Joshua Walker (@bigjosh84.bsky.social)

@bigjosh84.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:23 PM

You are allowed to change your mind.

About what you want.
About what you believe.
About who you want to become.

Growth doesn’t owe consistency to the person you used to be.

Here’s some poems. 💙💙💙

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A poem about changing your mind when experience teaches you something new, framing growth as learning rather than weakness or inconsistency.

New Information

I changed my mind.

Not because
I was weak.

Because Tuesday
taught me something

Monday
didn’t know.

I refuse
to spend Wednesday

pretending
I didn’t learn it.

A poem about giving yourself permission to release an old dream when it no longer belongs to the person you have become.

Old Dreams

You are allowed
to stop wanting

the thing
you once begged for.

That dream belonged
to someone

who hadn’t lived
your life yet.

Thank them.

Then let them
want something else.

A reflective poem about growing older, recognizing past mistakes, and finding the courage to admit that experience has changed what you believe.

Wrong

I have been wrong

about people,
about love,
about myself,

with astonishing
confidence.

Growing older
has mostly been

learning to say,

I know better now,

and meaning it.

A poem about treating your younger self with compassion without feeling obligated to follow plans made before you had the knowledge and experience you have today.

No Contract

You owe
your younger self

compassion,

not obedience.

They made plans
with half the facts

and called them
forever.

You know more now.

Choose again.

@bigjosh84.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 12:12 AM

Thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to read them. Glad they landed with you!

@bigjosh84.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 12:07 AM

Thank you for reading them! I’m always grateful when these little pieces of me find a home with someone else. Really glad you enjoyed them.

@bigjosh84.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 12:02 AM

Thank you! I’m really glad they connected with you. It means a lot knowing people are out there reading and enjoying what I put into the world.

@bigjosh84.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 11:58 PM

Thank you so much, Jim. That genuinely means a lot to me. If the poems can make someone stop, think, or feel something for a moment, then they’ve done what I hoped they would. I really appreciate you reading them.

@bigjosh84.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 11:54 PM

Thank you, seriously. If something I write makes somebody feel a little less alone or a little more alright for a minute, then I’m definitely doing something right. I really appreciate you saying tha

@bigjosh84.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 3:07 AM

I'm truly honored to have “Basking in the Glory of Self-Defeat” nominated for Best Small Fictions 2027. Thank you, Dog Throat Journal, for believing in my work. Congratulations to my fellow nominees! I'm genuinely grateful to be included.

@bigjosh84.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 2:55 AM

As a kid, I thought adults had everything figured out.

Now I get excited when the store has my favorite bread, I have no idea what I’m doing half the time, and I’m pretty sure everyone else is winging it too.

Here’s some poems. 💙💙💙

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