It took astronauts
a goddess
moon crater naming love
to show me feeling small can be
a beautiful thing
testament to how tangled together we are
revelation like David's perfect chord
so full of awe
it soothes the parts of me that shrank for you
stars look small
&break darkness with their light
#poem
wrap the weight of night around my
shoulders like a blanket
tuck my heart in
draw the darkness closer
nestled head over feet in a sanctuary
of stars
wheeling through the sky
infintisimal & infinite
drunk on satellites & atmosphere
yearning like a lover flying too close to
the #moon
#poetry #poem
Phenomenal resource! Thanks for sharing this and Emily's site.
I will hide your shadow in the
shape of words I haven't found yet
maybe a glib cliché or pretty paradox tripping off my tongue
still more tender than I'd like to admit
but lighter than the way I loved you
easier to carry
#poetry #newpoem #amwriting #poem #writingcommunity #movingon #lovelanguage
Break like river ice
Turn a flood of tiny poems
Run wild with yourself
#newpoem #haiku #micropoem #poetry #advicefrommothernature #hopecore #river #waterislife #wild
Spring is unfolding
Earth soft, sky yellow with rain
Begin again. Here.
(Winter is for endings, love.
Spring is for seeds. Root.)
#poem #newpoem #poetry #beginagain #haiku #newbeginnings #spring #grow
Weave story hold truth
beautifully bleak--alive--
threshold shaped what if...
#haiku #poetry #poem #whatif #imagine #write #begin #storyteller
Old dreams spill fog through night
far off sirens wail a lost song
their lamentations rise between us
glass green waves breaking on tired shores
once great mountains worn to pebbles
& myth
my pockets are full of skipping stones
every breath
dances with ghosts of you
#poem #poetry #vss #loss #lore
Broken shards of history hide in gardens of people no one remembers anymore I run a tentative finger along soil softened once sharp edge what distracted the Roman to burn their dinner so badly they buried it pot and all Did joy sweep in unexpectedly hands overflowing with wonder begging to be held? Did love come dressed in grief so harsh, so heavy even to glimpse that burnt shell of what was that shade of what could not be saved was a wound they could not bear only bury? When their fingers tore at the earth were the digging a grave for hope? Or planting a seed and laughing all the while? -L.S.
Broken shards of history
hide in gardens of people
no one remembers anymore...
#poem #poetry #hiddenstories #freeverse #writingcommunity
One day I'll read these sunbleached
bones with wiser eyes
throw hand in hand with Fate
cry laughing while She teaches me to
suck the marrow from broken past
feed the future full
into being
hope rage tears spittle flying
like maple keys spin to earth
destined
rot or grow
#poem #HaikuHorrorPrompt #vss
This is deeply relatable. Thank you for sharing hard things and inspiration alike.
Spin my wheel in circles
draw moon from sky with a lasso of my best intentions
shift oceans in their tides
find Fate in their wake
beg Her to cut this wayward weft
rewarp Her loom
let me try again
weave something beautiful
out of this life of loose threads
stop coming undone
#poetry #MPPrompt #poem
Spring Lantern Moon wanes
night sky hung with promises
star lit dreams rise fall
#poem #DailyHaikuPrompt #poetry #haiku #prompt
You taste like cold salt
stain this bleak season
with foolish broken hope
linger in my footprints
bitter on my tongue
mouth full of ashes
spit a fine silt of grief over me
long cool fingers on fevered cheeks
wind whipped waves crash green against the shore
you taste like cold salt
#poem #poetry
I would've given anything
sacrificed everything
knew love
a giving up
for getting to have
held too tight
that fleeting bud
one eye over my shoulder
waiting for #love to realize
I wasn't good enough to keep it
Was love good enough to keep me?
I would've given anything
I know better now
#poem #poetry
Watch
see
crack the lies
big bully brother screams
so you can't hear yourself think
stark cold truth
bleeding in the streets
bearing witness
won't
stop baby's foaming mouth
save a nurse bleeding out
shepherd pink coats safely home
but if it helps believe your eyes
watch
see
rise
#poem #art #resist
Void after goodbye
#threewordgenre #micropoem #interval #goodbye #poem #prompt
tender beginnings
planted in womb dark take root
seed hope change everything
#haiku #poem #hope #poetry #roots
Don't you know, my love? We're all just saving each other with our silly little crafts and words woven into poems, songs, prayers, possibilities and impossibilites sculpted from our souls & traveling the globe at the speed of connection cobbled together by cables sunk to the bottom of the ocean (and sometimes nibbled by sharks). How strange, how sacred to be strangers all tangled up in life together, finding ourselves and saving each other with our wild, weird little artistries and the magic we make when we dare to share them. ~ L.S.
Don't you know, my love?
Art is how we find ourselves.
And save each other.
(Full poem in the alt text)
#poem #art #creativity #poetry #dare
Exactly. Frankly, I need the coffee to figure out the clothes thing.😂
Tits out in the kitchen
isn't where I thought I'd find myself
but there are worse ways to start over
than unbridled by convention
or the clothes of who you thought
you should be
I choose naked & nourished
in delightfully unexpected ways
over playing placeholder
waiting for life
to find me
#poem
There will be shadows.
You can't hold them. Let them fall.
Reach toward the light.
#haiku #poem #shadow #light #poetry #wordstoliveby #writeyourheartout
Moonlight paints walls
casts #shadows
empty promises
on old anchors
where love used to hang
patch over remnants of us in the
morning
tonight
the woman who believed in you
writes poem pleas to the stars
from the balcony
a eulogy
for who she was
& the man she loved
who doesn't exist
#poem #vss #moon
Gorgeous.
I will choose again.
Risk love. Hope perchance to dream.
Against the odds. Still.
#poetry #haiku #dream #poem #risk #love #shakespeare
I used to call myself yours.
I felt safe there
in the shadow of your name.
Now it aches to see
how I shrank.
How you didn't care.
(Hindsight is a loving bitch--
always late
but never wrong.)
#poem #hindsight #poetry
It hurts to become
not becoming wounds aches rots
you will pay. So choose.
#haiku #poem #becoming #poetry
The dead never die.
Once there was. Once there wasn't.
In the end, what lives?
#poem #haiku #lifequestions