by Tess McCarthy
MorningPoems is the poetry series McCarthy created on Facebook and Instagram. Tess McCarthy is the creator of Them Cats and is also the editor-in-chief of VISUAL LIQUID, a publication focused on feminist lifestyle, poetry, art, and photography that showcase the work of the world’s most creative outliers. <br/><br/><a href="https://tessmccarthy.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">tessmccarthy.substack.com</a>
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August 29, 2025
<p><strong>She & Me</strong> It's been months since she and me have been together—my heart misses her. I am so happy to be near to her —as she is happy to be with me. It has been too long, too much to be away from her already, but then I see, I see she is meant to be away from me. It's so the missing is sweeter. It’s so the reunions are deep. We walk together on bright days —when the fall wind comes seeping in. The chill in the air isn’t a death knell. The trees, they cannot stay green anymore —they want to fade. We walk silently through them as the wind rustles the leaves more. There is nothing we can say to each other. Nothing left to improve things. There is the longing in the miss, and the missing in the longing. Let that open today. — August 29, 2025, at 2:30 p.m.</p><p>The MorningPoems Podcast Full Circle</p><p>After much deliberation, I decided to take control of my previously published poems that I had on Facebook & Instagram. At the time I enlisted the help of Aina (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ainaklima) to help me catalog my work. </p><p>You’d think someone like me—a former archivist & librarian—would be able to wield their own poetry collection around but it's daunting to organize one’s own work. The sane thing to do <strong>is</strong> enlist help. It creates distance and that distance creates the right amount of detachment to edit on your own.</p><p>I do recommend hiring editors and auxiliary staff to help manage intellectual property. </p><p>Any-the-how…</p><p>Upon delivery, I couldn't resist doing something with the over 780 poems propped up on a spreadsheet for me to ogle. </p><p>Moreover, content platforms like Meta own the rights to use (unlimited usage rights) your work for their benefit. </p><p>Last June I read “Poor Doggie” (2015) aloud: </p><p>🐕https://tessmccarthy.substack.com/p/morningpoem-319</p><p>I began Season 1, Episode 1 with my dog. And, Season 2 is arching on the heels of spending time with my dog.</p><p>I'll be moonwalking back to May 2021 for S.2, E.1—and, I can't wait to release it because it's about my late father.</p><p>Recently, I got a mixer and finally hooked up my Rode mic with the help of a friend who does mixing & recording for a living. I’m lucky for that. </p><p>Here is the bookmark to this mini-episode. Take a listen—</p><p>🎧: https://open.substack.com/pub/tessmccarthy/p/me-and-she</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The MorningPoems Podcast + Morning Poems by Tess McCarthy at <a href="https://tessmccarthy.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">tessmccarthy.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 16, 2025
<p><strong>Oh. Fantasy! </strong>Render me speechless with your kisses, I’ll close my eyes—go ahead. Trace your fingers across my belly so that I take your hands—as if to stop them —and kiss them as punishment. You feel so good. Who are you, and more importantly, why are you in my head? Why can’t you be in my bed? It would be funner if you were. But now, vivid doesn’t cut it. Instead of you touching me, I’m touching myself. Instead of kissing you, I’m kissing my pillow, I’m taking out my dildo—and, this has got to stop, break reality—please, for me, like an actor talking to the fourth wall. Step out of the set, walk down the hall, out the studio gates of this movie-like fantasy. Just promise me one thing— Let me be the Bogie to your Bacall. — May 16, 2025, at 7:11 a.m. // @morningpoems_</p><p>Credits </p><p>The MorningPoems Podcast is spoken, written & produced by yours truly. You can follow me—or not follow me—on Instagram, but I don’t want them having your attention. I just want you, my darlings.</p><p>Regrettably, this was posted on my Astrology/Jungian coaching account 🙄</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to MorningPoems + The MorningPoems Podcast by Tess McCarthy at <a href="https://tessmccarthy.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">tessmccarthy.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 8, 2025
<p><strong>Ghosts</strong> Ghosts of my father, my mother, my sister, and brother no longer bother. They still talk to me. My lover ghosts still haunt me —in good ways. I love the help they give me —especially in bed while sleeping. II. But give me the ghosts of my pets, please. Bring back Poogie—who ran away —after eight years. Bring back Piglet —who did not die in my company because I left my ex. And bring back Georgia —oh, for the love of the goddess, please. She was someone I loved so deeply and purely. She’s the ghost I miss the most. I want to hear her stirring in quiet morning hours. I want to hear the couch poof to her psychic landing. I want to smell summer grass at the top of my nose and I want to feel mossy mud between my toes for those are things that remind me of her. Pet ghosts are good things I am not afraid of —even the three ghosts of goldfish I flushed down the toilet —I’m so deeply sorry, forgive me. III. Ghosts are the energy patterns which stand for my love, and our sweet interactions. Ghosts of my friends, my ancestors, and those who have loved me, sit beside me, walk with me, and drive shotgun in my car, please. I miss your company, my Sweeties. — May 8, 2025, at 7:28 a.m.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to MorningPoems at <a href="https://tessmccarthy.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">tessmccarthy.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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MorningPoems is the poetry series McCarthy created on Facebook and Instagram.
Tess McCarthy is the creator of Them Cats and is also the editor-in-chief of VISUAL LIQUID, a publication focused on feminist lifestyle, poetry, art, and photography that showcase the work of the world’s most creative outliers. <br/><br/><a href="https://tessmccarthy.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">tessmccarthy.substack.com</a>
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