In all nature nothing inspires fear
as much as the sight of man drawing near

#vss365 #micropoetry #couplets #man #blueskypoets

©Gerry White, 2026

Our eyes exalt at every bird in flight
our hearts give fault we never reach that height

#vss365 #exalt #couplets #micropoetry #blueskypoets

©Gerry White, 2026

#poetsofdoom #ILike #vssdaily #minus #couplets #poem

Shadows holding a fine attention,
#Grateful for this generous mention

Yet keeping their eyes obscured.
In darkness veiled and blurred

The cold fingers touch my back:
My sins remain ever intact.

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Emotions fell #flat in the coffee
Shop, life like an upscale movie

We said farewell for the last time,
Our beginning and end did rhyme:

I still think of you sometimes
Sparing our days with a dime.

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The screaming pressure, mouths
Wide open, fists shaking, we filth

Stomping #emboldened on this
New ground; a sacred ingress

Of scattered leaves and grass
From green all to a brass.

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Outside of #Defiance is a small
Town, a one horse tavern stall:

Outside of #Defiance is John’s
First date, watching the Dawn:

Outside of Dawn is a blanket
Of warm stars, a little secret.

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Ghazal number 3. It is in no way traditional. The couplets are loosely connected via theme.

#ghazal #poetry #poem #poetrycommunity #drunkpoet #poet #couplets

Clocks are #nostalgic on rainy
Days, where the air feels grainy

And when the sky is misty
With the tears of angels whispy;

Rose colored filters find my eyes
Painting all the flags I see to be
A light red to cover all the past days.

#emoetry #couplets #tercet #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writing

The dripping rain cries-
From clouds no longer shy
Until finally we must ask
Why?

The street is a river
That flows to the Piper,
And his mystic music
Musings ringing in heads thick.

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The #uncomfortable shoes tap
Across the dance on that poor sap-
Brought his cousin as his date
And so turned the wheels of fate:
Next week she has three suitors
And they’re all people he tutors!

#emoetry #couplets #poem #micropoetry #writingcommunity

In the cement jungle between buildings
Roams adorable friends with #whiskers whisking,
Their days away on patrol for pets and mice:
With eyes that betray cunning and days ever wise.

#wildwalkprompt #couplets #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

I have borrowed words from the valley winter's thawing echo bounding freely in the still, crisp January air, both hope and fear linger there. I have borrowed words from the gutters bent broken metal bones shudder twisting off houses, collapsed under the weight of ice, cementing loss asunder. I have borrowed words from tent domes snow-buried behind Food Lion, homes makeshift in parking lots and canal paths becoming staked in polyester body bags. I have borrowed words from long lines outside empty food banks with closed signs, the refrain repeats in a minor key the refrain repeats, hunger symphonies. I have borrowed words from you the lost and transient, the system eschews. We are all one step away from dire fates, what more can be said, what more awaits?

It originally was free verse with a scant amountof internal rhyme. Then when I went to type it, rhyming #couplets emerged. Hope it still kept its #narrative quality as much as its #lyrical one. Regardless, enjoy. Take out there. 🤗

#fromoneline #ihaveborrowedwordsfromyou #poem #poetry #skypoem

“I’m #nonplussed, uncertain
Of the intricacies it contains:
An image lapping colors-
A rainbow swirl that hollers.”

#emoetry #couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

Loners #loathed his very being
That smile he would wear, bling
He would flash from his mouth
A warning learnt in our youth:

Friendship can come cheap
But I shall never come to sleep.

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#invocation #poems #poetry #poetryofprotest #iran #ninasimone #couplets

a pattern of fast food icons including a hamburger french fries ice cream and a chicken leg ALT: a pattern of fast food icons including a hamburger french fries ice cream and a chicken leg

This week’s #poetryprompt from my Rhyme Time group:

Write a poem inspired by fast food.
Happy Meal haiku #haiku
Arby’s acrostic #acrostic
Shamrock shake limerick #limerick
Chicken nugget couplets #couplets
A value menu villanelle #villanelle

#kidspoetry #poetryforkids #rhyme #poetry

He was #willfull and youthful
Then age came along rather dull;
A sharp edge meets Father Time
Who knows all of the rhymes.

Sitting on a throne of melted clocks he checked his pocket watch as time comes for all, even he.

#emoetry #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity #couplets

The leaf moves #nonchalent
As the winds of change be bent:
An echoing cry of the heart-
Gun shots are always the start.

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#heartbroken and weeping
under the willow tree soothing
bruised egos by nature’s smells:
Flowers and pollen all swell.

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Shades of our yesteryear
Turn and turn our limited gears
Till we turn #purple with envy,
Even as it turns our hearts heavy.

#couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

Defying Gossamery In Defying Gossamery, Tristan Robert Lange presents a poem built entirely of questions, confronting survival, inequality, and the impossible standards imposed on the vulnerable. Written in rhymed couplets with varied meter, the poem presses relentlessly forward, asking how much one must endure, transform, or transcend before compassion and justice finally arrive.

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Defying Gossamery by Tristan Robert Lange

A poem built entirely of questions—about survival, injustice, and impossible expectations. Written in rhymed couplets, this piece presses until silence answers back.

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#Poetry #Couplets #Resistance #TittuPoetry #Tittu

#Rattled in the dying evening light
We listened to their Homeric plight,
The sun set to bed behind the river
Experiences loading up a quiver.

#emoetry #couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

#robin #wildwalkprompt #silly #couplets #poem

My legs were #jumpy with every
Bump, they shook not with merry
But with fear and anticipation
Of what awaited at the station.

#emoetry #couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

To be #idealistic is not to be young
But to be wise and have songs sung
Up and down the guitars neck
Like a siren seeking a wreck.

#emoetry #couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

Sky #admired emerald eyes
Fields admired shifting ways.
In balance, forever separate
Always loving, even intimate:

Forbidden love is at its strongest when the lovers are forced apart.

#emoetry #couplets #quatrain #oneline #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

To be #weird is to understand
That normalcy is a thing we bend-
A construct we shape to our own
Ends, an endless moan
That does not exist
Yet which we twist.

#emoetry #couplets #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

The #moon watches #vigorous
#Gardens growing in porous
Dirt, vegetables stretching to the
Sky keeping away floods to be.

#emoetry #retroartprompt #couplets #quatrain #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

We are #gleaming against the bricks
And all around us are the bare sticks
That pray up into the gray heavens
Waiting for the snow to fall at eleven

#retroartprompt #couplets #quatrains #poem #poetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity