Mutable memory shows a path that was never straight I trace it as it is now todayโs truth is a working draft tomorrow we will revise #poetry
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Mutable memory shows a path that was never straight I trace it as it is now todayโs truth is a working draft tomorrow we will revise #poetry
Constantly flowing Shaping the world around it Your emotions cut #Haiku #Awareness #Change #Growth #Poetry
Cat-like Alien queen Offering elixir During interludes Of libidinous Endeavor Promising immortality To wander space Forever Some kind Of half-shell Slurping Pan-galactic Explorer Searching for Someone to To call Venus #poetry #sci-fi #freeverse
Just words In the air On the wire Of the night Lips and keyboards Across miles Over oceans Meant well Or not Rather untidy Toys scattered Letter like Vowels very Helpful Meanings lost Feelings hurt Misunderstanding Probable Repairs iffy If at all Possible #poetry #vss #writercommunity
the memory hisses and pops with the cloudy connection of analog synapses confused with plaque where the data just stirs in place hoping to be read while the mindโs screen conspires to elude the sharp focus of some just yesterday when the the memory was last played #vss365 #elude #poetry
Finger painting On the floor So careful To get it right And not Make a mess Grades will be Given Creativity counts As does Well blended Palette Stress too much Cry a little Rub away a tear Young face Smeared with paint A veritable masterpiece That almost makes Grumpy teacher smile #poetry
Verily I say But really not very sure Creek side uncertain #poetry #haiku #vss
Thorns are wild On their own they do nothing they're just part of a plant But to others it's an inconvenience Be like a thorn today Be defensive Be protective Teach the people a lesson You are not leaves to be walked on You are a bed of thorns and you bite #WordPromptChallenge #Thorns #Poetry
Bicycle riding Stroke of pedal adventure Disturbing the wind #haiku #poetry
Moving towards Synthesis Albeit from Necessity Thesis abandoned After lunch Antithesis Can't stay For drinks Reruns of The Dialectic On TV Commercials Absent Of false Dichotomies #poetry
Words for shy paper Short pencil asking to write Lost on water's edge #haiku
Just because you trust the process doesn't mean the process trust you.
Twice thought Spoke aloud The doing Inevitable The master With no control Just a slave To random Musings Impulsive Only worse Elephant Running wild Untamable True to nature Discipline Not lost But chased Always away #poetry
Creativity drips like rain on cloudy minds, roots awaken slow. #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #BlueSkyPoetry #amwriting #writingCommunity #SkyPoet #SkyPoem #poetry #poem
Overheard conversation: "He's a good guy once you get to know him, but I don't know him yet".
Leaving Empty space Between Thoughts of Yesterday Making memories That don't Mash together Causing Confusion That emerge Without warning In grocery lines Or traffic Commingled Without elegance Creating nostalgia For a past That never was #poetry
Poem, a sweet salve A tincture; a remedy How to mend my soul #haikufeels #haiku #poetry #writingprompt #mend
great waves of harvest become the scream of stubble beginning ending #haiku #poetry #harvest #Godkillers #Scream #GreatWave
5-7-5 adds a discipline I lack, it would be difficult to abandon. Syllabic rhythm, taskmaster of the western world.
Life itself needs its scorched edgesโ like patient dumplings at Kamo Mitarashiโs teahouse, fragrant with sweet soy. #็ญๆญ #tanka #poetry #poesia #haikufeels ๐ japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/s...
