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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Eternal Embrace
Your name breaks open inside my mouth like fruit gone sweet with waiting. I am hunger that forgot it ever wanted food. Some days you are distant weather
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
OBSERVATION OF BEAUTY
All people are hereby informed that: Sunlight will enter today, stretching across hills and fields, turning dew into a thousand small lanterns.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
PUBLIC WARNING
Read slowly. Understanding is not guaranteed, but attention is required. * Carry proof of belonging. Present it when demanded.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
NOTICE TO ALL OBSERVERS
Please be advised: Love is scheduled to come without warning. It may come in forms you do not recognize, and at times you least expect.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
Practice of Looking
Morning opens lesson. Light settles upon water, steady, generous. Bird rests upon wire, dark eye awake, choosing sky
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
ATTENTION GRIEVANCE IN EFFECT. Winner in Public Announcement Challenge.
All personnel are hereby notified. Your routines may fail to sustain continuity. Absences of the departed have been recorded.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
Keys to Yesterday
This story centers around two siblings cleaning out their childhood home after the death of their father. “Are you just going to stand there holding that box all day?”
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Fiction
Rooms Without Doors
grief is a room with no doors i sit on the bed and talk to shadows that do not answer 💧 sometimes it rises
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
love arrives
love arrives in the silent moments, in the way you learn to forgive yourself first. ❤️ it teaches you that healing
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
Moving Forward
Life knocks us down, again and again! Delivers blows we never saw coming, shatters plans we thought were solid, breaks us open in ways we never imagined!
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets
My New Book is Finally Here. Top Story - January 2026.
My poetry collection Beautiful and Brutal Things is done. It's actually done and finally published over 270 pages. Over a year of my life went into this book. More than a year, really. Long days at my computer, sometimes seven days a week because I couldn't stop even when I probably should have. Then two months of editing that felt harder than the writing itself. But it's finished, and I'm still standing, and the book is real.
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in BookClub
The Purpose
What if love was the whole purpose? What if love was the only commandment that mattered, the single reason we draw breath,
By Tim Carmichael2 months ago in Poets