Romantic love won't
cut it anymore so I
turned to the age of
Romanticism — finding
beauty and truth in nature

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Pisces Moon's soft glow
suffusing transcendental
love — more than one kind
everlasting ocean feeds
starborn souls' entwined fates

#sōlseed #tanka #tankaset #poetry
#poetrycommunity

drifts of snow around
sleek tube cutting trough whiteness
eating many miles
like she wants to eat the rich's
inappropriate fortunes

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built on worker's backs
inheritance no virtue
moneyblindness brought
a promise of streamlining
unsubscribed from their bullshit

#poetry #tankaset #tanka

hitchhiker on the mourning train passing through stale beer and coke cans seventh hour bells intoned frozen feet banished footsteps ○●○ vanished memories hovering neon circlet death in the hallway not mine — white bamboo shrine calls forgotten demons released ♡ matthias geh ♡

🦋 hitchhiker's farewell 🦋

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specks of light adorn
the shady valley beyond
mountain ranges merely
hiding the sun from reproachful
eyes as if their snow capped tops

could tame its fire
breathing coolness from beneath
wellspring of sorrow
planting mourning in tranquil
meandering rivulets

#tankaset #poetry #vss365 adorn
#tanka

illusion of time
keeping willful prisoners
structures that only
bind you without providing
won't last the test of ages

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your connections
run along deeper courses
smallest of banter
fed by understanding's springs
may raise them into kinship

#tanka #tankaset #morningmusings
#poetry

A collage of a store window showing a portrait of Frida Kahlo. Also two hands, one cradling a holographic butterfly sticker the other one a holographic crescent moon sticker. Stickers bought from http://liquidlight.art/

laminated love
liberated reflections
lifelong connections
looking at his precursors
laments of the past fading

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laments of the past
love travelling across stars
lookout of lost souls
leaving emptiness behind
lore of old is rekindled

#tanka #tankaset #collage #photography

analogue paper
suffused with soft candlelight
crackling pen disrupts
afternoon's quiet hours
thoroughly relayed minutes

***

eldritch court session
cutting daybreak — some moments
subtracted from dawn
light saved within fleeting cloaks
eyes glowing red in the dark

#tanka #tankaset #spooktober

skipping some pebbles
watch them rippling the surface
images emerging
corruption rotting the lands
wishing upon sacred flames

***

write courage into
spaces needing compassion
wild thoughts unshackled
skulls blaze determination
feeding Liberty's eyes

#tanka #tankaset #poetry

strange days for poets
truth and beauty distorted
black mirrors feeding
delusions and defiance
words — seeds of resilience

***

praise cannot change us
thriving on deep resonance
muses communing
diving back into the stars
ancient forge of consciousness

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tingling on my tongue
a cluster of bitterness
drops to dull my brain
sharpness losing its edges
loudness becomes bearable
***
cluster of wild thoughts
intrusive maws are defanged
chemically coralled
so my mind may know some peace
the neurotypical way

#poetry #wildwalkprompt #tanka #tankaset

killing the account
my accountability
data trade on hold
covetousness to possess
things tailored to fill a hole
*
leaving metaverse
reclaiming mental health, choice
by necessity
free from algorithmic hold?
lost time trap, less to worry

#tanka #tankaset #meta #poetry #poetrycommunity

Singularity
reaching the threshold of noise
impatience flaring
time to end, killer of stars
requiem for the endless

#prompt #fallen #poem #tankaset

black smoke
of nations disunited
—aflame
over tariffs and Teslas
our lying leadership

many care less
their homes are still intact
the oligarchy
waiting like giant vultures
while we choke in the smoke

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