DEARTH
— an accounting of borrowed light

The Hungry Moon
counting what the night withholds,
leaving light unfinished.

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EVERGREEN — when childhood returns unannounced

Childhood doesn’t knock — it sneaks in with rain-soaked memories,
paper boats, muddy feet, and the kind of freedom we didn’t know was rare
#nostalgia_strikes, not as a thought, but as a feeling that still fits us perfectly.

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THE ASTRAL TRACE
— where familiar light lingers beyond sight

At times, the stars shift with a quiet #vision of their own—
a brief nearness that feels almost deliberate,
as though something once loved
leans through the dark
to be recognised again.

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THAWPOINT — where cold remembers fire

Some winters only melt for one kind of fire.
What glows in silence is often the truest light.

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UNTENDED— remembering as continuation, not return

I didn’t keep everything.
but some things kept me.

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STILLROOT — patience without witness

Some things grow without applause.
Not every persistence needs an audience.
Roots do their work in silence —
and silence remembers.

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REMAINS — the past haunts

Time doesn’t steal everything — it leaves behind echoes that learn to breathe.
Some memories fade, others settle inside us, quietly rewriting who we become.

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REFRACTION — how light learns to return differently

Even the light, once broken, can return #restored — quieter, wiser and more itself.

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CICATRIX — where moonlight remembers

Some wounds refuse silence; even the sky carries its scars in silver.

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WHISPERS IN DUST —where silence keeps its secrets

Some tales never make it past the lips that carried them. They rest in shadows, guarded by dust, waiting for a reader who may never come.

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EMBERFALL —where endings turn to light

When autumn beckons, it does not mourn—it teaches. Each leaf carries a philosophy: endings are not erasures, but graceful transfigurations.

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VEIN OF AIR —where silence leans forward

On the #precipice , silence breathes differently — fragile, weightless, yet daring to move beyond.

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TWILIGHT — womb of unspoken light

Birthing shadows fall, their whispers stitch broken light, a secret is sown, darkness carries tomorrow, cradling dawn in silence.

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DISSONANCE — in the hush of emptiness, I find strange harmony breathing inside me.

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CLEAVE—where silence fractures skyward

"When the sky fractures, so do I—yet in the scatter of stars, I find my own reflection"

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REDRAFT
—when silence edits the soul

"Some edits are storms;
they strip you bare until
only the truest lines remain"

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WINGSMITH — forging silence from a fall

"A single feather, its voyage complete,
still persuades the earth to remember the sky"

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PETALSCAR
—what faded never left

in the hush between
your breath and my disbelief,
broken oaths folded
like dried petals in my palm—
still fragrant, still unbeheld.

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"Sometimes, even silence bruises with a scent."

MISREAD
—what the mirror knew before I did

I almost believed
being unloved was #mistaken—
but in this still glass,
I see the life I chose bloom
without apology’s weight

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MOURNCODE
—when silence outlives the storm

the sky forgot names
draped in lilac grey silence
like my mother’s scarf
folded inside a suitcase
I never dared to reopen

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NOCTURNE
—where grief rewrites time in invisible ink

each breath is a debt
unpaid by the quiet hours—
a life half-stitched shut
by all I dared not confess
beneath #sleepless nights

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WALKED WITHOUT MAPS
—the corridors knew me before I arrived

I walked the #labyrinth
thinking I’d outrun the ache—
but it led me back,
each echo a name I dropped,
each wall stitched from what I lost.

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DECENTRE
—after the symmetry cracked

I fell from grace fast—
not like angels, but like glass
splitting on shame’s floor.
the light didn’t catch me. just
my own pulse, still unforgiven.

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STILLLIGHT
—what follows after form fades

shadows dance again
on the wall I stopped naming—
grief, in silhouette,
choreographs what remains
when memory leaves the room.

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#poeticriveries
Prompt:Shadow's dance
TWINSOULS ENTWINED,
SUNRAYS KISS THE JOY

Beneath the canopy
a soul seeks its kindred twin
in the shadow’s dance
their love scents the open sky,
sunrays blink with endless joy.

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SELF-AWAKENING
—on the cusp of cognition

a tremor within
not of nerves, but recognition—
I am #sentient,
but breath made aware of breath,
thinking myself into form

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#BATTLE CRY
—whispers forged in the armor of thought

my silence cracked loud
in the syntax of shadows—
not all wars wear swords
some begin beneath the breath
and end where poems are born

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-Wild Brambles-
'etched in forgotten paths'

#Wildbrambles whisper
secrets of where I once bled,
paths I never spoke—
thorns that rewrote my silence,
roots tangled in memory.

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☆ Fool's Paradise ☆
'the comfort we borrow from what we know will end'
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I knew it was false,
but the quiet felt like truth—
soft, sweet, temporary.
Even illusions have rooms
where silence learns how to heal.

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#Season of #Mist

#OBLIVION
'The Erasure of Forgotten Eras'

Mist veils shattered spires,
ashen scrolls dissolve like breath,
names drown in silence,
ruins cradle brittle echoes,
time unspools what once had been.

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