I had a basic idea for the opening line of this poem and just went from there. I will say it's more surreal them my usual stuff (which I guess is saying something) and I kinda dig it, tbh. #poetry #vss365 #headwind #writer #writers #writing

I haven't written a memory or slice-of-life poem in quite awhile. I forgot how much I enjoy them! #poetry #vss365 #depart #writer #writing #writers

#poetry #writing #writers

Some people (myself included) tend to romanticize their mental illness. I feel it's extremely unhealthy and can prevent coping. We deserve the world! #poetry #vss365 #patient #writing #writer #writers

This is about the health issues I've been facing, both physically and mentally. I'm not looking for sympathy or advice. Only catharsis. Thank you ❤️ #poetry #vss365 #unabashed

A cathartic write #poetry #writing #writer #writers

#writer #authors #indieauthor #writingtips #aspiringauthor #indiebook

I'm trying to learn to #embrace myself and life as a whole so neither will destroy me. #poetry #vss365 #writing #writers #writer

A #rose lies between a killer's teeth, smelling of a #jovial birth. #poetry #vss465 #emoetry #haiku #senryu

To #frolic in waves, the mind blurs into static then clears to a creek. #vss365 #poetry #senryu #haiku #writers

Hope is #defiance #poetry #vss365

#defiance in words quite pliable in actions nut shell of the now #vss365 #haiku

Be here daily, I remind myself A defiant command amongst scattered shards of the past #vss365 #Defiant #Anxiety

- after green, there was only gray. clouds pressed birds from the sky to collect and die among the cinder fields, songless and dry. trees stripped bare, all blanched branch and brokenness, save for the small defiance of one leaf, seeking the light once more. - #poetry #vss365

Anesthestized words veil a void deep as the cracks in a thinning heart. #poetry #haiku #senryu

A cold empty chair
Holds more stories than the room
Ever dared to tell #dailyhaikuprompt (cold) #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #haiku

I was hating this poem as I was writing it lol. But as I edited it and finished it, I grew to like it. I think the message is important, anyway. Hope you like it and have a wonderful day! #vss365 #supercilous #poetry

Coated in pollen Velvet, sleepy bee stumbles Into winged action. #BSPP55 #PollenVelvet #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

“Redemption” I have seen evil in a temple preach of doom, a devout kneeling in Satan’s cove. Don’t lose yourself so deep within that you end up ghosting your own soul. Redemption is a brutal road, but atonement, sometimes, rides another road. ~rev #writingcommunity #dark #poetry #motorcycles

no worthy words today my mind is full of #moths blurred and furred, chaotic coherency is lost all thoughts flail aflutter and falter in the waning light like fragile wings singed by flame unable to take flight. #Thingstowriteabout #poem #poetry #writing #brain_fog

#vss365 a moth circling a candle, trembling with #appraisal, sensing the thin border between light and disaster

I placed the pen behind my right ear mid-poem and was reminded of my Dad who also placed his own pen behind his right ear when he was alive mid DIY death seems a cold business until you realise it's also release #poetry

pasture after storms every blade stands back up green hope has many legs #dailyhaikuprompt #Pasture #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

green velvet hilltop crow tells me the old wildwoods reached up to the sky #DailyHaikuPrompt (pasture) #ThingsToWriteAbout (reach)

(I was challenged by a friend on Substack to write a 7-5-7 poem!) I force the void from my eyes and finally see the puddles for the rain drops. #poetry

when Saint George said a poet in love is a dangerous thing a wonderful thing did he appraise one such as a slayer of dragons wind rider of rain bride and broom groom to earth berserk fires unquenchable pocketed ashes and posies circles drawn down triangles squared around #vss365 #emoetry

"Bear Trap" Depression is a bear trap and I am the wounded animal trapped in its callous teeth, lashing out at the hands that try to set me free because I perceive they're trying to pet my fur despite the blood in my mouth and the rusted nails in my eyes. #poetry

I take another gulp of anhedonia on the rocks but it's drinking me under the moon. The world will spin on regardless of how my jaw may clench, regardless of the way my fist pounds against the florid afterbirth and comes away riddled with purple excuses but no reason. #vss365 #poetry

anguished, defiant, resilient unwavering, unapologetic weaponizing pain turning life’s traumas into bold #florid masterpiece a shattered body an indomitable spirit her deepest vulnerabilities turned into enduring symbolic expressions of inner poetry of feminine strength the essential Frida #vss365

- we used to dress our wounds with wildflowers i thought it was healing when injuries could look so pretty you coaxed me to breathe deeper, trust the fragrance, but by morning, infection had set in scented and dank the bandages had bloomed too florid to ignore - #poetry #vss365

The Reality of a Mermaid She took refuge in the cool sway of ocean Away from his heated lies and florid excuses Swam so far out that she was able to sing again #vss365

I didn't want to write a poem this bleak this afternoon. I wanted to work on one of my projects. But I'm dealing with some intense feelings and had to get them out in a productive way. It will be okay. #emoetry #poetry

I'm not the greatest at veiling my emotions, especially when things are rough. #vss365 #emoetry #poetry

flea on verdict’s lip black spark on white flame jumps from the yellow heart of an oleander sun a speck of rebellion against the furniture of air landing on the moon’s pale cheek to whisper wake up the night is still young and full of small hungers #vss365 #photography #nature

As the flea contains within its ink-drop gut the whole red testament of borrowed blood, so did that boy receive the world unedited; each sparrow-note# unlaced to fifty silks, the rain arriving in its forty faces, the moth’s wing signing secrets through the dark, ... #vss365

#vss365 #villian

#vss365 #PulpFictionCabbie This city breeds desperation the way a stray dog breeds #fleas, and that desperation hangs in the air, thick enough to choke on.

#vss365 Love dies. Love is the victim Who is the #villain? “Not me.” “Not me!“

I play the reluctant hero in this fragmented story and I cannot tell if the villain is made of glass or wallpaper. All I can do is persist because life is dependent on the fissures inside itself. #emoetry #reluctant #vss365 #villain #poetry #mentalhealth

what eyes never need what ears do without nose knows true scents do bind us thread spun fibers reaches, aches and awe stars fall every night as we turn towards morning turn towards what story we can birth without reluctance Life loves festivals of sacrifices our roots and reaches #emoetry

Even trees speak, if you know their language. Withering leaves means I need rain. Bent branches say I've craned my neck for a speck of your sun light. But some only see the browning, the broken, a new #villain in your garden of eden. #vss365

A rare political-esque write from me. I didn't intend for it to be political when I started on it but I suppose the muse works in mysterious ways lol. #vss365 #pull #poetry #writing #creativewriting

Well, I find myself in another jail cell. When will they learn that confinement leads to inspiration? As they #pull the door shut, the ghosts of the meanest streets compete for space on my blank sheet. My pencil etching a way through darkness into maginary light for the long night. #vss365

I grieve for who I could have been if the intestines from a nameless martyr didn't wrap around my neck before I had the chance to discover my voice in the playground's lurch towards a vague will and testament. #vss365 #lurch #poetry

I think this one could be about digging deep and discovering the why behind our neuroses. #vss365 #defenestrate #poetry #mentalhealth #writing

. this oak in full flush will like me in winter stand defenestrated #vss365 #haiku

The iconoclastic urge to break everything that aches of you, throw away the sunrise, #defenestrate the stars, rip the water from my eyes, make me blind, make me blind, & I'd only read you in braille. #vss365