~ You burned through the forest grove, where spring moaned with gusto—raw, longing, wild Your smile slipped between trees, or teased from the full moon’s scattered pearls Your gaze flared through blue leaves, and a pink curl—bold—dared to echo the flush of your untamed, blushing cheeks ~ 𝓩𝓪𝔂𝓷𝓪𝓫

"Anyone who ever let me in his body or arms I still feel grateful to. That's why so many of my friends are old lovers, I suppose. And that includes, these days, dying and dead friends as well, to whom the flesh, my flesh, still connects me." Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, 1988

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bee-puzzled roses in your peach deeps and harbours always afternoon

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#Strait My head and my heart Are prone, are prone As I am - to disagree And me afloat In a fragile boat Between these raging seas Am blown, am swept Salt burned and wrecked Pray set my spirit free To spend my days On gentler waves Content in my totality #vss365

For reasons which May never become clear I have lived from regret to regret Burning blue occupants of yet Unnamed and uncharted constellations That speak in the voices of the dead And of the yet unborn In them something beckons and I am left Stargazing with ghosts #poem #poetry

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at the end of the path the overpowering scent of flowers on a thorn bush #Haiku by Yosa Buson (1716-1783) (from book Classic Haiku, Tom Lowenstein, 2007) #poetry

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[Jotted on the score card of a 1972 Met's game] appeal to authority: the moon is on your side and frankly, i trust her [Slipped into the pocket of a flannel shirt with a note that smells faintly of rain] anecdotal evidence: someone once loved someone in this shirt- it could happen again #renku

#sunbeam Here at childhoods end Still I find I can feign and pretend That the sky, deftly lit Can stir my heart yet And the smile on my face Hardly offers a hint Of the weight in my soul That falls Like a sunbeam On nothing at all #vss365

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when the shores gave her right form her river ran to the ocean a flock of ravens helped her mark what was closest & drink from what was farthest when dusk leaned in instead of turning away she drew light from purple edges rooting time into #vision of the journey itself #vss365 #poetry 📸 N. Taylor

the poppy chooses to blaze red against the gloom vision without flame at the edge of night she waits quiet in her certainty #vss365 #vision #NaTankaMo #choice #MayTanka #tanka #poetry #nature

A faded plastic statue of the Virgin Mary taped to the dashboard of his green El Dorado Alligator takes pains to make sure his satin shirt doesn't wrinkle his oil soaked boots against the pedal he progresses against all measure and He wanders outside the realm "Of Saturn Devouring His Son" By Goya

satin drapes shelter a half-light rests in the room whispers curl like smoke the clock has forgotten time heat pooling beneath the skin #tankaThursday #shelter #tanka #blueskypoets

sleep on a journey then you will understand my poem autumn winds #haiku poems of Matsuo Basho between 1684-1688 translator: Jane Reichhold #poetry

Love is like an echo. You can hear it. At times, you can feel it. but can't grasp onto it. As you pour your heart out to be set on fire within. Only to be left with ambers in the dark. #poetry

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unpopular opinion maybe but posting online is writing. It’s not marketing. It’s not strategy. It’s literature in public.

#Gloucester I had a lot of fun writing this, and I hope you'll enjoy this #cheese-#race #mystery #adventure, set in #TheCotswolds www.amazon.co.uk/Housie-Mousi... #mum #middlegrade #actionadventure

~ I moan your name in the glitch between wild sighs, a brass-laced fire branding my starving lips. I hunt the shimmer of your shadow, fingers ripping time’s velvet. Each syllable—a snowy rose, a brutal bloom of strength, devoured again and again until silence screams for mercy ~ 𝓩𝓪𝔂𝓷𝓪𝓫

Lithe fingers hold tight A slender swan neck throbbing A quick snap, no fight #haikuhorrorprompt #vsshorror

How corrupt are the planets in their orbit Rotating in strange ellipses Gossiping amongst themselves Celestial washwomen about The earth's unrequited love for its moon Sunrise and sunset A parlor trick performed by Titans #poem #poetry #POEMS

night watch on a winter ship, the stars tangled in the frozen rigging — M. Kei #tanka #5lines #MayTanka #NaTankaMo tangled #poetry

