Ever Again. Love is glorious, but it will crush you in the end. That no longer scares me. When I meet the right one, I won’t wonder how long it lasts. It lasts until it doesn’t… and I won’t worry about when. Love’s worth hurting for. I’m a dad to daughters and pets, their hurts are worth it too. If they hurt you regularly, that’s not love. The right people in your life only hurt you once. When one of you has to go. I won’t miss days like this. Waking to make coffee for us to savor in bed. Dog walks through any season in the woods. Reading together, cuddled on the couch. All that time, her scent drives me wild, whole-body kisses starting at my toes. We become entwined in ecstasy. Fear of pain won’t keep those days from me ever again. -JSC

Ever Again
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Good trouble…

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#Writing chalkboard lines was one way to learn your #letters. Also a tough lesson that cramped your style.

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i. behind the water butt all warts and wisdom (generations of familiarity with witches doubtless) ii. darting, then still nose quivering, eyes polished jet, assessing me for danger then goes on gathering greenfinch-scattered sunflower seeds iii. by the pond beneath dead grass it lies tight coiled & glistens like a living fossil — still save for tongue testing tasting

"Garden Fauna".

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A single letter
Affirms the importance of
Deeds long forgotten.
Bonds formed by a drunken lapse
Produced a mistake

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Fertile minds spring forth
Combinations of letters
Musings that melts then
Melds into a singular
Pleasing reverie

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Be you, them liking you isn’t important…

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Our Heart's Promise — Nikki Rae Post by Nikki Rae

Sorry for the wait. New #poem is up!

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Rain falls softly on the quiet street,
Where we once shared warmth in a small café seat,
Coffee between us, like time standing still,
Now just memories the raindrops gently fill.
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i. slow, horns swaying with its gait, mahogany — not matt or gloss... but somewhere in between, across a stone slab altar-like ii. in chasuble of white and green it flutters by, alighting now on charlock, now on lady’s smock a flying thurifer that leaves a faint but noticeable trail of lemon iii. at night the heat lies heavy on the room’s humidity, and the high-pitched whine, relentless, of a two-winged protopsaltis wards off sleep.

"Entomolatry".

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Tumultuous tides
Laden with loss potential
Once redirected
And channeled properly we
Can be powerful

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A practiced stillness
Carrying the tight tension
Of trouble waters
Emotional torrents try
To break the surface

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Golden leaves fall like whispers of goodbye,
Yet in their dance, new dreams begin to rise.
Through autumn winds, a quiet hope takes flight,
That love will bloom again in springtime light.
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Of lights… ✨✨✨

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jade dragon frozen in the middle air and in the middle of a rictus, humourless, is stiffened in off-season rigor, promised riches nowhere to be seen. the sand around it’s rumpled by a thousand footprints, but its gaze is fixed inflexibly ahead. behind it helter skelter, wheel, and roundabout, still brightly hued though faded in the winter sun, stand in the selfsame state of hibernation, statues of their lively summer selves.

GPH11: "Dragon Ride" (very much a first draft)

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The words ignited as they sped through me; they scorched my tongue, they charred my palate, singed my cheeks and lips, and spurted out to blister, burn, and sear. The words turned icy as they crawled through me; gums and uvula and teeth flash-froze and shattered, sending shrapnel in a sharp and stinging cloud to slice and slash and lacerate. The words frothed acid as they flowed through me, dissolving throat and jaws, splashed deep within me just as much as spitting outwards, eating through soft tissue, leaving victim and attacker scarred. Those scars have healed now into channels down which novel thoughts can flow and grow.

"Hoplogia".

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We’re all sinking into
Debaucherous tendencies
Deepening our debts
Dreading the day something comes
To collect interest

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A broken fount spewed
Dejected darkness into
An old broken sink
This viscous effluent stained
The seat of my soul

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Bountiful wetlands
dewberry vines climb
near gnawed branches,
ripening blackberries
and scattered cherries glow
like fruity gems
beneath the sunrays,
willow thicket’s potluck feast
for squirrels and thrushes.
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From fields of scars, I press seeds into pain,
Where silent tears once fell like endless rain,
Petals rise where broken dreams were sown,
A garden of hope from wounds once known.
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My poem called Daily Life with You. … A clock’s second hand ticking. The scent of early morning coffee, someone’s car leaving their driveway, a long drive on a rainy day. Clocking into work before sunrise. Conversation echoes in empty spaces, the sky’s golden canvas, the hum of tires on a highway at night. Silence after a door shuts. A surprise smile— so true, with fast-food dinner for two, eating beneath the moon… with you.

Done with doctor appointments for the time being… finally 😭🎉

Still have another in 3 months though 😑

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I felt like I needed to write, well, something else this week for #PoemsAbout #EdgeOfKnowing
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Guilt is for the poor
A gold pen rewrites the crime
Blood dries on the desk

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To us 🥂

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She would advise through
A private consultations
Each session sounded
Like ecstatic exhaustion
Singing songs with flesh

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Saccharine singing
Charmed ignoramuses to
Never realise
The sinister nature of
This sweet sirens call

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where rocks rear through white foam I strain to make out what the rapid river says. I have no sense of what the whirling waters feel: joy? blank terror? apprehension? bubbling belief that soon they will achieve nirvana, all desires snuffed out in union with the sea? each pint of river drawn into a glass can be picked out, be pointed at, be reïdentified — but pour it back into the flow, and it is gone. no water’s gone, but that pint’s gone. there’s no “that pint”, in fact, unless the “that” points back into the past — the inaccessible, unalterable, unattainable. I make no contact with the river’s essence, for it’s far too alien for me to understand its constant babble: “here I go!”? …

"What the Waters Feel".

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When you and I are no more, the very concept of love and connection will be re-studied, will be re-understood, endlessly. #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetryDaily #ArtOfWords #MicroPoetry #SkyPoets #WordedArt #BlueskyPoets #poem

If the rain is constant, then so shall be my showers, my pourings of praise, of adoration, of worship of you, sweetheart.#poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetryDaily #ArtOfWords #MicroPoetry #SkyPoets #WordedArt #BlueskyPoets #poem

Every woman before you I have loved, but the love I shall immerse you in, none have known, none can bear, none can return. #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetryDaily #ArtOfWords #MicroPoetry #SkyPoets #WordedArt #BlueskyPoets #poem