When you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or not and for now it seems as though you are still summer still the high familiar endless summer yet with a glint of bronze in the chill mornings #Poetry #September #Fall merwinconservancy.org/poems/
What they Alluded to Was the Very thing That so keenly Eluded them Grasping for The ephemeral Yet afraid to Name it Hopes high Hand empty #poetry
"In the depths of knowing one might finally discover the thing that #eludes us", she said, "the truth that our very being is unable to acknowledge." He laughed because he thought the very same thing this morning trying to choose which socks to wear, "invariably so", he replied sincerely. #vss365
The #past, gone and the future not yet born but forming inside each of us in the present, our minds gestatating whatever our next steps may be. These steps, they carry the weight and form of previous generations, yet we can still shape them. They can have life of their own. #vss365 #poem
pre-dawn rain whispers _ like a soft hushed reminder _ a reassurance #haiku
You elude me. Like trying to touch the solidity of a waterfall, I push through, but to nothing, A wet residue of you, But not the real thing. #VSS365 #Elude #Poetry
Unasked questions In a drawer Just waiting Along with Pliers And things too afraid To be discarded Sitting by window Looking out With answers #poetry
Midday sun too hot Short reprieve desirable Patient under oak #haiku #haikufeels
Not very patient A walking meditation Path that doesn't last #haiku #haikufeels
Fall unsuspected Never one to be patient Leaf on the ground lands #haiku #haikufeels
Resilient Isnโt what I wished to be I wished for love A family Friends Joy Those to whom I could relate They came But with a price I also received heartbreak Loss Pain With them came resilience And surprisingly Gratitude #2WordPrompt
#emoetry The universe #obligated me To love you For all eternity Beyond the span Of the light Of the moon Even unto The stars And I Because I Don't like Being told What to do Told the universe To fuck off I'd love who I want When I want Even when I'm old.
So You broke me down To my very delicate rib cage But my heart flew To bloom elsewhere Tree of life Rooted lovers Find eachother #FireWriters35 @firewriters5.bsky.social #poetry
Love takes root in us, tender soil holds gentle dreams, hope sprouts toward the sun. #haiku #poetry #sprouts
We walk by the Koi pond, marvel at their beauty, their sunlit prison ... #dailyhaiku #haiku #dailypoetry #poetry
#BlueSkyRelay #Depth #Haiku Love and depression Expressed in terms of their depths Deepest emotions
Dancing to music That isn't there Unheard by ears That no longer Listen well On the grass Or in the Forest Under starshine Or the light Of sacred moon No missteps Possible Even falling down Choreographed By the night #poetry #vss
; jagged fragments of broken porcelain; imperfections accentuated; fractures healed; flaws laced with golden scars. #7syllablesentence #golden #kintsugi #micropoetry
ethereal mist wistfully exhales sorrow gasping your absence๐ฃ๐๐ฆ #dailyhaikuprompt #mist
They walked Anomalous Through crowds Going nowhere Though personally With intent Lovers waiting And whatnot Phone calls made Assignation Arranged But first coffee And a few pages From cheap And trashy novel Induce a mood And arrive Unreasonably Late #poetry #vss #writercommunity #love
Clock ticking away The sound of soon approaching Sun dial doesn't care #haiku
you can have spring with all her promise and prettinesses but give me fall whose long farewell is never long enough
counting the years with raindrops now half past daffodil season #vss365 #past
she's alone admiring butterflies instead of worrying about.....everything she's taking note of not noticing the time she's breathing in nature's magic and tasting the scent of crab apples felled by the wind she's thriving in a freeform sequel to her inhospitable #past #vss365 #writingcommunity
The clock ticks forward Never looking to the #past With cool autumn winds #haiku #vss365 #poetry #poem #micropoetry #writing
last kites are flying across an emptying sand autumn is at hand #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #laborday
They thought Perhaps Oversharing Their mask though Firmly in place Nouns verbs Adjectives and Adverbs Scattered Haphazardly On the floor Too much Left unsaid Feral mouth As of yet Still not seen Prepositions However Oddly absent #poetry #writercommunity
Dreamt of Lost car And cheap diners Wait person Who wouldn't Understand The order Grits too Foriegn A concept For northern Climes Why are you Even here They said In pursuit of Nixtamalized Corn #poetry #writercommunity
The sky above lingers The chill of autumn arrived Soon the wind might say #haiku #haikufeels
Dreamt of you too soon Your leaving not even cold Clouds haven't noticed #haiku #haikufeels
Have heart, my dear. It's just the changing of the tides, the weighted pause before the universe exhales. โค๏ธ
More than just one day With ephemeral flavor Temporarily #haiku #poetry
I want to walk a new path far away from here, & rest in an old cozy cafรฉ eating food Iโve never eaten before while listening to music I've never heard before. Watching all the people & knowing I could become a whole new me all while lingering there. s.b. #poetry
gracing my shadow, she lets light dry her wingsโฆ mending my muddied dreams #haiku #haikufeels (mend) #DailyHaikuPrompt (mud 8/30/25) #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity #photography #bloomscrolling #butterfly photo: mine
O beautiful soul Moonlit passages entice To mend tattered dreams #haikufeels / mend #prompt #.โโพโ: ฬฬ๊จ๏ธ๐กผเฃช ึดึถึธ
We take the pieces of all the lives we have lived, express them, and mend. #HaikuFeels - Mend #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #Poem
Are we not All just a little Cloud hidden They said Walking away Not looking back The forgetting Of their name Unexpected #poetry #vss #writercommunity
Apple from tree fell As if it didn't happen Feigning nonchalance Ground so Conveniently there To catch it #poetry #poem #apple
Written in my youth.
