old souls

coming soon to the app store

dear you,

tell me what you’re carrying. i’ll write you a poem.

old souls is an iphone app that writes you a short poem for your day, from your own words. it arrives like a letter, on paper, with a fine-line drawing. keep it in your book, put it on your lock screen, or send it to someone you never found the words for.

old souls

p.s. it’s almost ready. to hear the day it arrives, write to us at dh@viulet.com.

how a poem arrives

a sentence is enough. the poet reads every word.

  1. the app asking “how are you, really?”, with a few honest words written on ruled linesi.

    say how you are, really

    in your own words, the way you’d tell a friend
  2. a poem called “the porch light”, written as a letter to maria, signed old soulsii.

    a poem arrives, written for you

    on paper, with a drawing, signed by hand
  3. a hand-bound book with “dear maria,” on its paper title slipiii.

    it becomes a page of your book

    bound in your name, to read like a book

a poem, as it arrives

an example. every poem is new, written from what someone shares.

monday, 9 november

dear maria,

the porch light

  1. you keep the porch light on
  2. for someone who left by the back.
  3. i know. the switch is right there
  4. and your hand still says not yet.
  6. leave it on, then. but go inside.
  7. make tea. let the light keep watch
  8. without you standing in it.

old souls

she wrote: “i keep checking my phone for a message that isn’t coming.”

what’s inside

six small things, for hard days and ordinary ones.

  • todaya poem for what you’re going through, in plain and gentle words.
  • unsentsay what you never said to your mother, an ex, your younger self or someone you lost, and get it back as a poem.
  • the driftscroll through poems, each on its own paper with its own drawing.
  • your bookevery poem bound in your name, read page by page like a book.
  • widgetstoday’s poem on your home screen and your lock screen.
  • cardssend any poem to someone, as a card for their story.

made with care

your book stays on your phone. there are no accounts, no ads and no tracking.

your poems are written by claude, an ai made by anthropic, only after you say yes. say no, and they come from the old souls library.

on a very heavy day, old souls shows links to people who can help right now. it’s a companion for hard days, not a replacement for care from a professional.

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