It's said Human greed Is infinite That the meaning Of resistance Is the calling Of fools But the power Of the collective Is not beyond Comprehending We aren't dealing With Epics Like edges of space Or Gods above We are dealing With groups Whose only power Is the belief Of others In power itself

The world moves on Through the day to day Flush Regardless of the pain Each migraine Still a plus So easy to forget My suffering is still life And life, Life is worth living. And even at my worst I can still make art.

I am still alive, though still unwell, I'll be having my gallbladder removed by the end of the month. Hopefully I'll start feeling like myself again after that.

Our Clock Winds Down In the view of a world Seen upside down Why do we not fear our cage? If my work is to sell My self-built shell What can I have left but rage? To toil and till These fields that we fill Yet nothing is left but our name. #poetry

Voice in my head Sounds just like mine Convinced these walls Are my own design. Said I could live Without a care Still walk through halls With a distant stare. Patterns build A rising fear That what was far Is always near Another quilt To hide beneath Thoughts in tar So I never see- #poetry

Irreducibly Human To be human is to be you Within the solipsistic mind No matter the scars The missing bits And the unending agony of surviving incomplete The humanity remains. If we must, truly, clamp the definition, To be human is to wake #poetry

Persist, preserve, predict, persuade. Through fear, through violence, through doubt, through ignorance. Without, without, without, without. #poetry

If one takes your peace then another can give back here, you are safe now #senryu

Everything you look at is a tree There are always deeper layers to what may be This effervescent rainbow of things to see Reflects my evershifting cloud of ways to be #poetry

The fog rolls in As the kaleidoscope screams The third creature today To try to find its name. With warping flesh On tired stone We wriggle free Of binding bone The stars gaze in Our seams gaze out As statues stagnate In the between #poetry

I am shaded Ever jaded But still I shine A brighter hue Been debated Fully hated Always tried But never true My self left dangled Find an angle To force this light To channel through #poetry

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Words from Me to You Live well Be happy Give hell To those Who'd control you. Don't dwell Stay sappy Break shells Protect Those around you. #poetry

First of my profane word cloud art series is done: "Fuck" Ink on 10×8 canvas panel #Art #Fuck #WordArt #WordCloudArt

Death Isn't Mundane Renowned as progress This endless race As a thousand clocks Will watch your face Value given Is mechanical praise And power held By a man who plays With the lives of many A death of overwork Is a horror most foul The body is a temple Not your shareholder's trowel. #poetry

Digital babies reap the field of lives As politicians spread their happiest lies What use is our flesh in mechanical eyes? Are our wars still so coarse that we'd kill for a prize? I pray for a world where no robot needs be traumatized Yet the gods we build will still carry our wounds. #poetry

There are eyes in eyes Looking for the crown And eyes in our lies Watching every sound We've put eyes in the skies But they're looking down And yet these eyes on the prize Are showing nothing found #poetry

I live on In hopes and dreams Watching the youngest son Give the quietest squee On the beauty found In commonest scene This world, full of sound Beyond the mightiest mean. #poetry (Winter depression got me.)

And so the score is 3 to none If this were war, then he'd have won But make it known no job is done 'Fore life returns to calm and fun. Ten years is not too late For the gentle man's revenge. #poetry #shower_thoughts

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone for how incredibly supportive you've been!! 💖 I'm excited to finally be able to release this chapbook I put together as a gift to you. A thank you gift to the #poetrycommunity, all the poets and prompters. Please read alt text for more info.

Dissociating Disassociating every thought From each new pain And reasoned fear. I know it's not enough There's so much more Than what we hear But it'll never be enough And all I can do In the end Is remember how to steer. #poetry

I just want to see Many more lives being lived But there's so much hate #poetry #haiku

#poetry #protest

Minneapolis It is time To show the light It is time To stand and fight It is time You know your rights It is time To see their plight It is time We know what's right #poetry #protest

This week’s episode is slightly delayed due to technical difficulties (David’s laptop crashed). Watch for it this weekend on your podcast app or at inthreepoems.com. Hanna Eve Levy is our featured guest with her poem “The Day a Poet is Murdered by ICE.” #poetry #podcast #poet #nokings #forgood

If I must hold a single light On twisting roads in corrupt states An evening lost to downing pints Everyone knows now "what is right" And every cornered dog will bite #poetry

Faces left behind, Remembering names, Intimate in kind, Embers of flames, Nostalgic wishes, Dancing swishes, Supersoaker drinking games. #AcrosticJanuary #Friends #acrosticpoem #writing #writingcommunity @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

We Know Which Script They Steal They've called themselves our kings Now tell us how to feel It's not just time to sing They've put us on a wheel Now the system's sting Has gotten much too real We've got to do a thing Now that they've shown their steel #protest #poetry

We Know Which Script They Steal They've called themselves our kings Now tell us how to feel It's not just time to sing They've put us on a wheel Now the system's sting Has gotten much too real We've got to do a thing Now that they've shown their steel #protest #poetry

Happy New Year!! I'm very excited to announce that the Aliases ezine is now available! This beautiful zine is full of old poems and things I recovered from deletion to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of my Aliases collection. Hope it inspires! 💖 #writersky #poetry ko-fi.com/s/2c776bb9c6

Numbers are numbers And meaning is meaning Will the meaning not slumber As I number my keening? Embedded in singing One song for my fame I do not ask for the seeming Imposter's reframe Nor the fostering build Of the quarterly host And the goldeny child As he who posts most (updated) #poetry

From my crew to yours, happy new year 💙

Numbers are numbers And meaning is meaning If I number the meanings Is there any more meaning? Embedded in singing One song for my fame I do not ask for the seeming Imposter's reframe Nor the fostering build Of the quarterly host And the goldeny child As he who posts most #poetry

How does one broadcast joy? There are no words For the gentle happiness I feel While enjoying a thoughtless hobby. #poetry

#SocialCredit #poetry @karmicmishap.bsky.social there's so much more to say on this one but this is what my mind is set with rn 😭

#2wordprompt Work is not The #solution To poverty Poor health Or any of the multitude Of problems Society frowns upon We've been sold A lie That making money Is the only thing That counts That only the wealthy Are good And the rest Are just #durable Goods to be used Until they break

A rather belated #poem for #faesense #poetry #prompt response for the word #toll.... but I think it was worth it? It's a #villanelle and part of my #nightmare series/future #zine of doom/joy. Enjoy the spooky spicy fun times! 🤗

Everything I say Is said to be remembered While pieces of me fray I give this peace a tether And so I hope I stay Come calm or wildest weather A subtle, quiet wind Holding us together #poetry

The days are #uncertain, The times come and go When comes final curtain I'll remember your show The ways of your beauty As you swayed to and fro Not the saddening tantrum that caused you to go. #poetry

Cultivating Colour Poem in #alt-text #poetry #poetrycommunity *title provided by @boomshockalocka.bsky.social

I paid the #toll at Heaven’s gate, a river of Lost stories, regrets Washed away under the sun The unicorns sang and danced. #haiku #tanka #poem #poetry #writingcommunity

There's always a #toll to pay Nothing's free but what we say And if you stay unwary Even that will be taken away A "necessary" casualty Of a battle so far away. Don't let a 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙 steal your voice #faesense #poetry