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Life & fun · June 20, 2022

Flowers Are Just Tiny Trees

A satire of modern Instagram poetry

Flowers Are Just Tiny Trees launched on June 20, 2022 with 86 votes, #402 of 3,005 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

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What it does

A while back, I saw some text on a white background get over 100k likes on Instagram and thought, "I can do that too." What started as a joke turned into 4k followers and ~$1.6k in sales of a poetry book, which I'm now giving away for free.

Flowers are Just Tiny Trees by The Tumblr Poet is now available as a free PDF (Poetry Document Format).

Want the full story behind t.t. poet? Here's how I became an Instagram poet . But as I start work on my next side project, I find myself digging it up again and remembering how much joy it brought others (I once showed a poem😔🥀 to a friend of a friend over drinks who proceeded to literally cry at "how stupid it was"). The Tumblr Poet made me a few hundred bucks in profit (most of which I donated), earned me some new readers as a writer, and got me job opportunities, podcast invites, and even a few new friends. But above all, it reminded me of the kind of uncompromising artist I admired and aspired to be as a kid—the kind who created whatever they wanted. That's why I've decided to make…from braveenkumar.com

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