Thank you, Waffle. I appreciate it. Sorry for the late response. It seems there are some notifications I didn't get. 🙏🖤

A stalk of Lilly of the Valley with ten little white flower bells and large green leaves.

Oh, to be tiny
And fit in a bell
Dreaming Lilly things

#photography #poetry #peace #hope #beauty #eastcoastkin #nature #bloomscrolling #colors #white #green #imagination

Photo credit: Nikola Tomašić

Thank you, Lanie. I really appreciate it. 🙏🖤

I remember blueberries,
tiny nibbling fishes in a river,
wanton disregard of holy ground
the pull of your gravity

but I feel I'll only be remembered
for what I've forgotten

I wanted to believe
that life was full of circles

instead
so many wonderful things begin
& then they just

end
#FromOneLine

Thank you. My apologies for taking so long to respond. I really appreciate your comment and am glad you connected to what I wrote. 🙏❤️

Thank you, Juniper. Kind of you to say. 🫂🙏❤️And I agree, that 8 thought as I got older, my heart would get tougher, but I feel it just accumulates the hurt and just feels more fragile. Hopefully I'll bounce back. 😔

I approve of the combination of crass and elegance. Crass is always more enjoyable with class. lol

I am not a huge fan of death metal though, but thank you for sharing. I did enjoy seeing death metal in Japenese garb though. lol

This is so beautiful. 👏👏❤️

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

This was so good!😂

𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁

one day
it will all be
dust

hopes, fears,
the passing
of years

all gone
the sun
blooms on

earth overrun
as time
treads on

we, a blink,
who sometimes
think

ourselves
the omega
when beta

has barely
begun

#vss365 #dust #edit

she holds
a faded
a photograph
in her pocket
a random
october evening
on a nyc sidewalk
he was smiling at her
a passerby
took the photo
that night
she became
a ghost
that would haunt him
under the marquee lights

That's not a bad cover. I actually explored covers of this song once before. Bonnie Tyler, despite her raspy voice, has an incredible range and the notes in this hard to hit. The only good covers I found were by Patti Russo and, strangely, Lucy Lawless. lol

Thank you. You're a person who definitely knows how to give a meaningful compliment. It means a lot. 🙏❤️

maybe we were always doomed
only getting to express love
at night

is it any wonder
I couldn't see
the jade in your eyes?

there were many things
you missed about me too

oh, but the songs
I wrote about our silhouettes

if our love
could have seen
the light of day?

it's too big
to imagine

#vss365

Guns N' Roses - November Rain YouTube video by GunsNRosesVEVO

#FromOneLine 413

I remember blueberries
precariously balanced
on my stomach

while November Rain
pursed wistful notes
from that old stereo
onto our beaded skin,

caring not that it was summer
and the only cold
was the first touch of blue
on your tongue.

#amlistening

youtu.be/8SbUC-UaAxE?...

🫂🫂

I understand. While it is nice to feel less alone, it's also true that I don't wish this upon anybody. Thank you for these words. You're a good soul. 🫂🫂

Thank you, Juniper. I felt I might worry some people with the way this poem starts, but have been surprised by how many people have felt this feeling. It's made me feel less lonely. So thank you. I'll check out your poem now.

🫂🫂

I feel there is a long road ahead. It's so hard when it feels like someone is in your blood. But I figure choosing a direction is the first step. Starting therapy tomorrow. 🙏❤️

Thank you for your kindness. All directions seem hard, but I'm at point where only one direction gives me control over my healing and that's the direction I need to take. I've been living in the land of in-between for too long. ❤️🫂

Thank you for sharing. I definitely feel a connection to the lyrics. Each day I wake up feeling stuck. The one person who could most easily lift me out, can't...maybe won't...and am unsure how to leave, even though I know I have to. 🙏

Thank you, SK. I appreciateit. 🫂🖤

Thank you, Serena. I appreciate your comment and words of support. I'm trying my best to write through my pain. I miss writing about other things. 🙏❤️🫂

Thank you, Bethany. I do truly have much to be grateful for. I long to feel that joy again. I know I'll get there. It's just hard. Depression makes someone you love disappear, and then you disappear too. No closure, no shared grief. Just an open wound that you have to try and heal yourself.

It's just poetry. It was meant to be more metaphorical than anything. Death is often metaphorically seen as something that can bring out renewal. I just want to be renewed and have what I am experiencing to be integrated and not weigh me down so much. Thank you for your concern. 🙏🖤

Thanks, Bethany, for your encouraging words. I feel like I am aching for a renewal, some magic to push me through my grief. I know that's not really how we process & integrate things, but it's just so exhausting & my mind loops, and I feel anger and sadness and want to scream & cry at the same time.

That's why all they can do is a slow convoy that blocks traffic. lol

I am interested
in dying

I want the wind
to blow me away
piece by piece
until I am reconstructed
anew

I want undersea creatures
that pull at me
to drag me down
for a sleep
deep in the dark
so when I wake
everything now
is far in the past

tell me
you understand
and eulogize me
with love

#vss365