Thinking and Thinking And Thinking Day in and Never blinking Day out and Never sleeping One conclusion Then another Twice again Then some other Ranting raving Digging up Graves Burned down bridges Somehow remade Looking and longing Seeing and searching And thinking and Thinking and thinking
; what you perceive to be junk, others may perceive as jewels; your rubbish, their riches; your trash, their treasure; your waste, their wealth. everything has value; nothing is truly worthless - it's all about perspective. #7syllablesentence #treasure #micropoetry #poetry
"Everything I write is just a wordy-er Rorschach test. WTF is a question better asked of oneself in front of a mirror, fluorescently lit, nakedly so", he said. She wasn't buying it though, everyone knew that LED lighting was less harsh and significantly more soul revealing. #vss #writercommunity
Poly-sigh They said Not wanting To be too Wordy
Oftentimes The thing I am looking for Is not the thing That is looking For me Hiding in basement Until it goes away #poetry
Crystal ball Though broken Still entertaining What might Happen Or not Matters little The potential Of moments Full of promise Slip by Too rapidly To notice Outcomes forgotten What so Seemingly important Yesterday Tomorrow replaced With thoughts Somehow More trivial #poetry #vss #poems
First hint Of a season Yet to come Cool breeze And leaves Letting loose Just a few But soon Even more This little death Of the calendar So casual Slipping into Something Just a little More comfortable #poetry #vss #writercommunity
Hot chip and bold lies Our true love for us alone Let's go find a third #haiku #love #nonsense
Your love was a trap but I found the secret door and set myself free #haikufeels #trap #haiku #senryu #poetry
Red button alone Britches with green patch mended Shoes in woods walking #Haiku #haikufeels
When trying To write Shy words That ryme But still Possess Desired essence Pencil balks Paper looks Aghast Fingers drum A table That doesn't Understand #poetry #poem #Writercommunity
The altar - warm hues of blush and dawn, mercy and hope - frames a single lifetime built on loving, built on sacrifice. What use are #keen observations for the keening? What is sight to a sound that shapes the air into a blade? #Emoetry #prompt #keen #poem #poetry #grief #loss
Another night cloaks me in folds of ebon velvet and twinkling diamondsโ protection after the daily din. A warm, familiar blanket provides miniscule comfort for a #naked ever-searching soul. #Emoetry #prompt #naked #poem #poetry #writing
My goal is clear, Create true, lasting #bonds, That the world will not break. ๐ค โจ #WSS366 #DailyPrompt #ThreeLines #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #KnightsRadiant #Bondsmith #Oathsworn #WordsOfRadiance #StormlightArchive
Her skin soft as silk Her gaze heavy with magick Her hair a black flag #Gaze #haikufeels #haiku #3lines #senryu #micropoetry #blueskypoets #writingprompts #writingcommunity #blueskypoetry #skypoets
One tree quakes in a storm, Limbs crack in ice, Roots quivering, unconnected To a source of strength. A forest, a family of trees, Meshed roots brace each other, Creating fortitude, The storm is confronted. #poetry #vss365 #WordArt #micropoetry #Poetrycommunity
Dancing the morning Away beneath red maples Soft wet grass erect #haiku #micropoetry
; they gazed at the beach from the clifftop above; stood in the shade amidst dappled shadows cast by the beech trees around them; admired the ocean as it sparkled in the sunlight. #7syllablesentence #beach #beech #micropoetry
I gave up on Instagram! Here is a quilt I made for the 150th anniversary of the Morse Institute Library in Natick, MA with 150 different fabrics. #quilting #libraries #bostonmqg
this featherlight touch, my fingertip along those tiny marks, an intricate constellation, the perfect backdrop, your glistening skin begging to be traced. #VSS365 #prompt #CONSTELLATION #.โโพโ: ฬฬ๊จ๏ธ๐กผเฃช ึดึถึธ
