.

we are an illusion
within an illusion,
creating our own illusion

.
#oddlyme
#poetry #micropoetry #illusion

.

It's like I'm falling through the dark
wondering how deep the blahs go.
.
#oddlyme #lyricalthought
#poetry #micropoetry #depression

Beautiful contrast of a clouded beach shoreline in black and white.

incensed beneath clouds
waves hush my desolate mind
alone, i find peace.

#dailyhaikuprompt
#emoetry @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social

📸 Gabby @gabbydp.bsky.social

Falling inches deeper into sorrow everyday

Trapped and sinking in a molasses pool

Thick is the substance of memories taken for granted

With my mouth I barely speak to break free

Hating the reactions of those who float effortlessly on water

One day I know their boats will sink too

#poetry

sweet tinnitus—
a chorus of
spring peepers

#haiku
#senryu

In Your Mind

Sometimes…too many times, actually
No matter how hard you try to imagine things might change
You wake in the dark with dread pushing against your chest
Later, after sunrise and toast and coffee
You listen to your favorite song
Pretend to sing along
If only in your mind
#vss365

.

The Cut Rose

moody red rosette
vibrant, in quiet breath
it enchants
captivates
even as it wilts
I adore its loveliness

#oddlyme
#poetry #micropoetry
#inkMine #prompts ENCHANT QUIET LOVELINESS VIBRANT MOOD CAPTIVATE

So go ahead and kiss me harder
Drown me in affection and laughter
You know of my love from before
But you remain the woman I am after
#poetry

The strength of man will fade,
But the strength of spirit remains.

For existence begets life,
Life begets perception,
Perception begets attachment,
Attachment begets suffering,
Suffering begets joy.
All are one, one is all,
All is none, none is all.

#poetry #poem

It’s always 25 o’clock.
Or we are stealth
in our approach?
Scythe and hourglass
traded for
a thin rectangle
with wrecked angels,
no longer watching.
Cracked coverslips,
not an issue. Sales
gathering solds
solidly. Old Man
Time has a new gig,
Death was
shitcanned.
#5amwritersclub #poetry #poem

The big book of nursery rhymes Art - Charles Robinson, ca 1903

Bat, bat,
Come under my hat,
And I'll give you a slice of bacon;

And when I bake,
I'll give you some cake,
If I am not mistaken

🦇 #WyrdWednesday #nurseryrhymes #poetry

oh, my darling

we have fallen
together again
into this fraught orbit

where the air tastes
of scarlet and
honey

where fractures
bloom beneath
our fingertips

where we hold
—oh we hold
the shatter of each other

#poetry

Ten years of madness and stress
Everyday I die
Watching the vision of evil

#blueskypoets

.

Like a ghost
In the shade of a shadow
The cheery tears began with a sniggle
A giggle that didn’t belong to anyone

#oddlyme
#vss365 #ghost
#poetry #micropetry #writingcommunity
#blueskypoetry

Round and round,
The endless thoughts race
Through my mind.

abridged #haiku #poetry

raw wounds never heal.
war turns the world inside out
breath stings in the air

#BraveWrite #war #haiku #writing #writingcommunity
#micropoetry

i will bury you in my art
again and again
so you will forever live
#haiku #poetry

darling you do not
have to understand me
i am twilight; that is all
#haiku #poetry

Open up my heart
Please dig out all of the pain
Put it back mended

#haikufeels
#haiku
#poetry

Yellow buttercups... Sounds beautiful.

need is a full cup,
greed is a hole in the glass,
never quite enough

#emoetry #greed #haiku #writing #micropoetry

They look Great... :)

Oh... No... Allergies?

the floating pollen of agony
lilacs with no apologies
as I reach for the loratadine
and lose my rhyme

#oddlyme
#poetry #micropoetry #allergies

Congratulations... :)

I shouldn't fall in love again
we'll forever be apart
my disease will shorten my lifespan
maybe by stopping my heart
but if you asked me to be with you
I'd run straight to your arms
I'll love you beyond my dying day
with apologies for causing harm

#WildWalkPrompt #tragedy #poetry #writing

through a grey day
a story written
by a cloud

#art #abstract #painting #humanart #cloud #story #poetry

I gripped summer
hard, fierce, not so fierce
for even my hold is soft

monsoon has made a promise
I look forward to when able
not a drizzle but downpour

sometimes soft needs
unfiltered and real-raw
to bleed in time with

#poetry

Settling into the silence

I had a ‏thought ‏A sweet thought ‏A stream of a thought ‏A babbling winding surging meandering river undertowing the thought ‏The thought in two thoughts of a thought of surrendering the sweetness of the ‏the ‏there… ‏the ‏,not no. Naught. of a By C. Oulens

For #PoemsAbout #EdgeOfKnowing, I found a thought and followed it too far.?

@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

Thank you for reading 🙏🙏

#Oulens #BlueskyPoetry #micropoetry #poetry
#poetrycommunity #NaPoWriMo #WritingCommunity