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May 2025

Find me here
Light leaves a mark
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Olu Ayo
What Happens to the Minutes You Don’t Use?
Reclaiming Time as a Creative Act in a World That Wants to Steal It
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Olu Ayo
In the far reaches of our minds
We want to be free & why I keep coming back to one particular freedom
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Olu Ayo
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Living Lines: The Boundaries They Drew, and the Freedom We Claim
Poetry in Process
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Olu Ayo
Delete the App, Find the Poem
It's in the Garden You Forgot You Were Growing
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Olu Ayo
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April 2025

Sinners & The Way Art Bends Our Minds Towards Liberation
Unstoppable liberation across space and time
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Olu Ayo
Three Ways I Live Through Words—and the Mystery I’m Still Chasing
What it means to be a writer, a teacher, a vessel—and why I can’t stop chasing the right words.
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Olu Ayo
Writing Through Heartbreak, Finding Voice in Vulnerability
Want to grow your Substack community? Matt shares hard-earned wisdom from building a global readership, one honest sentence at a time.
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Olu Ayo
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What Scares You Most? That’s Exactly What You Should Write
Writing my way into topics that scare the shit out of me
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Olu Ayo

March 2025

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