Described as Taciturn As if words Spoken Might somehow Mean more Navigating A world of Ignored noise Observing The real language Of bodies Eyes and eyebrows Telling stories About emotions Still tangled In the subconscious Casting about In search of Tacit approval #poetry #vss #writercommunity
Confusion showing Perplexion in mirror spied Might have another #haiku
Moving toward And away From destinations Unknown None the wiser For having been But all the same Grateful Heart such A lonely traveler In search of Somewhere Or someone Worth departing Rearview mirror Nostalgia Not looking back At all #poetry #vss #travel
Pockets void Of jingle Water fountain Thirst quenched Strategically Dusk on every Horizon Encroaching night Just enough Till names fade Along with fear And acquiescence Displaces Rejection Moonlight and Sad eyed stars Present but with Semi-plausible Deniability #poetry #vss
In a starring role A #constellation of geese My heart, too, takes flight (My ๐ธ) #vss365 #Haiku #HaikuSaturday
'Variations of red' crimson clouds crossing the river where pine trees stand chill riding the waves of eternity carried by the scent of fading summer go with the swallows fade to silence embrace autumn's silver balm #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #dailyhaikuprompt (crimson)
Waking to the Deconstruction Of belief Realizing the day Is limitless Definition And assignments Best subdued Questing for Potential But wary of An abundance 'Enough' a word Perfectly adequate To devour The territory Old maps Purposely lost #poetry
They smiled kindly but Their gaze said no vacancy Whereabouts unknown #haiku #haikufeels #micropoetry #zen
Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire, UK purpose still unknown ancient and immutable standing stones circle #haikuchallenge #haiku #micropoetry #poetry
in verdant fields of 4-leafed clovers I search for horseshoes #DailyHaikuPrompt (clover) #senryu #poetry
#blueskyrelay You were #chosen Out of everyone On earth To guard My heart My mind My soul As if they Were yours As if you could Pluck a single star And nourish it Into a solar system Giving it power To transform The very essence Of life Kiss it gently Hold it wisely Give it love
nova stellae bright new constellation in our dark skies we peer at her talking dust and gases nebulae while in our hearts we give her secret names wishing our future changed #ScifaikuSaturday (nova) #vss365 (constellation) #whistpr (peer)
One tiny dot in a night sky a soliloquy that speaks to me a small introduction to the dark when the constellations shine one shape at a time a magic play ensemble in a summer sky theatric company as the fire dies #vss365 #constellation #poetry
Sitting at the bar Studying the rings Left behind A record of Past celebrations Tribulations Lamentations A constellation of Ghosts of drinks past Remnants of a galaxy Of hopeful fun-seekers I mutter these musings To the bartender He takes my keys And calls me a ride home #vss365 #constellation
Early morning rise Didn't really mean to Dreams left abandoned #haiku #vss #micropoetry
Time to cast Shadowy spells Beyond the minutes Upon the clock Deftly so Into the void Of tomorrow And beyond Only brooms For sweeping Needed now Tidy up the past Curtains part Old calendars burn Lost but on the way #poetry #vss #writingcommunity
flannel covered arms reaching up, unforbiddenโ ripe apples abound ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ #haiku #haikusaturday #nature #poetry #fall
They looked Toward or A little past Never directly In eyes That might be Looking Anything said Vague and In passing Just a stranger Courteous Yet distant Everyone robbed Mercilessly Of raw materials For poems That might be Written tomorrow #poetry #vss #writerscommunity
On the road this misty morning heading to my โmaternal family reunionโ. You cannot really displace your roots. Roots grow on for ages springing new life creating branches where love is tended and history shared. Born are the bravest who stay attached to their roots. s.b. #poetry
