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the old king's axe
reflecting deep as Deirdre's eyes
outlived his trophy wife
by fifty generations
to pop up in a turnip field
between a broken hoe
and thick museum glass
where if you stand just so
the soft caress of light
reveals
eternal beauty
#vss365 #jade #poem #poetry
_the unseeming camouflage of squid_
next you will believe
in pancake earths
the madman's raving tweets
and anti viral bleach
while mermaids walk the street
in battle dresses
#vss365 #undersea #poem #poetry
I chose a fixed number of syllables per line, but the rhythm is (has emerged) erratic.
Is that a flaw or a bonus?
#poetrycommunity
atlantis beckons along the salty strand at dark lie huge abandoned wooden arks wet shoulders to the rising seas on rocks of deep bureaucracy softly drowned in risk assessments green levies on new linen sails tax relief on diesel engines is still somehow the holy grail the greed of gulls is quite distinct but doves, alas, are long extinct
__ Ys __
there's an ocean over funnel boulevard
where once Moon's silver train we caught
bright fish upon sharp silken threads
no dreams of eating all the stars
for breakfast
#vss365 #undersea #Brittany #poem #poetry
__ no tricky decision __
when the criminal asks
for a hand
but all you can spare
is a finger
and the simplest of plans
for where
you might stick it
come Fall
#vss365 #trickery #poem #poetry
𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬' 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐬
that leach of sound
through cracks in duplex floors:
a trickery of bleach and raw milk
filtering through sleek silk shirts
as optimistic cures
for each dumb voter's hand;
their harsh misguided trigger
#vss365 #trickery #poem #poetry
investiture:
with royal sleight of hand
the new king sequestering
all treasury and land
ancestral trickery preserved
in slowly murdered song
and dry-cleaned ermine
#vss365 #trickery #investiture
#poem #poetry #definition
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not #haiku, but an echo of haiku
perhaps, given the satirical nature, more like senryu?
#poetrycommunity
#poem #poetry #smallpoemsunday
old eu pond
that vance
jumps in
a sound like demons
alienating
#poem #poetry #micropoetry
__terminal velocity__
six feet is judged
as deep enough
when light is gone
and newton's law becomes
irrelevant
a nearby apple tree might
bloom again come spring
as though to taunt
with quaint and pointless
resurrection
#poemsAbout #Gravity #poem #poetry
if #ISIHAC replaced Song Stoppers with Poem Pissers [sic] then "soul" would do it every time for me.
Good call 👏
.
like the heaviest poems
that sink without trace; while
the unbearable lightness
of snow
.
.
.
.
.
flakes
#poemsAbout #Gravity
#poem #poetry #micropoetry #tanka #5lines
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__and another fake marmalade war__
below an orange skin
not marmalade
but bitterness and sin
#poem #poetry #senryu #micropoetry
𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠
truth's swift orbit
faster than the sun
in nets of deepest madness caught
like earth made flat by proclamation
strait jackets now for everyone
#vss365 #poemsAbout #gravity #poem #poetry #micropoetry
Poem - 'An introduction to poetry' by Billy Collins
My high school experience was very much the last 2 stanzas of this Ars Poetica
There's a place for the dissection of a poem to understand craft, particularly as a poet
But before you want to write you need to love poems, to water ski across their surface
#Poetry
#Poemoftheday
#Nationalpoetrymonth
__amoc time__
all the great are dead
they just don't know it yet
too busy building promises and debts
to Mother
read their words now
carved in sand
#vss365 #words #poem #poetry #cherita #ozymandias #lust
__myopic dividends__
this world repeats its standard loop
a birth, a death, another species
bites the dust
like Mother really has no care
like us
#vss365 #loop #poem #poetry #micropoetry
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__vintaging__
no back to the future
nor Möbius loops
just time
as a corkscrew, and we
as the wine
#vss365 #loop #poem #poetry #micropoetry #5lines
well, if anyone knows how to drive this follower bot, speak up!
how many are bots and the like.
@realfollowers.bsky.social
𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐬
perhaps they slyly dance
though only when our eyes are closed
but then
my stumbling arrogance
to minimise
the omnipresent small things
looking down or up
or in
and, who knows
humbly wondering
#response #poem #poetry v2
𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬
we carry still
inside our bones
the dust of children killed
in hiroshima
taking time for slow and deep
revenge
#vss365 #water #poem #poetry #micropoetry 🇺🇸
so it was
and so it is
brexit
😢
#response #micropoetry #poem #poetry
I saw his brain roll out of his left ear.
- Are you sure?
Well ...
- Wait, I see something's moving over there!
... maybe it was a spider
𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚 😢
inside this book a million letters
playing games with stars and love
outside the book a stamp
of disapproval
and riding boots
with red hot iron rods
#vss365 #letters #poem #poetry
Well, that name rang a liitle bell. Sure enough, one of my deeper bookshelves has been looking after something for a decade or two, waiting for time to expand enough for me to read it. Or it just sqeezed through from elsewhen. Whatever. Thanks for moving it closer to the surface. 👏