All Saints Church, 1914 Watercolor by me #art #artwork #watercolor

#haiku you bring back flecks of rain on your eyelashes

Spot Coloring Todd Stoll © January 28th, 2026 Realme Q3 Pro 5G #Photography

#7syllablesentence #gloam birds hushed as the gloam deepened

"Matrioshka" was a hard poem to write. How can you absolve a lifetime of maternal trauma without abandoning either woman? I grew up in an intensely female space. For better or worse, it shaped me. This poem is less of a confession and more of a diagnosis of a godhead... #poem #poetry #writersky

To look at you In your Grace Kelly composure Every finger bearing a ring - Opal, blood jasper, pearl, sapphire Pewter, silver, glinting and winking Only the quiver Of your Chesterfield cigarette Frays the raiment of the ice queen skit #poem #poetry #vss365 quiver

"Human Resources" #poem by me #poetry #writerscommunity

I feel sorry for the Cassini probe It's scraped quartz Pointing empty north, nothing follows On the cusp Of incandescent destiny Cassini is faithful, it keeps pointing To the only home it's been built to know As it's flesh drips to molten Lethe #poem #poetry #vss365 cusp

. that brief week of warmth it wasn’t winter ending ye old weather ruse #vss365 #haiku

My poem "Cow Tool" is a satirical ode to capitalism as it relates to misogyny. Deadpan, efficient, and ultimately meaningless - the speaker is selling a product that is shaped like a woman, but whose interiority is completely dictated by what purpose she serves. #poem #poetry #writerscommunity

#FoxProse paper planes aflame plummeting wings shorn of feathers a flickering light not for any reason just emotions flaring in that nascent dark a magnet that has no sense of true north why surrender to timid lines of electricity i need to bite into live wire and feel again

The Bootleggers - Edward Hopper, 1925. Source : Currier Museum of Art, Manchester (New Hampshire) 🇺🇸

Venus in gilt silks Bearing her fire bosom In a lonely orb #poem #poetry #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt lonely

They build the pyre anonymously Even as the skin of Tlaloc Flays its rain and whips its brightness Into white and blue ribbons They are not afraid of tempests Only conscious of costs and timesheets The price of milk excites them For they can triple it By adding water #poem #poetry #emotry

The quiet snarl Of the electric wire Drunk on lightning Bolt through a heart flower Two halved cherries At the crossing Twin jeweled pools My favorite ruse To nothing #poem #poetry #vss365 ruse

The trees form a triptych Better than our family portraits Their green bodies More honest Only subtly unalike And the birds like nesting there

lonely darkness fade to black in hail of nine a hero's path #dailyhaikuprompt #lonely #haiku #writingprompt #blueskypoets

My two brain hemispheres arguing over whether to submit another poetry manuscript

I can finally smile in my ripples Swimming in sun-ovals All glisten and slippings Unmoored into nothing #poem #poetry #vss365 unmoored

Watercolor study on ducks #art #watercolor #painting

Sleeker than the river, the ducks in the inlet Black commas upon water A pinhole of gold for each eye #poem #poetry #micropoetry #emotry

Stuck inside this snow globe all winter. Help! #haiku #senryu #winter ❄️

rabbit prints indelible ink-- frozen blink #haiku

#haiku the sunbeam finds the orange leaves in the mist

Mole Furtive and furry, Hecate moon Raised and soft; oddly rodent Clean lines unspared by morbid glance Teddy bear velvet giving sheen To whatever is adding and adding beneath Eyeless and spotted, a perfect bore More a .22 than a 44. Stamped and buttoned on your skin #poem #poetry #horror

Quick sketch/color of Chicago Watercolor, ink pen, felt pen #art #watercolor

clear day the heart still bluer than the sky ever could #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

The longer twilight I call November purple Reaches into that infinity Just a twinge, an indigo Halo crowning the careless sun As Mars and Jupiter turn and turn #poem #poetry #writerscommunity

A big enough cat Better than a fireplace Eyes deep as embers #poem #poetry #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt fireplace

so sharp, yet brittle but with simple alchemy cunning tempered steel #haikufeels #brittle #senryu #poem #poetry

A starling Carrying a sprig of wool In her yellow-eternal beak Piked from the market of roadkill Sticks from the bonfire going brown Husk of corn Fallen from the sow's mouth Her bright, motley, mongrel nest The tiny blueish egg within - A sane ellipse Amongst the Second Law #vss365 #poem

Winter wool yielding To linen and silk - new clothes Flutter on hangers #poem #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt new clothes

Tap roots flirt with earth Growing purple with yearning Until snip! Turnip soup #poem #poetry #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt turnip/flirt

First Kiss Underneath Aries we kissed And the sky reached downwards, the clouds Soft and gray as puffling down Stilled the ram's charge, turned it to glow Of simple star and racing heart Felt clear through our winter coats #poem #poetry #writerscommunity

#haiku the witch has been in the tea cup again

Stress balls are an oxymoron Lifeless jelly until squeezed and torn Hurled in anger against cubicle walls Returning to shape but the psychic toll Remembered to its marshmallow core #poem #poetry #emotry lifeless

these walls between us and my gentle hands when i come tapping softly at your door ᝰ.🖋️ #poetrysky #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #writingcommunity

"RURAL BLUES" Original poem by me. Inspired by formative years growing up in a farming town #poem #poetry #writerscommunity

sudden momentum of air through a windpipe until nothing hums in your mouth’s cupola but a small bird’s hosanna #tanka #poetry #TankaThursday

Button full and milk Merry, the moon rise Makes grass gleam silver #poem #poetry #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt moon rise

How you slept! It frightened me Still as a facet on a solitaire I could stare and stare That geography of skin And flinted bone, moonstruck In its own conundrum You look so alone Oddly at peace You're not - I know #poem #poetry #writerscommunity #vss365 geography

The brightness of rice Like stucco or sand, curling Around pink salmon #poem #poetry #haiku

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku summer storm under the porch swing sharks circle

RED MAGICIAN (revised) This poem is an ode to menstruation, a stigmatized and often painful condition. I decided to use 1920's imagery as a motif for the body celebrating its design, in eternal reccurance, with dignity and whimsy #poem #poetry #freeverse #writerscommunity

crepuscular beings ambling suburban streets in full lunar glow #haiku #poem #poetry

In the Sun, Eyes Shut I can't think nor know my name Anymore than the sun can blink I feel sorry for it, lonely up there Trapped in the window tint, the pinprick Hemmed in by sills and angles Oh, your glare! O candor - All I can do is squeeze shut And let the red red red Fill me up #poem

If you're the head, the alpha and omega I'd laugh to death, I'd give myself a hernia I may yet learn to dance on you Alas I cut out your tongue, and deleted Our pictures. The drains smile clean - of you That clock ticks away, I pay it no mind For at least I'm rinsed of you #poem #poetry