#vss365 #Glitch

the leafshadowed lane still glossy with blackbird song the sweetness of rain

the long shadows of another bright dawn cast out the long night #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

My voice Guides Listen Follow A haze Of me Is all that's seen A ripple In time A thought Upon the horizon A sky Without a cloud I bring To you Warmth Light Kisses galore And where we lay Looking Into each other's eyes Where only A single Glint We see

~ Chestnut tree, my heart aflame—each leaf a whispered courage. Nudibranch soul, silken, bare, I curl within your branches, reborn in longing. Your golden voice, a hush that undresses autumn, brushes the hollow. O wild-winged muse, why does my being thirst so deeply for your storm-lit sky?

#nudibranch alone #honest being in greenish hush sea stone holds its place tentacles in meek desire something always out of reach #vss365 #NaTankaMo #tanka #blueskypoets 📸 Brian Mayes via Flickr

Bukowski would tell me "your poems are shit, you should lease your labor to the work houses where you might make something honest of yourself surrounded by sparks, molten ore, and the sonnets of miserable soot faced men" I put a nail in the crucifix to hang over my bed. #poem

foretold by an oracle perhaps you are my destiny you who steers my fire making me want it or are you just a myth make-belief of desire like a unicorn or perhaps you are my #narwhal once a fairytale but now you're real #vss365 #poetry

- our love has stilled like an endless ice sea cold and barren we are abandoned we are starved of comfort too afraid to be alone i pray to the sun that never warms yet never sets to break through this frozen heart send a narwhal to shatter what’s drowned within me - #poetry #vss365 #poetrysky

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Narwhal Nebulous The tides I sail Posing as a horn Toothed whale Turning circles Slowly lead Back to a point Above my head Moonlight Do not condescend To comfort me My lonely friend Nor touch the depths Where ever still On horn pierced fish I eat my fill #vss365

dislodged memories a petal's perfumed tickle espaliered echoes - ❖ - honed to the wind slicing thru its defiance a falcon strikes - ❖ - i wash clean my feet because the waiting grave denies my inherent filth #dailyhaikuprompt [tickle] #haikuchallenge [hone] #inkmine #wash #haiku #writingprompt

empty chapel- a wasp tapping at the stained glass #poetry #haiku

sun on lotus leaves marrow of meditation held in a chalice #DailyHaikuPrompt #leaves #vss365 #marrow #haiku #blueskypoets #nature

Today's Featured Poem: "Visitation" by @kellyrosehoffer.bsky.social, from UNDERSHORE, published by @lightscatterpress.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/visitat...

- the coffee has gone cold in my mug. how long have i been sitting here? listening to the sea. empty and shivering - a fog choking the coastline with silence like death imbued in the very marrow of my being, tracing your name in the dew. - #vss365 #poetry #poetrysky #read

In the hallway of a broken house She finds herself Out of desire for what With an abundance of caution Perhaps She could know this thing If nothing else There is peace on the other side A pool of rain As deep and wide as the ocean Scarcity everywhere in volumes #poem #POEMS

Murmured dialogue… Aquarium’s anglerfish lie. The *adventure happy* marveled & raved at nature’s creativity. #tanka #poem #poetry #prompt #writesky #skypoets #vssdaily #lie #poetrylovers #blueskypoets #vss365 #anglerfish #vsspoem #dialogue #blueskyrelay #creativity #2wordprompt #happy #adventure

fritillary sounds like feeling butterflies #DailyHaikuPrompt (🦋)

sap drips down old bark echoes glide from air to leaves the tree stands immune #haikuchallenge #echo #vss365 #immunity #haiku #poetry

wind poet the brush of seasons on my shoulders

- in a faraway vale Rhiannon passed by an orchard blooms sealed in her wake now each Spring the trees flower too early as if recalling her breath still no fruit but my longing ripens to glimpse her again spellbound here my new home and in naming it hiraeth fades - #vss365 #poetry #poetrysky