured outrage, and refusing to mistake exhaustion for consent.

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — Every Day, Another Lie
Every day brings a new atrocity—and a new justification. A poem about noise, lies, and refusing to mistake exhaustion for consent.
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January 29, 2026 at 11:58 PM
A light-hearted Thanksgiving poem for today’s chaos and comfort.
Read “A Prayer for the Feast” now at wrightspoetry.com.

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern: A Prayer for the Feast
Hoodie Season evokes nostalgia and acceptance, highlighting comfort amidst change during October's chill.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🕯️ The Thursday Lantern returns.
This week’s story drifts through the fields, where the corn grows tall enough to keep secrets—and the scarecrow always comes back. 🌾

Read now at wrightspoetry.com

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern: The Scarecrow on Maple Hill
Hoodie Season evokes nostalgia and acceptance, highlighting comfort amidst change during October's chill.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
A poem about the moments we don't get back — and the ones we still can. Before the Moment Passes is live now at wrightspoetry.com

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — Before the Moment Passes
A tender, aching prose poem about answering the small miracles before they slip away. A reflection on regret, presence, and the fragile urgency of love.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
🕯 The Thursday Lantern is lit.

Tonight’s light: “Lantern at the Door.”

A poem for those who wander, those who remember, and those who still believe there’s warmth in the dark.

Read the full piece on the blog — link in bio.

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern: Lantern at the Door
A weekly light — poetry, stories, and reflections from the strange in-between. Lantern at the Door I leave a light for the ones who wander,the restless, the dreamers,the ones who look backward when the night gets too quiet. This door opens to nowhere and everywhere.Inside: stories that hum like trapped bees,poems stitched from old smoke and new sorrow.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Some weeks, the weight doesn't show on the outside. This poem is for the quiet fear under the ribs, the one you carry even when no one sees it.

Read "The Quiet Terror of Not Enough" at wrightspoetry.com
New light every Thursday.

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern: The Quiet Terror of Not Enough
A modern abecedarian poem about the quiet terror of feeling like your not enough. A Thursday Lantern entry on doubt and endurance.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Turns out water won’t boil while you’re watching because the magic workers don’t perform under supervision.
A lighter Thursday Lantern—cozy fantasy, blue-collar magic, and everyday truths.
Read now at wrightspoetry.com

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — The Union of Waiting
A quiet reflection on the unseen labor, patience, and the strange truth that some things only happen when no one is watching. A whimsical meditation on waiting, work, and the invisible forces that keep the ordinary world moving.
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February 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Inspiration isn’t always gentle. Sometimes it’s pressure, motion, and letting your own thoughts get loud enough to collide.
This week’s Thursday Lantern is live.
Read at wrightspoetry.com

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — Brainstorm
I make the storm on purpose. I don’t wait for it. I shut the door in my head And let the pressure climb Until the air starts to move On its own
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February 6, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Some days don’t announce themselves.
They just quietly keep things standing.

The Department of Lost Days

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — The Department of Lost Days
There is a department that handles lost days. Not the bad ones. Not the good ones. Just the days that pass through
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January 8, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Christmas has always felt like an ache to me.
Not joy. Not sorrow. Something in between.
A quiet melancholy that settles once the noise fades.

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🕯️ The Thursday Lantern — After the Lights Go Out
Christmas has always felt like an ache to me. Not joy. Not sorrow. Something in between. A quiet melancholy that settles once the noise fades.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM