I was challenged to write an "inverted haiku" (7-5-7), which proved more difficult than it seemed for someone accustomed to writing haiku or tanka.
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and then we melt together
two souls intertwine
slow dancing, love-drunk, timeless
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#vss365 #haiku #poetrysky #poet #poetry #writer
Anna and Clara got letters from friends and family quite often. Agnes did not get any letters, ever. Agnes claimed she didn’t care about letters, but it struck her flatmates as odd that someone so personable had no correspondence.
#vss365
Letters on the conscience
Delicately they combine
If I close my eyes I see them
High upon fluffy clouds
Written along the sky in love
These butterflies they make
Do flutter here in my heart
Making me feel so beautiful
#vss365 #letters
poll is live! #vss365 crowd, please consider my interactive story~
today: is this clockwork a soldier? a butler? or too broken down to matter?
*cross-posted on the BirdSite (same username/pinned post)
polls are glitching, but please vote&comment over there 💖
“I think we need to stop playing Scrabble around your cat,” he said.
“Why?” his girlfriend asked, “Has she been stealing the #letter tiles?”
“I wouldn’t say stealing,” he replied “more like borrowing them.”
“What?”
“See for yourself.” He pointed at the tiles that spelled FEED ME OR ELSE. #vss365
childhood biscuits shaped
like sweet alphabet letters
swirling words in milk
#vss365 #letters #haiku #writing #writingcommunity #micropoetry
I'd #sing to the #blind if not #offer my #arm to #stand like a #pure #plant near a #man of #letters with #pen in #hand and #ink #bank by a #water #sink. #Grant me the #present and I'll never #bly but #trek out of #bed to #rose thorned #veld.
#vss365 #Afrikaans #English #cognate
@redsaid1.bsky.social
Her letters could have been penned by Plath. I sometimes forget that the intended recipient isn't me, but the dead guy on my delivery route.
#vss365 #vss #letters
I wrote you a letter on pale green paper, folded it into a luna moth, released it into the night sky. When we met, you were bathing in a lake, all quicksilver and refraction. This isn't love, waxing and waning. I'm drawn to you like the tide, but I wouldn't dare pen love letters to the moon. #vss365
Tweezers pick them up by the scruff
carefully not to pluck off bits
placing them next to each other
needles holding them down, struggling
ink plotter crushing them, turning
emotions into #letters #vss365
Gaps Letters fall away like shingles Let s all s in On an abandoned house Many times Ma y i any me My meaning changes With the erosion of ink The lack of retrospect re spect The reason suffers gaps The distance grows From paper to pen The son suffer s As the letters fall away he let s fall
#vss365 #letters
#poetry #skywriter #bkueskypoet
This one needs a little work, but I really like the premise. I am posting it as is, but will reform it with more thought and polished edges later.
So here is a #poem...
Typesetting. B-l-o-o-d-y--h-a-r-d--w-o-r-k-! Image: flickriver.com
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Lies ricochet as
Hot-lead letters, racked and rolled,
Report daily truths?
#vss365 #letter #haiku
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I see
It is now
That time
When all
We have left
Are #letters
#PennedReveries #vss365 #poetry
#Rich #hurry up push my #swing
Your kid stole my wee #child's #swing
Hey don't #swing your #fork around
Swung on the #swing, #birdsongs ring
Postman #swings his #letter sack
#Mum used to swing in her day
#7syllablesentence
#2wordprompt
#WIPSnips
#thingstowriteabout
#OurPoetryX
#vss365
#inkmine
Large oak on a field of grass with sunlit green leaves.
She believed nothing
happened for a reason,
but she didn’t need reasons.
She only needed to
read #letters under the arms
of that old oak
while fireflies sang anthems
to the river stone
and he
softly kissed
the pocket of light
between her shoulders.
#vss365
📷 Pixabay
our old love #letters
frayed after forty five years
edges curled like tired smiles
the ghostly ink still
whispers your name
even torn they pulse
as warm as embers
proof that love
once written
never really fades
#vss365
*love letters from my girlfriend (now wife of 41 years)
They’d taught us everything, how to talk with thoughts through their tech, how to control machines with their dreams. Everything but how to read and write. We forgot the word secret, the delight in private, the wonder of intimacy. But we found the alchemy that was #letters and we made gold. #vss365
#vss365 ✉️ #letters
Leo's doing his very best.
After 2K yrs of suppressing
the suppressed, we should
have guessed "science" or
at least "zero misogyny"
where "zero water" is 8
or 9 letters and a space.
Difficulties w numbers is
easily overcome: 01234.
To be the baddest girl in
heaven copy/paste 5867.
#vss365 #letters
When I was missing.
To Let. I was young and needed the toilet. I said, Look, we can go there, I don't have to wait. And my parents said no, those signs say To Let. They were everywhere. I asked what To Let means. They said it means To Let. Translation: You'll Just Have To Hold It
a moment near certainty
flushing, fleeting
what an Earth daughter
keeps fire with
ear belly low
near a spring flow
bodies stretched into coming day
without letters or words
what we knew to smell
with our eyes closed we remember
what we look like
when nothing spoken is ever needed #vss365
#Letters were out of promotion
He never became a dad and
She a mom but vainly enjoyed
Life in its worst ways and hatred
Everyday she still walked with the dwarf, everywhere who was not cancer affected not any disease at all but hail and healthy but still cheated him to the core !!!
#vss365
Sad moments come
in a sudden rush
that Oscar I never won
That Nobel peace prize
that slipped from my hands
All those love letters
that all got returned
That kiss you spurned
that dream that got crushed
but now in my hands is
this Anvil of joy
and can use it
to shake sadness away
#vss365 #letters
folk lore
hunger grows outside sate
hunger has a face in the dark we often
convince ourselves never has to be seen
being wrong a birth wear
being wronged a birthed ware
suffixes are letters mindful of a palm begged sky
night light pollutes
star bled timeless death
things we wish for #vss365
From the #vss365 jukebox, this is Box Full of #Letters, one my favorite Wilco songs.
youtu.be/7gyZw5tvAhI?...
#MusicSky
Evelyn was known as a woman of #letters. Every day, she sat in front of her garden window, lilac scented paper in hand.
She had a lovely long quill and stamp her niece gave her.
It was such a delight to write her poison pen notes with them. #vss365
#vss365 #letters #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
My 📸/painting click on photo
...their eyes grow wide,each letter #written down, who would they marry?Tom, Dick or Harry?The portal opened&they ran in fright. "MURDER"SHE #WROTE
An m charges
from the right,
while a t attacks,
holding its stroke
like a lance.
An i throws its
dot at his opponent,
a shy b, who turns
around & runs away
as a d.
I hope, learning
to read & write
doesn't feel like
an onslaught
of #letters to
my students.
#vss365
What is the short,dark & stout 5x man doing ? Is he reading #letters of his wife ? Is he not worried about the heir,his wife din't produce all these years.Or was he very badly cheated !!! Then obviously he needs to give her divorce.A wolf of greater insanity kills all others for its thirst. #vss365
