Another poem written without prompts. Dealing with bad anxiety still so I wrote about it again. #poetry #poetrycommunity

Trying to practice gratitude for all my blessings, no matter how small! #vss365 #bouncing #emoetry #mind-blowing #poetry #gratitude

No prompts for this one. Had a rough morning so I wrote it out. #poetry #coping #mentalhealth

I hope we are all able to recover from the weights we carry! #emoetry #illicit #vss365 #enchantment #poetry #mentalhealth #recovery

these minuscule steps walk me away from the past that nearly killed me and my undiscovered self still yearning for more healing #vss365 #minuscule #tanka

A peaceful poem for this rainy Sunday morning! #vss365 #minuscule #emoetry #hatred #poetry #peace #rain

it's Sunday my love come lay your weary sky soft against mine on the altar for birds

A poem about healing! #emoetry #overit #vss365 #kiss #poetry #mentalhealth #healing

we rise early we tend, we clear, we clip pruning, harvesting squeezing sweet wine, vinegar we bottle both we rise © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/14/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (grapes) #tanka #bspp50

This is about my love of writing. Poetry, especially! #vss365 #lacuna #emoetry #glowing #poetry #amwriting

As I flip the colourful pages in the family album those lacunae those spaces of white ooh they bite they are the unclean bleached out blizzards of the past holding their cold space through the changing seasons #vss365 #lacuna #poetry

As evidenced by the title, this is about my near life-long struggle with hypochondria. #vss365 #dark #poetry

I recently started reading the Tao Te Ching so I suppose this is inspired by it. Trying to find inner peace! #vss365 #touch #poetry #tao #zen #peace

I will get out of this funk. Today is a new day to try! #vss365 #ache #emoetry #delighted #poetry #mentalhealth #positivity #recovery #pma

night gates left ajar milky way in cold pixels #pale insomniac #vss365 #DailyHaikuPrompt #Milky_Way #haiku #senryu #blueskypoets

From grateful.org

I'm gonna try to start practicing radical acceptance. Wish me luck! Also, today isn't my birthday. I just used it as a metaphor 😊 #vss365 #bones #emoetry #challenge #poetry #mentalhealth

these bones are weary that carry humanity we've walked a long time we just keep wandering but we won't find it out there #vss365 #bones #tanka

I'll fill my grave with a pile of bones blood of wars won and lost I came I saw I loved #vss365 #bones

My mindset has been frigging awful recently (though it's been a frequent problem for me my whole life.) I'm trying to undo the damage my own brain has done and is doing to me. It will take time and a lot of effort. So I must be patient with me. #vss365 #pale #emoetry #blissful #poetry #mentalhealth

#pale pastels the colours of spring of renewal, new life when the earth awakes from its long winter sleep and from somber grey bursts a rainbow of hues #vss365 #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

A peaceful write. Hope y'all enjoy it! #vss365 #blood #emoetry #afflicted #poetry #mentalhealth #recovery

I think a major root of my current anxieties is my social media and phone addiction. I need to curb it and I think writing this was a good first step. I HAD to write this. Poem in alt text! #emoetry #wistful #vss365 #wound #poetry

Continuing from yesterday's theme of anxiety, I've been beating myself up majorly recently for the mistakes I've been making while in panic/survival mode. #vss365 #lambent #emoetry #uncomfortable #poetry #anxiety

Another lengthy one (poem is in alt text.) This one is about my struggles with anxiety, which I've been dealing with since the mid 90s. #vss365 #ghosts #emoetry #terrified #poetry #anxiety

This is a pretty uplifting write about gratitude and trying to find the beautiful things in life, both of which I'm working on. I hope you are too! #vsa365 #pain #emoetry #rejected #poetry #mentalhealth #gratitude

flowers on his minds he plucked fine thought pods peeled and dried and wove shimmering lines indigo rhymes bloomed wrested from sorrow's well truth strands he braided calligraphic pen shivered from word stems soon faded brittle stanzas that quivered A poem, a rose under Calliope's nose

2.3.26 the #pain I endure comes less from culture wars and dissipated love or the malaise I feel in my tummy than from the minutes the hours rife with possibility I squander in the doomscrolling semiconsciousness of this our modern age #vss365

Strength in our numbers That we may much better face Whatever might come. #haikufeels #face #senryu #haiku

This is a welcoming account. 🏳️‍⚧️

how shadows wear me garlanding the mantle fashioning poppets and puppets found stones and feathers nuts, seeds and pieces of metal affixing them with arms, legs and faces from a box of broken doll parts i had collected feeling this world rejected me enough for me to reject me too #emoetry

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hope flitters on screen gargantuan pianist free fingers dancing #senryu #poetry

I'm trying my best to cope with all I'm dealing with right now. I didn't do the best yesterday. So I'm gonna try to do better today while giving myself grace. #vss365 #soul #emoetry #regale #poetry #mentalhealth

I've been going through A LOT recently so here's another attempt at letting it out. #vss365 #shadow #poetry

A somewhat redemptive write for me, imo. Trying to self care and give myself grace. #vss365 #soothe #emoetry #overemotional #poetry #mentalhealth

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. - Richard P. Feynman

It was in the soft, bewildered hours before dawn that the mourning rose up in him again, as patient and persistent as the tide against the old pier. Yet when the sun rose his sorrow would recede for light always brought hope to him. #bravewrite

#vss365 I fail Snap my fingers Leave no room To #soothe Bits of stone And sand Bind every word Every sound In a cacophony Of flashing lights Edges rough Rending thoughts From the inside Of my skull I ponder A second attempt A certain Plummet To an elephant In the room I will never Admit The end

Pain He comes in so many forms There’s no escaping him Mind Body Spirit Oh Spirit, When he cuts you at the knees Torso Neck Nothing left to give No, nothing left for Pain to take He drowns you In sorrow Floods you With self pity Pain Desperately call on Time Please, take Pain away #poetry #pain

Another pretty dark write. Hoping to get back to coziness soon. But I have to let some stuff out first. #vss365 #thrum #poetry

If it isn't obvious from the title, this is a poem for my younger self. Writing this was super cathartic for me. #emoetry #misunderstand #vss365 #obfuscate #poetry

Bonus poem! It's also the longest one I've written in a good while. The text on the image may be too small to read but it's in the alt text as well! #poetry

Feeling really awful today for a lot of reasons. #emoetry #loathed #vss365 #quiver #poetry

I'm still pretty rough today. Instead of writing about it yet again, I decided to treat myself and write about my favorite animal instead: the penguin! I know parts of it are probably cheesy. That's partly on purpose and also this is a new thing for me. Enjoy! #poetry #penguin #penguins #cozy

Been feeling awful both physically and mentally. So this poem is pretty dark. #emoetry #illicit #vss365 #cusp #poetry

On the #cusp of eternity What is past is done This moment shines the brightest The present is never gone Now is all that we are given Tomorrow a glimmer away We make our peace and find our rest In this wonderful gift of today #vss365

coffee and the laundry cycles changing the bedding for Brigid She cusps ushering in new things do we ache with songs of the loom when we wake, do eave birds sing too our lives while we scry the slippery black meniscus how underneath the veins of imagery the seas of white outside hides #vss365