oh, my darling you are glass that thinks it is only sand but the fire of this dire place transformed you and now you are a transmuting of light and other clarities #poetry

'Ante Cantum' You see all things - or think that you do. Perhaps your sight is the only lens your life allows. And those of us unbound by that prism step outside and make our own views. A resplendent tapestry, multifaceted passions, deeply true to our own vibe. 1/7

New Zine - beta - Free Daydreams and nightmares daveashley.co.uk/wp-content/u... #poetry #writing

Like a recalcitrant child, this poem refused to conform, remaining beautifully messy and stubborn. In the end, I let it be, rhythm/quatrains be damned. Ty to @arliden.bsky.social, @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social for your help - it takes a village to raise a poet. 🤗 🫶 ⚔️

'Veritas' Does truth‑telling tell truths of a telltale heart? Which version holds - yours, mine, ours, or theirs? So many choices. Truth exhales soft geometry, Truth's a flexible notion formed by our need. Truth will ask the most uncomfortable dare; perceiving a piercing of our reality. 1/4

#moldable #emoetry #logpile #wildwalkprompt #sonnet #poem #mentalhealth #depression

For a wound to be tended, it first needs to be witnessed. Here, we bleed poetry — not only to heal ourselves, but in hopes that our words might also soothe others. May we find gratitude for pain that was able to transform through art, laughter, and wisdom. #ThankfulThursday

#poetry I do crave connection I care about others I'm not some collection Of anxieties I smother Standing means sailing This sea, my own captain But the stranding is ancient & the ship long abandoned All alone on an island My old solipsist dream Morphs into a nightmare So grotesque I could scream

my heart would break if we drifted away, silently a little at a time until we were once again strangers #poetry #fear #friendship

@PoetsOfDoom #Sea #Blankverse #poem @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social

the first time I lied, breaking his heart felt safer than giving him mine #lied #RetroArtPrompt #haiku #poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #WritersOfBluesky

Sometimes the poems I write aren’t the ones I intend to write.

A #Solseed Joint “A prompt, a pulse, a purpose of the soul —to water a seed. #ArtAsResistance #ARW-RAW

#BedroomEyesPrompt #BewitchedByDandelions #triolet #poem #writing #writingcommunity @oldsoulprose.bsky.social @knickersnpearls.bsky.social

whence I sleep oft I dream of a drink of love and youth through the looking glass only to awaken to my days of mere breath and slowed aging #wildwalkprompt #cassiopeian #vssmagic #bedroomeyes #poetry

Great collaboration with @jenthorne.bsky.social So far no murders, only poetry! #litfest #poem

Captæ in laqueo We women, caught as we are beneath an Euripidic, watching glass, Lalia's sweet lyricism, threads our cadence; a siren hymn that salts our unbound defence, drawing our private dreams into their morass. For our truth is never ours: 1/7

@petercbradbury.bsky.social Just wanted to send you ❤️& support. No reply is needed, just wanted to reach out & keep you in my thoughts. 🫶

there was a world you and I were co-authors love was the cement in our foundation we sent each other are fleeting thoughts and constructed it all piece by piece I breathed in the sky and you gave me the earth time was a winding and forever road we walked we floated we rested and did it all #vss365

#water #poem #madrigal #poem #Cassiopeian

#Cassiopeian #Water #Poetry

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'Perhaps' Perhaps, in a world of potentiality, warm tide pools glisten in your eyes. A small word. One tongue of light, tastes of risky velvet - that can open a door or shut it tight. How can you believe when all you see is pain? A bruised world with shadows lying in wait. 1/5

oh, my darling your every breath is a poem to me

oh, my darling the way want plays like shadows across the soft plane of your cheek #poetry

Total Eclipse of the Heart Regrets - I cherish a few sprinkled in sunlight scattered as mornings' dew. A prismatic display of my hearts' disarray, rainbow shards courting mine eyes. An azure field bearing the repose of all that once was, but now shall never be. 1/3

A #poem for #poetry #madrigal #love

#PoetsOfDoom #Daydream #triolet @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

coins clinking in cup just a little change for her make a difference #senryu #poetry

Keep that passion running I feel something stirring in my heart Some days I feel your distance So many ways to read a kiss #AcrosticApril #kiss #poetry #writing #love @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

"Love is the sea of non-existence, where the ego drowns and the spirit is born." — RUMI 💙

'Gentle sway' Waltzing upon serene sunbeams, you unravel the edges of my day. Small messages alight, downy soft, holding steady, soft breaths that stitch the breach. I see the weight of you: boldly precise, charting promises of hopeful harbor, should courage remain resolute. 1/5

I let myself not matter for too long I don't have any regrets love is always worth a little living for the person who takes so much space in your heart I've just been alone for too long and I need to be defiant I know you, too are alone in your own way I'm sorry I can't change that #poetry

We have art so that we shall not die of reality. ~Friedrich Nietzsche #Photography #Foto #Stone #PhotographersOfBluesky #StreetPhotography #Museum #RinglingMuseum #Monochrome #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #UrbanPhotography #Urban #imageandverse #Architecture #LightAndShadow #blueskyartshow

Shadowdance Moonlight threads a ravenly diamond night. Within the candelabrum’s hush, folding as tissue, we melt, hemmed against the light's edge, shoulder upon shoulder, with scant exhale. Your mouth, secretly magnetic, at my ear, pulsing syllables soft as silk, purposefully pale. 1/6

“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.” — RUMI 💙

'Temporalis' Reality bends, a trick of light, a fleeting play, an errant quark, quirks up not down, softly dancing away the night. bricks and mortar sway, fragile constructs of life, shift with precarious grace; what was solid now drifting to grey. onto what, do we hold? - do we hold? 1/3

The shore could forget the waves were the seas to drain away the dawn could lose sight of the light if the sun declined to shine & clouds might not miss the rain if ever a long drought came But no matter, the passing time or anything that might arise I could never forget your eyes. #poem #poetry

There is no free will we'll never trace each other you're obsidian #haiku

Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 2023. It’s a dark and rainy day in Portland, Oregon, and I felt the need for some color in my life. I think this fits the bill. #Photography #Architecture #Interior #Paris #France 📷

midnight embers dancing on #pale skin reaching for your hand yearning to intwine before the fire dies lines crossed breath shared our divine experiment a race against the morning #vss365 #pennedreveries #poetry