Liya’s Captured Words
Free-verse poems, new-book excitement and cheerful morning pep talks, all in one feed.
Raw essays, poetry, and candid reflections on reading, building, and figuring out life in your 20s. Always testing, learning, and navigating better. Read the latest piece below 👇
Liya’s Captured Words is a mostly English channel of poems, essays and reflections, posting since February 2025. Since August 2026 it has been a busy feed of free-verse poems, Substack links, book picks and short vlogs. It also shows up for the creative scene around it, from art exhibitions to shout-outs for fellow Telegram channels.
- Lately it has averaged 54.1 posts a week.
- It has posted every week for 13 weeks straight, and the streak is still going.
- Its favorite word is "love".
The journey.
- Feb 2025
Hashtag season
The channel opened in February 2025 with hashtag-heavy captions. Early posts covered a visit to Gola Art Gallery, a one-line verse about becoming "the Arthur of my legend", and a Thursday post on Roman and Norse mythology that mentions mapping a YouTube video with an app called Visual Mind.
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Pointing outward
From May 2025 the posts pointed to writing elsewhere: a Substack post, and a note that the work was also available on a LinkedIn newsletter, Blueprints and Verses. In August 2025 the channel announced a new initiative with the Ethiopian Society of Mechanical Engineers to spotlight aeronautics, starting with a drone event and panel discussion.
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Cosplay and galleries
By August 2026 the feed was busy, with a Death Note cosplay event and a review of the Grammar of Healing exhibition, loved and hated at once. A new Audible subscription got its own celebration, and early September brought a shout-out for a performance at a coffee house.
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Lights, camera, Toastmasters
In October 2026 the video diaries came back, with vlogs on TikTok and YouTube. The channel cheered on fellow Telegram channels, returned to Toastmasters, teased the return of The Mech Talk series and shared an update on the dream of becoming a published author.
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Building now.
The Mech Talk
BuildingPreparing something special with the team for the returning Mech Talk series, with invites promised soon.
Start here.
- 01
A short storm poem in the channel's free-verse style.
The storm is telling me I should stay indoors, Within my walls. His anger is protection, And I'm an idle imperfection. I can't change the weather, but I can adm...
Oct 26, 202631 views - 02
A morning pep talk: slow down, drink water, spend less time on the phone.
You are not going to wake up a ball of sunshine. Your subconscious has been processing the work that you put in daily. The byproduct could be a pile of wasteful...
Oct 20, 2026142 views - 03
A heartfelt mini-review of the Grammar of Healing art exhibition.
Grammar of Healing Curated Art Gallery at Studio 11 I would have bawled my eyes out if I hadn't been there with someone else. I loved and hated it at the same...
Aug 29, 2026157 views - 04
A small taxi story about a stranger who asked for help with his English.
One of my favorite things to do is meet people in taxis. You have to keep your boundaries, but people are amazing. Someone noticed how fast I typed and asked fo...
Oct 22, 2026126 views - 05
The tease for the return of The Mech Talk series.
Welcome back to the world of The Mech Talk series! I am preparing something special with the team. If you are passionate about innovation, engineering, and mean...
Oct 21, 2026190 views
In their own words.
Be uncomfortable, darling. You'll get better at it. Grass doesn't grow on greens.
Time is a shelf you have to reach in steps: slow and steady, the closer it gets.
Fresh from the channel.
The storm is telling me I should stay indoors, Within my walls. His anger is protection, And I'm an idle imperfection. I can't change the weather, but I can admire and love with words and expression. I'm waiting for you.
Tesmesgen🤍 Hope you guys had a lovely day. Let's push through the evening.
Cloudy Sermons Every time the taxi redat opened the door, I held on to, while I was writing this....😂😂
I don't know who might need this, but communication skills are also about adjusting to the needs and abilities of others. Drop the Google Meet link and have a phone call; some people say more in their actions than their words, so you will h...
We are smart enough to build a swing set, right? I don't have to be jealous of these kids anymore 😂
It's Monday 🥹🥹🫶