Brenna Twohy, "What I've Learned About Trauma". (lemmy.world)
worded_art, to poetry
Jeffrey McDaniel, "The Soul Farmer". (lemmy.world)
Adam Clay, "Strange Animal Facts". (lemmy.world)
Ocean Vuong, "The Last Prom Queen in Antarctica". (lemmy.world)
Brenna Twohy, "To The Guy In The Back Of The Room Complaining About Listening To Another Rape Poem". (lemmy.world)
russellcarisse, to poetry
literalgrill, to poetry To every person who has shown me kindness
To every person who has injured me
I will cherish and nurture the memory of you until the flame of my life is snuffed out of existence: Equally
For you have made me, and I can only hope for better or worse I enriched the making of you as well
literalgrill, Gotta remind motherfuckers I'm an award winning poet sometimes. Gotta keep that killer poetry street cred up!
geraineon, @literalgrill 10/10 poem!
Aphelion, to poetry In the space between
Dream and awake
You dissipate
And I coalesce
Less sure of my
Being real
Without you.
Tennessee Williams, "We Have Not Long To Love" (lemmy.world)
stevencudahy, to poetry hand-me-down threadbare heirlooms
of common sense and stock phrases
well intentioned tools to short-circuit
critical thoughts
as if we're afraid to be asked or ask
questions we have to think about
too scared to admit we don't know
and that not knowing is default human
but even more afraid to say the clean thing -
not having time to try to find out
is what left us for dead
before we rose, zombie#Sedoka #Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - parent.
seanpatrick.phd, to poetry The mind's a needle that draws a thread:<br></br>the body, knotted in the head,<br></br>secured by axons to its guide.<br></br>They dart through fibers woven tight<br></br>and restless seek the other side<br></br>of veils they've fashioned on their travels.<br></br><br></br>As they cross paths, they bind and tangle,<br></br>and jockey for the perfect angle<br></br>to sew a stitch of their design<br></br>on a sheet of endless space and time;<br></br>but when the thread cuts free at last, <br></br>the needlepoint’s all that remains:<br></br>the fabric of the veil unravels.<br></br>
russellcarisse, to poetry blossoms
my promised
harvest#poem #poetry #haiku #bloomscrolling #photo #photography #rural
insiderua, to poetry Ukrainian 🇺🇦 🔒 Павло Коробчук сьогодні написав вірш – Харків, приліт, видавництво Віват
#poetry #vivat #kharkiv #RussiaIsATerroristState #Ukraine #literature #war
insiderua, Ukrainian The death toll in Kharkiv has risen to 7, and the number of injured to 23. The enemy had previously struck with S-300 and S-400 missiles. Russians hit #Kharkiv and Lyubotyn with 15 missiles at once
stevencudahy, to poetry your eyes and the pour of time
through my breached defences
i am uncertain of my edges now
aware of the mixing swirl
of a cosmos in which we are the dance
of endless restless smallness
we are the coalescence of waveforms
mingling in a glance
itself embroiled in the everything
a sharing of the tales light tells
a charge, a spark in the shadows#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 10 May 2024 - glance.
stevencudahy, to poetry when the wind sings
and the trapped sails drift
then turn
wheat ears between the stones
serving the gritty rumble
and nearby in the sun
we are testing the dirt
for the survival hope of small insects
and whether we will dash them
or offer mercy#Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - ground.
stevencudahy, to poetry the blade isn't an answer today
wasn't an answer then, for me
heated to sterile because the drama of fire
licking the steel was cinematic
though predictably gauche
and i choked
lacking blood enough
to restore the scorched sands to life
lacking the conviction
i could ever be clean enough
to not infect the knife#Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for the prompt - sterile.
Lena Moses-Schmitt, "Dear Future Me". (lemmy.world)
davemark, to poetry One of my favorite all time poems, apropos of nothing:
"Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality."-- Emily Dickinson
eurobubba, @davemark … which can be sung to the tune of the Gilligan’s Island theme, as someone recently pointed out.
davemark, @eurobubba I will never not hear that now!!! 😝