Crawls I stand on the bottom step I watch my shadow Crawl across your door I always remember The way to your home Never what I want to say A half made fist Stalled before the knock And the shadow creeps Further along your door I wondered why I know how I drop my hand to my side Turn to leave And see your curtains move Just a little

#Emoetry #perplexed
#poetry #skywriter
#blueskypoet

It would have been different, if it wasn't always the same.
Here is a poem...

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Damn good!

Fair point! Well done as always. Thank you for sharing

1st month's free Unit 51 Boxes and bins, Full of 'me' .. Me when I was ..or needed .. The things in them Before I put them away. Loving that 'me' just enough to keep But not enough to see anymore. Plastic name tags, All 'me' in bulk fonts, When minimum wage, Got maximum returns. A tiny jade frog And flea market katana Sealed into a pre Amazon box. The real me hidden In little pieces and parts. A storage unit of growth. Tupperware of papers Of 'me' That I probably don't need But am too afraid to throw out.

#vss365 #jade
#skywriter #poetry #blueskypoet

I bought the frog in Epcot in the Japan pavilion when I was 14. I had to have it. It lived in at least 5 storage units. The prompt immediately made me think of it, so here is a #poem..

I felt... numb ... this morning. Around 845am, I finally was able to write a poem I was proud of longer than BlueSky limits and the rest of the day followed.

#thankful

#poetry #poem #unknown #questions #grief #pain #MovingOn #joy

That's fantastic work

We are constantly traumatized by the unhealed. Our duty walks home. (Image made by me in Glitch Lab and Canva)

We are constantly
traumatized by the unhealed.
Our duty walks home.

#poetry #haiku #art #glitchart

Untitled 2 A misunderstanding Of my misrepresentations Misses all around I only took responsibility Once I took everything else And decided I didn't want it Easy to give blame When it is so abundant To name it And spin it Make the delusional Palatable For a mirror assessment Boiled down to a moment Of revelation Then shifted in language To all be a simple Misunderstanding

#Emoetry #justified
#poetry #skywriter #blueskypoet

It's hard, to be honest with yourself. What if you stop being the hero of your own story?
Here is a #poem...

Thank you! 🙏🙏

Thank you!

I really like the visual and literal shift here! Really well done

They waited patiently
for sugar weather,
greedy for
brighter days,
sunnier dispositions,
optimistic in this
fathomless chaos
for reason,
clarity;

They lived in
unspeakable times
with men who
committed
unspeakable crimes,
yet looped the loop
day after day

#poetry

Untitled 4/14 I stare ahead My eyes greedy for Beauty and permanence The tree only blooms A few days An explosion of pink and white The story of spring In branches and birdsong Then the blooms fall And cover the ground The driveway The sidewalk Beauty fades to Inconvenience And I complain quietly As I sweep up My joy from a week ago

#emoetry #greed
#vss365 #loop
#poetry #skywriter #blueskypoet

I love and hate this tree equally depending on the day. A vicious cycle, or even ..a loop!
And with that, here is a #poem...

I appreciate that!! Thank you🙏

Thank you! 🙏

Gaps Letters fall away like shingles Let s all s in On an abandoned house Many times Ma y i any me My meaning changes With the erosion of ink The lack of retrospect re spect The reason suffers gaps The distance grows From paper to pen The son suffer s As the letters fall away he let s fall

#vss365 #letters
#poetry #skywriter #bkueskypoet

This one needs a little work, but I really like the premise. I am posting it as is, but will reform it with more thought and polished edges later.
So here is a #poem...

The tiny sink in a hospital room I've forgotten how many times I banged my hip on that sink in our cloistered, claustrophobic room. I've forgotten how many times I washed my hands, rinsed out cups, wet the wipes to wash your face clean. I washed my hair in it twice, my bent back stiff from the chair, water slopping over the sides, dripping noiselessly onto the rubber floor. And once it stopped me from falling when there was nothing else left to hold on to.

#vss365
#sink
#poetry

featherfooted consciousness as nighttime reaps uncertainty the veil of consciousness wears thin I float and hover — featherfooted dressed in stars and sunken dreams hold on while fraying at the seams no wars but scars turned wings through time and patience bears a source of light — tonight I stray let wonder carry heavy thought within this intimate embrace nesting in peace amidst old doubt just whispers — I refrain from shouting since time won't yield like gravity

My contribution to
#PoemsAbout #EdgeOfKnowing

following the fraying threads of a lucid dream...

Thank you for the prompt
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk

Looking forward to read all other contributions, still some catching up to do...

Blind Finger Sweep I wanted 5 mins for myself So you took 20 and change I held my tongue and smiled You only added to the list What can I do? For you? The world is half assed ending And I am still on the clock Holding myself to a standard Nobody gives a shit about An antique treasure In a store no one goes to A leaded glass mirror In a house of mercury switches

#vss365 #blind
#poetry #blueskypoet

Sometimes the attempt to help only makes the problem worse

Here is a #poem...

Blistered My life in layers Sediment turning to rock Rings in an ancient oak Some of them match Others present in opposition Spaces Where I blistered peeled Paint in fire Times when immolation Was an answer or an affliction And I had to start again Marking the space In charcoal black The permanent Smell of smoke A barrier As much as a layer

#Emoetry #blistered
#poetry #blueskypoet

Here is a #poem...

Soft mist rising over a river at sunrise.

Petals will always fall
she used to watch them
scatter on lonely #banks

but now
she closes her eyes

unaware
of how they shift
and refract
under new light.

They’re only flowers
pressed into inkless pages
she’ll never open again.

Walking in the dark,
she stumbles less
with each moon.

#vss365

she keeps
apologizing
to the sky
for the sharp
of the stars
for the way
brightness
cuts through
the soft, dark
underbelly
of the cosmos

#poetry

Lovely!! (And pretty good reminder)
Thanks!!

moments of peace
granted
to those who slow their gaze

Or

grants management
a wonderful job
but I am so tired -
learning curve

(Ready for the #weekend)

#haikufeels #haiku #grant #poetry #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #photography

Grant me three wishes,
I only need the one, a
World without the guns.
#Haikufeels #grant #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

outlook - unsettled

#vss365 #bank #poem #poetry #isevil

it
is a glistening dagger
borne by a stalking butler

it
is a promise
on the lips on an angel

it
might fade like a sigh
regardless of motion

it
might outlive
the stars

it
has a name

it
has no true name

it
looks like you

it
looks like me

it
is so much more

#pennedreveries

I thank you for taking the time to read and give feedback!! 🙏🙏

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