Taryn✍️🥄🇨🇦

One thing about having severe epilepsy, you will never live alone. You are safest with people around, so accept community with open arms.

#vss365 Sept 10 bearable #disability #spooniepoetry #painpoetry #chronichealth #pain #tanka #skypoetry #micropoetry #writingcommunity

#vss365 wrapping #horrorpoetry #darkpoetry #deathpoems

Black text on gradient blue-grey background reads: “Ocean View by Taryn Smith Temperamental wind Powerful but changeable Open emotion Reminiscent of my own Pain washing in with the tides”

September, back to #vss365 #power #skypoets #queerpoets #disabledpoet #chronichealthpoetry #tanka #poetrycommunity

🤪😁😂💕Hilarious but also eww what an image hahahah! Hope this one didn’t come from personal experience lol 😆

A blue-purple camas flower with a green centre is open against a background of vibrant green leaves and grass and some light brown dirt. Some closed buds surround the opened flower.

The Un-Masquerade
By Taryn Smith

Unpack all the masks
Today our true spirits dance
Together freely
Erasing expectations
Ourselves new and green again

#vss365 #self #mentalhealth #tanka #dailyhaikuprompt #green #writingcommunity #queerpoet

Black text on light grey background reads “Dark Thoughts By Taryn Smith Uncomfortably numb She sat alone in her room Safe from the screaming Terrified of her thoughts She tried drowning them out Momentarily distracted She was in a nightclub dancing Til’ the screams were directed at her: “Turn that racket down” Rocking herself in silence Hoping for tears that never came She saw the razor in her bathroom.. Just then a text from Sam: “Miss you, wanna FaceTime?” “Sam, I almost slashed my leg again!” “Bestie! Your parents?” “Dunno..I just wanted to feel something”

#vss365 #slash TW: #selfharm *Please reach out for help if you or someone you know is at risk of harm. In 🇨🇦 this is a solid list of helplines: findahelpline.com/countries/ca 💕 #mentalhealth #poetry #writingcommunity #queerpoet

Solid idea, I will look into it, thank you😊

Aggravating! This happens to me frequently, as my disabilities are hidden until they’re not. I’m getting better at telling people when I’m crashing, but it can be uncomfortable when I don’t know the people very well. Here for you if you need someone to talk about it. Hard to find people who get it

Thank you for the stimulating prompts and your own writing; I have been feeling very inspired and excited to write lately. It’s been great to have an islander as the host.

Black text on a white background reads: “The Shift by Taryn Smith. The tingling sensation Crept across my surface Like tiny pin-pricks Deeper Into my heaving body Under the pain I found excitement A deep desire for change Layer by layer I shed my old skin To embrace me”

#vss365 shed #queerpoetry #writingcommunity #somaticpoetry #skypoets #poetry

Oops! This was meant for the business page. Leaving it because it’s June and why not jazz up the poetry page with a pride post! ☺️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Pride Month everyone! #loveislove #transrightsarehumanrights🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Poem in black text on white background reads: “Water Spirits by Taryn Smith. Falling in love Like slow streams With their own ecosystems Thriving There was beauty In our waters connecting And fear of losing old shapes Of water Beloved babbling brooks Special fishing spots To something unknown and great Together we explore and create New shapes Hidden hot springs Unexplored shores Falling in love with all of our shapes

Two roaring streams connect over wet green mossy rocks. Evergreen trees stand tall on the far right side of the water.

#vss365 shape #queerpoet #westcoastpoetry #queerlove Thank you to @loopypeanut.bsky.social for the photo. #littlequalicumfalls

Beautifully put! I would love to see more of all of this too!

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 11:
I’d love to see more asexual rep!

#LGBTQWriteAThon June 11:

I'm always eager for more non-binary rep!

Question for my fellow poets who write on iPhones: I see a lot of poets uploading poems with a simple plain background. It looks nice and you can get more words in then you can on Bluesky. I come from Android world, so I’m wondering how best to do this on my iPhone. Any thoughts appreciated! ☺️

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Dedicated to everyone having complicated feelings around Father’s Day. ❤️‍🩹

🚨This is my 1st time using a third party app to share poetry, so if you can’t see the whole thing, after clicking, please let me know!
vss365 scrape #queerpoetry #familytrauma #rawpoetry #queerpoet #poetry #writingcommunity

@loopypeanut.bsky.social

A light skin hand wearing a pink, yellow and blue beaded bracelet, with the letters “PAN” for Pansexual on three of the beads is holding hands with a darker skinned hand. The darker skinned hand has a black ring with red on the inside of the ring, worn on the middle finger. Black rings worn on the middle finger of the right hand as pictured, are a symbol of asexuality.

“They Thought We Were Lesbians”
The vulnerability of skin
Of going deeper than that
To discuss attraction
And gender
In a parade
Or a festival
At the risk of backlash
From both inside
And outside the community
When I flash my Pansexual bracelet
Holding the hand
Of my Asexual love

#vss365 #pride

Cool mist o’er the strait
Chilled to the bones we sail through
Ocean orbiting
Tickled by salty sea spray
Eyes set on the horizon
#verseve #poetrychallenge #temperature #vss365 strait #dailyhaikuchallenge spray #tanka #poetrysky #westcoastpoetry

Floating amongst stars
Curious of earthlings
The splinters of ourselves
That we toss, leave uncared for
When they don’t fit with our world

#vss365 splinter #tanka #micropoetry #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity #SkyPoets #queerpoet #aliens

It’s dark here
Take my hand
You won’t get lost
Tell me about this place
That keeps pulling you back
Sleepless nights
Fear lives here
Hiding around corners

BRAIN GLITCH
Blinding pain
I help you out of the dark place quickly
Running to fight my pain

#vss365 #poetrysky #chronichealth #mentalhealth

From my 3am battle royale with a migraine this morning:

Passing through my brain
Like stabbing knives and ice picks
Overwhelming pain
Building my immunity
With mindfulness strategies

#dailyhaikuprompt passing
#vss365 immunity
#tanka
#tankathursday
#micropoetry
#blueskypoetry
#chronichealth

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Creeping frustration
I feel the warming starting
Take a breath they said

#dailyhaikuprompt warming
#senryu
#mentalhealth
#writingcommunity
#micropoetry
#poetrysky

Gritty and spicy
Tasty family secret
Pure joy in a jar
My grandma’s Russian mustard
A spread to be remembered

#dailyhaikuprompt mustard
#vss365 joy
#tanka
#germanmennoniteancestry
#poetrysky
#micropoetry
#writingcommunity

Constant sound of claws
The Unkindness is preparing
Through the frost a nest
A new generation born
Better late than nevermore

#dailyhaikuprompt frost
#vss365 life
#micropoetry
#naturepoetry
#horrorpoetry
#poetrysky
#tanka
#edgarallanpoefans

Why not just a piece of plywood and call it a slide😉?