A quiet room to write in, and a warm one to share from.
Founded by Nkeiru Okeke
One poem every other day. Each moon lights up on a day you write.
Everything you write here is private until you choose to share it.
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Your poems, private and shared. Only you can see the private ones.
Poems people have chosen to share. Read slowly, leave a kind note.
For the days the page stays blank. Pick one and it waits for you at the desk.
Shown on every poem and note you share.
Download everything you’ve written here, including private poems and notes to yourself.
This permanently deletes your account, every poem (private and shared), your notes and your appreciations. It can’t be undone.
Open reports from readers. Hidden poems and notes disappear from the community but aren’t deleted.
This room works because people feel safe enough to be honest. These rules keep it that way.
Only share poems you wrote. If you quote or respond to someone else’s work, say so. You keep the rights to everything you write; by sharing a poem you let this site show it to readers.
Respond to the poem, not the person. Encouragement and thoughtful reactions are welcome. Harassment, insults, threats and hate based on who someone is are not.
Members can be as young as 13. Poems can explore hard feelings, but no sexually explicit material, no graphic violence for its own sake, and no content that encourages self-harm.
Don’t share anyone’s personal details, such as addresses, phone numbers or private messages, and don’t name real people in ways that could hurt them.
No links to sell things, no repeated posts, and no promotion unrelated to poetry.
Writing about pain is part of poetry, and it’s welcome here. If you’re in crisis, please reach out to someone now. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans are free to call any time on 116 123. Elsewhere, your local emergency number or a crisis line can help.
Anyone can report a poem or note. Moderators may hide content that breaks these rules and may stop an account from sharing. If you think a decision was wrong, contact .
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Kiki’s Poetry Room is run by , who is responsible for your data. Contact: .
Only to run the site for you: saving your writing, showing the poems you choose to share, and keeping the community safe through moderation. We don’t sell your data, show ads or use tracking cookies.
Private poems and notes to yourself are visible only to you. Not even moderators can read them. Poems you share, your pen name and notes you leave on shared poems are public, including to visitors who aren’t signed in. If someone reports your shared poem or note, moderators see it alongside the report.
Your data is stored by Supabase (database and sign-in) and the site is served by Netlify. They process data only on our instructions.
Until you delete it. Deleting a poem removes it straight away. Deleting your account removes your account and everything linked to it.
You can download all your writing and delete your account at any time from the Account page. You can also ask us to access, correct or erase your data, or object to how we use it, by contacting . If you’re unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
You must be 13 or older to create an account.
We keep your sign-in session and any unsaved draft in your browser’s local storage. This is needed for the site to work and isn’t used for tracking.
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we’ll say so on the site.
About the poet
Nkeiru Okeke is a writer who explores culture, identity, society and the complexities of human experience through poetry, fiction and essays.
Her work moves between the intimate and the political, examining the ways inherited beliefs, social structures and personal histories shape the lives we inhabit.
She is interested in the stories societies tell about themselves, the silences they preserve, and the possibilities of imagining otherwise. It was this interest that led her to start Kiki’s Poetry Room.